The Weak Horse.

400,000 voters, at most.

"When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse." — Osama bin Laden.

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This is the Biden re-election campaign’s challenge. Whatever else he might be, Biden is now a weak horse. He’s no longer “young old,” as he was when he was vice president. He’s just old. He’s visibly frail and unsteady on his feet. He’s given to occasional “senior moments”. As the week progresses, he seems to become more verbally and physically “uncoordinated”. White House staffers breath a sigh of relief when Marine One whisks him off to Delaware for the weekend and a stress-reducing news blackout ensues.

It is the conceit of Team Biden that he is the Democrat most capable of defeating former president Trump in the 2024 general election. There’s little, if any, evidence for this. Donald Trump defeated Donald Trump in 2020. Biden had little, if anything, to do with it. He was simply the net that caught the jumpers. They weren’t jumping to Biden. They were jumping from Trump.