I missed this when I was off last week but it’s still worth talking about. Last Friday NY Times podcast host Ezra Klein made a sustained argument that Joe Biden is too old to run for president again and that, for the good of the party and the country, he should step aside.
Maybe you’re thinking that it’s too late for all of that but Klein is arguing that it’s not, that Democrats still have a better option which we’ll get to in a moment. But first, here’s a bit of his argument that Biden is too old to win this race.
This is the question Democrats keep wanting to answer, the question the Biden administration keeps pretending only to hear: Can Biden do the job of president? But that is not the question of the 2024 campaign. The insistence that Biden is capable of being president is being used to shut down discussion of whether he’s capable of running for president…
I was stunned…
