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From the very talented and refreshing young writer Gabe Fleisher, writing in his Wake Up To Politics Substack letter:

https://wakeuptopolitics.substack.com/p/the-biden-...

I now admit I'm extremely worried about the future of America, and, in light of the SCOTUS 6/3 immunity decision, now especially despondent that Trump will face ANY accountability for his actions around Jan 6, and his post-presidency classified document pilfering proclivities:

Fleisher concludes:

As the weeks roll on, the Biden team will only have less and less time to chip away at the image cemented on stage Thursday. Biden will not get any younger; reports examining his health status will only increase. Already, since Thursday, Axios has reported that Biden is typically only “dependably engaged” between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. (he is “more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued” outside of those hours), while The Wall Street Journal has revealed that Biden “struggled to follow the discussions” at a European Union-U.S. summit in October (Secretary of State Antony Blinken had to intervene and show Biden the talking points he should read from).

The Trump campaign will continue releasing ads like this one (https://x.com/danscavino/status/180655923445407336...), which is composed entirely of clips from the Thursday debate; every future miscue Biden makes will be magnified tenfold.

Biden and his advisers, who have long believed that the media overreacts to small events (especially when the events are interpreted as being bad for Biden), are gambling that this too shall pass, and that the debate won’t much move the polls in a contest where many voters have already priced in their thoughts on Biden’s age.

We have yet to see enough poll results to decide whether or not that they are correct. Fundraising data will also be important to watch in the coming weeks: the campaign is crowing about grassroots fundraising records notched since Thursday, but reportedly many big donors (without whom the campaign cannot survive) are considering pulling their funding.

Perhaps Biden’s polling and fundraising numbers will remain steady. But if they do begin to slip — or even if they merely don’t begin to improve — at some point, instead of plowing ahead as though everything if normal, Biden and his staff will have to unveil a strategy that answers the widely held concerns of voters, proving not just that their candidate can win — but that he can do the job for five more years, until he’s 86 years old.

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