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...I think realistically, it's too late to do anything about it (unless he is indeed mentally worse off than he appears). Switching to Harris now is more likely to cause chaos than to be successful, despite a couple of recent polls showing her doing a bit better against Trump. I know what the GOP will do to her and unfortunately, I know it'll probably work with too many voters.

I'm not happy with him. I'm not happy with the people around him. I could tell he was going downhill in the last year, but it wasn't clear to me until the debate how much worse he is than even a year ago (and no, I don't think he was "just tired". He really hasn't been that impressive in any attempt to look better since the debate - he sounds defiant, but he appears to unfortunately consider that better). I didn't like this with Reagan and I'm not going to act like it's magically fine because it's my party doing it. He clearly is worse off than "in theory, any President could die tomorrow". I seriously, seriously, seriously doubt he will be capable of being President by the beginning of 2029, when this term ends. I'm okay essentially voting for Harris to take over at some point, but that's not how it was supposed to happen. We are where we are because he either is being misled by the people around him or because his own ego would not allow him to stop at one term.

At the end of the day, I'd vote for a rotting corpse over Trump. This is the third time in a row the GOP has forced us into a corner where it's "democracy or facism". But I'm worried that he has been dealt a serious enough blow - and sure, the press is less focused on Trump's failings and overly fixated on Biden's, but that doesn't change that this is largely a self-inflicted wound on Biden's part - that not enough people will agree with me. At the same time, I don't think Harris is necessarily a realistic option at this stage. It's too late. It's become very clear he should not have run again after it was already too late.

However, if WaPo is even a little bit right, one thing that needs to stop right ****ing now is Hunter Biden anywhere NEAR the WH. He has NO business in official affairs. He's a convicted felon. He's completely untrustworthy. Pushing other aides aside and surrounding Biden with his family does nothing to assure anyone that Biden is really okay. If Hunter has taken on more of a WH role, that needs to stop, and it needs to stop as of yesterday. That shows absolutely terrible judgment on Biden's part and it does nothing to make anyone feel better about him.