Why Can’t Joe Biden Win a Debate?

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Analysis: Tonight’s debate is Joe Biden’s best chance to refute questions about his age and capacity — or to make them bigger dangers to his nomination

Jeff Greenfield is a five-time Emmy-winning network television analyst and author.He can make the “let’s get real” argument that sweeping progressive New Deal and Great Society policies have been enacted when Democrats held landslide majorities in Congress; that without such power, even less ambitious efforts, like the Affordable Care Act, face serious headwinds and can come at a political price.

When Biden first ran for president more than 30 years ago, a combination of missteps forced him out of the race a year before the campaign began. He never walked onto a debate stage. In 2008, he was out of the race a day after the Iowa caucuses; and through the 2007 campaign, he was a marginal figure, with a poll rating roughly equal to former Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich.

You can get a better sense of Biden’s debate style by looking at the 2012 vice presidential debate with Paul Ryan. Coming just days after Obama’s zombie-like performance against Mitt Romney, the Full Biden was on display.wrote, “A high-energy performance—part angry bar-room debater, part condescending elder uncle, part comic mime artist—[that] frequently seemed to leave Paul Ryan overwhelmed.

Biden did effective work here, especially in rallying Democrats disheartened by Obama’s poor debate. But there’s a catch. This was a two-person debate with a flexible format permitting time to answer questions in some detail and a skilled moderator who knew how to guide a conversation. And since Biden was debating a Republican adversary, he was free to employ sarcasm, ridicule and an eyeball rolling response to Ryan..

 

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It seems so crazy that people mention Biden’s age but not Bernie’s. I’ve seen Biden on the campaign trail jogging but I’ve never and can’t imagine Bernie jogging. I just can’t figure why this happens.

Because he is senile

Only interested in what marwilliamson has to say. Marianne2020

democrats will self destruct...you can see it coming...they all have such a lust for power, that they are turning on each other like a pack of hyenas....sad.

You mean he’s not 77?

Just say NO!!! to old pale stale males.

Because his positions aren't popular.

Biden is the comfortable candidate. People know him and he’s been around for a long time. I’m not sure what he has really accomplished on his own during those years. He seems to be a decent person. A team player, very supportive but lacking the ability to stand out and lead!

KamalaHarris2020

Biden is 76 Sanders is 78

Biden needs to be very strong and clear be himself and fight back hard SymoneDSanders schultzohio AndrewBatesNC

lose the smile that makes him look like the Joker character in a Batman movie. It’s creepy.

You mean to tell us black people, poor people, underprivileged people, disenfranchised people, people of color, ADOS , give a damn about this frivolousness? I’ll be watching a candidate who has PLANS for these groups instead. We need bigtruth marianne2020 BoringWithoutHer

Looking for unity tonight.......not the free-for-all circus we saw in the 2016 Republican debates. Once it turns into a shouting match I'm using the remote.

Cause he’s tired

Too bad everyone will be watching football

Oooh, let's wager, i bet goawayjoe will make things worse... JoeBiden nojoe bidenbyebye

Senile

I'm more worried about his being beholden to the Chinese.

TheDemocrats have already chosen ewarren. SenSanders is saying the craziest things so Warren's crazy is hidden. Scary!

Will everyone just talk about climate change all night to avoid more inportant issues

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