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“At his first meeting with Biden in Aspen Lodge, the president’s cabin,” Whipple writes, Klain “was startled. He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool.
“That evening Biden met again with Klain and his team, [Biden aides] Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti, and Bruce Reed. ‘We sat around the table,’ said Klain. ‘[Biden] had answers on cards, and he was just extremely exhausted. And I was struck by how out of touch with American politics he was. He was just very, very focused on his interactions with Nato leaders.’”
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This jibes with what JB's campaign said...after much travel and reports of an illness, JB was exhausted. Now compare his debate performance with his SOTU speech performance...including ad hoc shots at GOP members just 3 months before. He was definitely rested and on his game...plus he had delivered on much needed legislation as well as doing the right things to make our economy the best in the developed world as COVID abated.
His Debate was a debacle for physical reasons, but not because of dementia...no one with dementia could possibly have delivered that SOTU speech. It was the right decision for him to step aside...even though it is clear now that he would still be the better President as we speak...need I recite all the examples of Chaos that DJT is wreaking?