Welcome to today’s episode. In Evan Osnos’s New Yorker article “How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump,” we learn how Biden’s optimism clashed with reality. He awoke after Election Day convinced polls showed he would beat Trump, but his team said “no such polls existed.” Over four years, age chipped away at his energy, memory, and speech, culminating in a June fund-raiser meltdown at L.A.’s Peacock Theatre. As one guest recalled, “It was like watching someone who was not alive.” David Plouffe later lamented, “He totally fucked us,” after Biden waited too long to step aside. George Clooney even wrote that “the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time.” When Biden stumbled in the debate, Democrats lost faith, paving the way for Trump’s return. It’s a cautionary tale of political hubris, decline, and the costs of not confronting hard truths.
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