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I’ve heard a lot of takes on Joe Biden’s Friday night interview with George Stephanopoulos but few are as hilarious as the take of Chris Cillizza, formerly of CNN.
„Joe Biden was totally fine in his interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Friday night“, he wrote Saturday.
That’s news to pretty much everyone who watched it, but okay.
In fairness, some context is needed here. Even though Cillizza says that Biden was „totally fine“ during the interview, he also says „totally fine isn’t good enough.“
Having watched the full interview, I think Biden did just enough to buy him some more time in the race but not nearly enough to convince people who watched the debate that he isn’t suffering a decline due to his advanced age.
Which is actually the worst-case scenario for Democrats.
Consider this: Had Biden been awful — like last week’s debate awful — it would have been beyond, er, debate that he needed to step down as the nominee.
But, he wasn’t! Which means that his campaign will (and already is) arguing that a) the debate was a one-off (despite ample good reporting that it was not) and b) he’s on the comeback trail.
