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michaelflutist's avatar

There's a sense to what you're saying, but there's a very strong counterargument. Two, actually. One is still sitting in the White House till January 20, and the other is the multiply-convicted felon who tried to overthrow democracy and got people killed, yet was elected to a second term. If that kind of baggage can get you elected, I don't see how we can draw conclusions about where the American people would draw the line.

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Toiler On the Sea's avatar

Biden had been VP though . . .that completely changes the calculus. The two times he ran as "Senator Biden from Deleware" he didn't make it to Iowa.

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James Trout's avatar

Exactly. He doesn't become VP, he doesn't become President. Full stop.

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Zero Cool's avatar

And Biden was the first VP formerly a Senator to serve as POTUS since Lyndon Johnson in 1963.

The significant difference was that Biden ran for POTUS after having served as VP under Obama for eight years and having gone into academia for years after that. Johnson of course immediately became POTUS after JFK's assassination.

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michaelflutist's avatar

Totally true, but there's no question that he had a very long record to try to attack.

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