If you’re dizzy from all the media spin surrounding Jake Tapper’s and Alex Thompson’s book about Joe Biden, we don’t blame you.
The Democrats are trying very hard to make themselves look good in all of this, and the media are trying to cover their own butts for ignoring Biden’s decline in deference to the Democratic Party.
So, along comes David Weigel with yet another narrative spin on this whole mess:
The Favreau anecdote here — a sharp Biden in 2022, a lost Biden in 2024 — is the emerging Dem CW.
Basically that he started fading badly after the midterms, not unrelated to Hunter’s trouble. https://t.co/ap6SF6RbQc
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) May 13, 2025
Right.
This falls apart the second you remember Biden had media cue cards in April 2023.
By the way: losing elections and having a drug addict son don’t cause dementia.
Does that CW bail you out if you defended him running for a term that would have ended in 2029? No. But you are seeing this emerge as Dems explain why they didn’t worry until it was too late.
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) May 13, 2025
Oh, come on!
Democrats were 100% fine with Biden having a second term. They would’ve…
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