I think your timing lacks compassion and empathy. I'm really surprised at you. Could we let the guy leave with some grace? It was obviously hard for him to let go. He's human, and a man whose identity was tied to his career. I say this as a person who was pushed put of her job at age 71. I know how he felt.
Milking a story? The sitting President got dementia, did such a bad job at a debate that he was forced to resign. And Blue cultists want to keep their heads in the sand. Not even concerned enough on what happened to see why someone who can’t function longer than 30 minutes at a time was allowed to proceed for as long as they did.
Lol. Yes, it’s an important enough of a story to cover and find out how mentally gone was our President. When did he know it? He still is claiming he would win, which means either he forgot what his pollsters told him. Or he is just trying to keep Blue Anon happy. Because no one else is believing it
When does the info about trump and his abysmal cabinet picks start coming in? And you start analyzing what the future is going to be like? Like maybe when Hegseth has to decide if we should deploy an aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean sometime? Or what are the chances we can trust Tulsi Gabbard with the nation’s secrets when she meets with high level Russians? Or just how fast Kash Patel cycles through his Enemies List? I would respectfully suggest that a bit of forward thinking would make this a more relevant blog.
I love when people accuse you of going MAGA. Do they even pay attention to the fact that 90% of your subscribers are blue. Could you imagine if you did leave your left leaning-center position, blow right past centrist right, and go full MAGA? You'd be on Fox News every night and increase your readership threefold! Gotta love 'Merica, most of us are sheep.
I’d ask the rest of your subscribers for an opinion on that Chris if I were you. lol At least use Hegelian Critique, thesis, antithesis, synthesis in an attempt to be neutral. You don’t seem neutral or independent to me.
I’m a life-long liberal who despises Trump as a person as well as a politician. I think Biden is a good man, a great public servant and did well as president except for not stepping aside. Biden has faults and while I understand why he did it, he screwed the democrats by running again. I think Chris is 100% independent, calling balls and strikes. I don’t always agree with his analysis but I never doubt his journalistic integrity.
Biden may be a good man, but he was never very bright even at his peak. This is a guy who finished the bottom 9% of his non-elite law school class. Go back and watch his shameful performance in the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings, and you will get a clue as to how bad he was all those years ago. His participation in the conspiracy to hide his condition and steal from all Democrats the ability to pick a credible candidate via a robust primary election process is shameful.
There is absolutely no way that Kamala Harris should have been the candidate if the Democrats had any interest in actually defeating Trump. And we see the result…
Don’t listen to him and others Chris! Every single time you write anything negative about the Dems their heads explode. Fine article but maybe a few Whoa Boys could have spiced things up!
And why shouldn't Biden be bashed? He's about to hand the government over to a dictator. He and his team had 4-8 years to make this guy go away and he failed miserably. That was his #1 job: keep Americans safe. FAIL!
While most of America, 67% of voting Americans who didn’t vote for Trump, in fact, are wondering just how incompetent the first felon president, Trump will be, you sound like Elon Musk. lol
Are you officially a right wing blog now Chris. lol
Americans are sick of politicians. The House will likely stop any Republican legislation from being passed. Especially if anything requires increasing the national debt. Republicans are likely to stop that themselves. lol
I doubt that your obsession is shared by most "voting Americans." I would agree that 67% of voting Americans are wondering if the Ravens will beat the Bills on Saturday.
With so much opposition, Trump is going to have a hard time getting support for any of his initiatives. There’s discussion in the media as to whether he has a mandate, when really Hitler was more popular with Germans in the 1930s after a decade of having his thugs beat up Germans he didn’t like.
Trump’s unpopularity isn’t getting much play in the media because the media owners are bribing him with millions of dollars. Rather than calling this out. And they are as unpopular as he is.
Data is data. Don’t you find it interesting that 30% of voting Americans who voted for Harris and 37% of voting Americans who didn’t vote at all = 67% of voting Americans who didn’t vote for Trump?
That’s a great data point to support the argument that Trump is very unpopular.
That means 33% ( okay, a little less because there were other candidates on the ballot) voted for the fat one. We do not know for sure who those 37% would've voted for if they had voted, so we cannot simply assume 100% of the 37% would've voted for Harris. Probably closer to half, so we are back to roughly a 50/50 split. That's the funny thing about statistics: the author can pretty much spin them in any direction they want to support a narrative.
Granted, there is intense opposition to Trump from online Progressives but those folks tend to overestimate their influence on the rest of the country. Most of America has moved on from the political season. Obviously Trump doesn't have a "mandate" but that doesn't matter. He has the Senate and the House. The only card that the Dems have is the filibuster. At the moment, Trump's main political problem is the right wing of his own party. I don't know why 37% of eligible people didn't vote in 2024 but, by historical standards, voter turnout was very high (see note below).
"In relative terms, voter turnout nationally in 2024 was 63.9 percent. That is below the 66.6 percent voter turnout recorded in 2020, which was the highest voter turnout rate in a U.S. presidential election since 1900. Nonetheless, turnout in 2024 was still high by modern standards. The 1960 election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon (63.8 percent) is the only other election in the last 112 years to exceed 63 percent voter turnout."
Its not what he knew or didn't know 2 weeks after the debate. I knew and every semi-conscious person knew 30 minutes into the "debate" that Joe was done. It had to have been clear to the senior WH staff, to the Cabinet, to his Campaign staff, to Kamala, and to Jill MONTHS before that he wasn't up to a second term.
The collective failure of the most seasoned and experienced Democrats not to be honest with Joe, with themselves, and with us is very disturbing.
Its time (frankly way the hell past time) for the Shumers, Jefferies, et al, to step aside.
And one last time Chris has to rip into President Biden as the president is going out the door. I'm reminded of Chris claiming he never thought he might be fired by CNN!
I'd agree it's likely option 2. Hence why I thought it was stupid for Harris to keep his campaign manager & team around - they were incompetent at best and more likely all about self-dealing. I don't know that she would have won with a better campaign team but she never had a shot with that crew.
I don't find your comments to be mean-spirited. I'm pretty old, and have never witnessed a presidential candidate needing to step out of the race late in the season. Like it or not, we do ourselves no favors by wondering just how much President Biden was 'handled' so that he was shielded from information and knew little about how poorly his polling numbers were *before* the disastrous debate. No candidacy is going to recover from last-minute, changes like we saw.
I am well aware that Trump has been exposed repeatedly as a vicious, amoral, incompetent narcissist, yet his base loves him more and more because he seems 'tough,' even if he's not making sense. I'm well aware that we are operating with a terrible double standard here, and that pledging fealty to one person is a recipe for disaster. But it does not change the fact that Biden's frailty and stubborness help create the perfect storm that enable Trump to seem more presidential.
That's clearly not true, if you've bothered to listen to Trump over the past 10 years. This is my big problem with you and the media you clearly consume. Even confronted with a barrage of proven lies, schoolyard immaturity, and blatant incoherence, you will not criticize Trump. A lot of us on the other side have openly condemned Biden and those who supported a false narrative, while you make unfounded accusations with never a moment of honest reflection on what you've chosen for the country. I know this observation falls on deaf ears, but sometimes the hypocrisy is just too thick.
No hypocrisy. Do you remember when President Trump nearly slipped on a slick ramp at the military academy after a speech? MSM was acting like he had lost it then. Go back and watch it’s hilarious and then remember all of JBs senior moments and 🦗
Media would be all over President Trump if he did 1% of the goofy stuff we’ve seen JB do for years now….. Chris is right, lots more stories coming out very soon, like next week
But President-elect Trump is perfectly fine. There are no issues with his cognitive skills. We would have sailed through Covid had he been reelected. And sure…every President creates a White House Blacklist and name calls whenever he can. I guess the former presidents were absent on the day those classes were held. We normalize his behavior while stripping Biden’s down to his soul.
I believe a previous NYT article mentioned that Biden's staff was keeping negative information from him. My guess is they were rationalizing it to themselves as trying to prop us a house of cards the best they could. This recent NYT article implies Biden had significant questions about whether Harris was a candidate that could actually win. That also likely played into his decision making.
Well yes, Biden's staff would probably be looking for jobs with a new candidate running. The chance of keeping their jobs is better with the horse they were already riding.
I'm speculating but i think it was more than just keeping their jobs - they probably saw a Trump victory as catastrophic and had to decide which of two bad hands to play, and how best to play that hand.
I think your timing lacks compassion and empathy. I'm really surprised at you. Could we let the guy leave with some grace? It was obviously hard for him to let go. He's human, and a man whose identity was tied to his career. I say this as a person who was pushed put of her job at age 71. I know how he felt.
We are talking about the president of the United States, not some volunteer work at an elder care facility.
But you weren't vying to run the country, in opposition to the dire threat of Trump II.
Pres Biden literally just told an interviewer he thinks he would have beaten Trump. I love the man. However, the denialism is strong in him right now.
Not nearly as awful and scary as the next four years are going to be for our country and the world.
Talk about milking a story.
Yes
We know he didn't know or acknowledge it.
We got it.
Did you hear the joke about the alcoholic vying to be Secretary of Defense?
It goes like this, "just give me the job and I promise I'll stop drinking!"
That's one worth delving into.
Milking a story? The sitting President got dementia, did such a bad job at a debate that he was forced to resign. And Blue cultists want to keep their heads in the sand. Not even concerned enough on what happened to see why someone who can’t function longer than 30 minutes at a time was allowed to proceed for as long as they did.
Lol. Yes, it’s an important enough of a story to cover and find out how mentally gone was our President. When did he know it? He still is claiming he would win, which means either he forgot what his pollsters told him. Or he is just trying to keep Blue Anon happy. Because no one else is believing it
Incoming blue maga going to gaslight Chris in these comments for telling cold hard facts
Chris’ constant Biden bashing makes him not independent lol
I am not "bashing" Biden. I am reporting and analyzing information as it comes in. That's the job. Always has been, always will be.
When does the info about trump and his abysmal cabinet picks start coming in? And you start analyzing what the future is going to be like? Like maybe when Hegseth has to decide if we should deploy an aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean sometime? Or what are the chances we can trust Tulsi Gabbard with the nation’s secrets when she meets with high level Russians? Or just how fast Kash Patel cycles through his Enemies List? I would respectfully suggest that a bit of forward thinking would make this a more relevant blog.
I love the meltdown! Please, more of this!
😂
I love when people accuse you of going MAGA. Do they even pay attention to the fact that 90% of your subscribers are blue. Could you imagine if you did leave your left leaning-center position, blow right past centrist right, and go full MAGA? You'd be on Fox News every night and increase your readership threefold! Gotta love 'Merica, most of us are sheep.
I’d ask the rest of your subscribers for an opinion on that Chris if I were you. lol At least use Hegelian Critique, thesis, antithesis, synthesis in an attempt to be neutral. You don’t seem neutral or independent to me.
I’m a life-long liberal who despises Trump as a person as well as a politician. I think Biden is a good man, a great public servant and did well as president except for not stepping aside. Biden has faults and while I understand why he did it, he screwed the democrats by running again. I think Chris is 100% independent, calling balls and strikes. I don’t always agree with his analysis but I never doubt his journalistic integrity.
Biden may be a good man, but he was never very bright even at his peak. This is a guy who finished the bottom 9% of his non-elite law school class. Go back and watch his shameful performance in the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings, and you will get a clue as to how bad he was all those years ago. His participation in the conspiracy to hide his condition and steal from all Democrats the ability to pick a credible candidate via a robust primary election process is shameful.
There is absolutely no way that Kamala Harris should have been the candidate if the Democrats had any interest in actually defeating Trump. And we see the result…
Agree 100%
TDS
TDS. Isn’t that insulting to the big fella?
Don’t listen to him and others Chris! Every single time you write anything negative about the Dems their heads explode. Fine article but maybe a few Whoa Boys could have spiced things up!
There is no such thing as blue maga.
Get off of Trump's meat.
Yeah, another Chris Cillizza’s daily post trashing Joe Biden
And why shouldn't Biden be bashed? He's about to hand the government over to a dictator. He and his team had 4-8 years to make this guy go away and he failed miserably. That was his #1 job: keep Americans safe. FAIL!
He’s literally reading reporting from the nyt ( dem leaning by the way)
You know what is "awful and scary"? The incoming trump administration...
While most of America, 67% of voting Americans who didn’t vote for Trump, in fact, are wondering just how incompetent the first felon president, Trump will be, you sound like Elon Musk. lol
Are you officially a right wing blog now Chris. lol
Americans are sick of politicians. The House will likely stop any Republican legislation from being passed. Especially if anything requires increasing the national debt. Republicans are likely to stop that themselves. lol
I doubt that your obsession is shared by most "voting Americans." I would agree that 67% of voting Americans are wondering if the Ravens will beat the Bills on Saturday.
With so much opposition, Trump is going to have a hard time getting support for any of his initiatives. There’s discussion in the media as to whether he has a mandate, when really Hitler was more popular with Germans in the 1930s after a decade of having his thugs beat up Germans he didn’t like.
Trump’s unpopularity isn’t getting much play in the media because the media owners are bribing him with millions of dollars. Rather than calling this out. And they are as unpopular as he is.
Data is data. Don’t you find it interesting that 30% of voting Americans who voted for Harris and 37% of voting Americans who didn’t vote at all = 67% of voting Americans who didn’t vote for Trump?
That’s a great data point to support the argument that Trump is very unpopular.
That means 33% ( okay, a little less because there were other candidates on the ballot) voted for the fat one. We do not know for sure who those 37% would've voted for if they had voted, so we cannot simply assume 100% of the 37% would've voted for Harris. Probably closer to half, so we are back to roughly a 50/50 split. That's the funny thing about statistics: the author can pretty much spin them in any direction they want to support a narrative.
It wasn’t even a 50/50 split lol. Of those that voted for Trump or Harris, Trump didn’t get 50% of the vote either.
All I’m saying is that 67% of voting Americans did not vote for Trump. That’s not good. It demonstrates unpopularity.
There may be a whole bunch of GenZ too young to vote yet who wouldn’t vote for Trump.
You can’t really spin 31% of Trump support from voting Americans into a 49% “mandate” for Trump.
So what you're really saying is 69% of voting Americans didn't vote for Harris. See how that works? Trump still wins.
Granted, there is intense opposition to Trump from online Progressives but those folks tend to overestimate their influence on the rest of the country. Most of America has moved on from the political season. Obviously Trump doesn't have a "mandate" but that doesn't matter. He has the Senate and the House. The only card that the Dems have is the filibuster. At the moment, Trump's main political problem is the right wing of his own party. I don't know why 37% of eligible people didn't vote in 2024 but, by historical standards, voter turnout was very high (see note below).
"In relative terms, voter turnout nationally in 2024 was 63.9 percent. That is below the 66.6 percent voter turnout recorded in 2020, which was the highest voter turnout rate in a U.S. presidential election since 1900. Nonetheless, turnout in 2024 was still high by modern standards. The 1960 election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon (63.8 percent) is the only other election in the last 112 years to exceed 63 percent voter turnout."
No they won’t, sorry to spoil it 4 u!
Yeah, probably not. But I'll be cheering for them. I'm a Chief's fan and I don't want to see the Bills.
For good reason. Josh Allen is a beast! Beat up my Detroit Lions w/o breaking a sweat!
Good luck!
I'd like an article about how Trump really deserves the credit for the cease fire. Everyone is acknowledging that but Biden.
Just a coincidence right b4 President Trump is inaugurated, yeah right…
Its not what he knew or didn't know 2 weeks after the debate. I knew and every semi-conscious person knew 30 minutes into the "debate" that Joe was done. It had to have been clear to the senior WH staff, to the Cabinet, to his Campaign staff, to Kamala, and to Jill MONTHS before that he wasn't up to a second term.
The collective failure of the most seasoned and experienced Democrats not to be honest with Joe, with themselves, and with us is very disturbing.
Its time (frankly way the hell past time) for the Shumers, Jefferies, et al, to step aside.
30 minutes? I knew 30 seconds in. Watching him approach the podium I knew we were screwed.
And one last time Chris has to rip into President Biden as the president is going out the door. I'm reminded of Chris claiming he never thought he might be fired by CNN!
Oh no, there are three more days. I doubt this will be the last one.
I'd agree it's likely option 2. Hence why I thought it was stupid for Harris to keep his campaign manager & team around - they were incompetent at best and more likely all about self-dealing. I don't know that she would have won with a better campaign team but she never had a shot with that crew.
She never really had a chance. Awful candidate
I don't find your comments to be mean-spirited. I'm pretty old, and have never witnessed a presidential candidate needing to step out of the race late in the season. Like it or not, we do ourselves no favors by wondering just how much President Biden was 'handled' so that he was shielded from information and knew little about how poorly his polling numbers were *before* the disastrous debate. No candidacy is going to recover from last-minute, changes like we saw.
I am well aware that Trump has been exposed repeatedly as a vicious, amoral, incompetent narcissist, yet his base loves him more and more because he seems 'tough,' even if he's not making sense. I'm well aware that we are operating with a terrible double standard here, and that pledging fealty to one person is a recipe for disaster. But it does not change the fact that Biden's frailty and stubborness help create the perfect storm that enable Trump to seem more presidential.
Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies
The whole thing was a house of cards!
Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies
VP Harris, Chuck S, Joe & Mika, media monsters NY Times, WAPO, CNNLOL, everyone associated with MSNBC!
Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies
Great job Chris calling it out for what it was, one gigantic Lie! 😎
If only everyone could be the bastion of truth and honesty that Donald J. Trump is! ;-)
If that was President Trump, the main street media would all be calling for the 25th amendment and you know it
That's clearly not true, if you've bothered to listen to Trump over the past 10 years. This is my big problem with you and the media you clearly consume. Even confronted with a barrage of proven lies, schoolyard immaturity, and blatant incoherence, you will not criticize Trump. A lot of us on the other side have openly condemned Biden and those who supported a false narrative, while you make unfounded accusations with never a moment of honest reflection on what you've chosen for the country. I know this observation falls on deaf ears, but sometimes the hypocrisy is just too thick.
No hypocrisy. Do you remember when President Trump nearly slipped on a slick ramp at the military academy after a speech? MSM was acting like he had lost it then. Go back and watch it’s hilarious and then remember all of JBs senior moments and 🦗
Media would be all over President Trump if he did 1% of the goofy stuff we’ve seen JB do for years now….. Chris is right, lots more stories coming out very soon, like next week
Sore winner is not a good look.
But President-elect Trump is perfectly fine. There are no issues with his cognitive skills. We would have sailed through Covid had he been reelected. And sure…every President creates a White House Blacklist and name calls whenever he can. I guess the former presidents were absent on the day those classes were held. We normalize his behavior while stripping Biden’s down to his soul.
I believe a previous NYT article mentioned that Biden's staff was keeping negative information from him. My guess is they were rationalizing it to themselves as trying to prop us a house of cards the best they could. This recent NYT article implies Biden had significant questions about whether Harris was a candidate that could actually win. That also likely played into his decision making.
Well yes, Biden's staff would probably be looking for jobs with a new candidate running. The chance of keeping their jobs is better with the horse they were already riding.
I'm speculating but i think it was more than just keeping their jobs - they probably saw a Trump victory as catastrophic and had to decide which of two bad hands to play, and how best to play that hand.
That may well be true, but it wasn't their right to make that decision. They played the wrong hand.