You Gotta Go Joe

We’re now 123 days from Election Day and, yet, do we know for sure who will actually be on the ballot? 

In the afterglow of last week’s debate, the discourse has all been surrounding President Biden’s immediate future and if he will actually remain in this race. Bill O’Reilly claimed over the weekend that he will not. In fact, he reported that the decision was already made. 

“The decision has been made that the President will quit the campaign,” O’Reilly tweeted on Sunday. 

And the betting market has followed his lead. On Tuesday, Biden was a -188 favorite to be the Democratic candidate in the election, well ahead of Kamala Harris (+500). But in less than 24 hours, that shifted. As Harris became the favorite on Wednesday, at +110 odds, compared to Biden now at +200. A HUGE Shift. Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, remained lagging behind at +600 (and might be focusing on his new podcast with a former NFL running back instead). 

Additionally, a third of Democrats polled by Reuters this week suggested that Biden should drop out from the race. Plenty of politicians on that side of the aisle have also called for Biden to drop out. Major media outlets have, too. 

And, according to the New York Post, Biden has told those close to him that he WILL drop out if his campaign events don’t go well in the coming days, following his uninspiring performance at last week’s debate. 

Meanwhile, his advisor, in a potential attempt to curb the flames, slammed this notion and claimed that President Biden is “staying in this race.”

If President Biden DOES drop out of the race, if he IS deemed unfit for re-election, then shouldn’t we wonder why he’s even running our country in the first place? Shouldn’t he just step aside all together? The fact that we’ve reached the point where this topic is even debated is probably enough to be concerned about the current leader (if you weren’t already).

Still, some are clinging to his recharged performance in North Carolina the day after the debate, holding onto hope that THAT is the real president. Not what we saw in Atlanta on national TV the night before. But Biden has become like a Clint Eastwood movie - you don’t know who might show up: the good, the bad or the ugly? 

As we celebrate our great nation’s independence, it’s a sobering thought to have to be so concerned with the mental ineptitude of our president. The next two weeks shall be very interesting.