Nate Silver, formerly of 538, believes Biden should drop out.

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Trump should drop out, being a convicted felon, racist and traitor.

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Imagine how easy this would be if Democrats nominate someone that wasn’t in their 80s.

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Bots out in full force.

Everyone knows their vote and what they’re gonna do December of 2022 when we knew it would be these two again

Anyone who says anything else has a very clear agenda. I don’t care how old Biden looks I’m voting for the democratic party and the platform.

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While I agree with you about swing voters, there is a very large number of potential non-voters, sometimes known as the enthusiasm gap. People that believe that both options are the same, or that neither will affect their lives very much. There’s also the ones that think Trump can’t get re-elected, which of course is part of how he got there in the first place.

There aren’t a lot of people excited to vote Biden. But we’ll do it anyway, because we really don’t want to see more Trump. If I didn’t see Trump as a threat to democracy itself, I could understand people not voting at all.

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People wouldn’t be so concerned if he had a stronger VP.

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Like who?

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Nate Silver is 100% correct.

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Nate Silver was going to write this regardless of how Biden performed last night.

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He’s actually been quite reserved on the issue. While he’s acknowledged it as a risk, he had not reached this point until now.

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