I wouldn’t put it past Joe, Nancy, Barack, and Kamala that once he decided to drop out they chose to delay that until after the RNC and not tell anybody, even knowing the negative attention it brought on Biden. one thing we’ve always said on this board is that Joe is a master of political timing and his dropping out was done at the right time, maybe not a coincidence.
I don’t believe for a second he had any plans to drop out pre-debate.
Barack and Nancy seem like the only two competent political operators in the party, not sure where they’ve been since 2015 but well done here, may legit save the country.
When Trump answers questions about Vance with “historically the VP choice doesn’t matter,” that’s as close as he’s going to come to admitting that yes, he wishes he would have done otherwise.
Pete is correct in understanding that the proper response is to lead with a brief and slightly more professional rendition of “LOL no” and then going back to proactive messaging instead of giving multi-paragraph explainers as to why the criticism is off-base.