Pramila Jayapal
@PramilaJayapal
This is @JoeBiden prosecuting the case! He's on fire tonight in Detroit, articulating a great economic proactive agenda too so voters know what we are fighting FOR as well as against.

Acyn
@Acyn

Crowd chanting "Don't you quit"

Acyn
@Acyn

Biden: Unlike Donald Trump, I don't work for big oil. I don't work for big pharma. I don't work for the national rifle association. I work for you, the American people.

Acyn
@Acyn

Biden: It is time for us to stop treating politics like entertainment and reality TV.

Biden: Trump went bankrupt running a casino. I didn't think that was possible. Doesn't the house always win?

Biden: The people would rather talk about how I mix up names. I guess they don't remember that Trump called Nikki Haley Nancy Pelosi. Well, no. No more. Donald, no more free passes.

*read the judge's statement

Biden got in a lot of zingers. Talked about Trump's bankruptcies called him Putin's puppy and read the judge's state saying Trump committed raped. Crowd was very enthusiastic, shouting, We got your back. Four more years. Lock him up (about Trump). And more:

Biden has a really good crowd in Detroit

Biden's absolutely killing it tonight in Detroit. He is on fire!
#212 | POSTED BY YAV

Indeed:

Karen Tumulty
@ktumulty
Holy moly. This Biden ain't going anywhere. #motownisjoetown
7:40 PM Jul 12, 2024

The youth do not line Harris cause of the whole prosecutor thing
POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

The youth is not a monolithic vote. Harris has been speaking to college campus on the abortion issue. I think a lot of college-educated women will support her.

MFA:

Voters grasp Trump's world-historical levels of dishonesty. This week's Pew poll found that only 36 percent of voters view Trump as "honest." By contrast, 48 percent view Biden that way"not good enough, clearly, but Biden's large advantage here is especially notable given that as president, he has been subjected to a far harsher media spotlight for the last four years.

What the new Marist poll adds to this debate is the idea that voters see excessive lying as a serious problem in a president. Yet ask yourself this: How often is Trump's lying covered that way? Trump's dishonesty is rarely treated as a sign of his temperamental unfitness for the presidency. Biden's age, of course, is constantly covered as an important factor in determining his fitness for the office. Biden's age should be covered this way, to be clear. But so should Trump's relentless lying.

The key distinction here is between mental unfitness for the presidency (where Biden does very badly, relative to Trump), and temperamental unfitness for that majestic office. On the latter, Quinnipiac found earlier this year Biden does significantly better than Trump does, with an extraordinary 61 percent saying Trump is temperamentally unfit for the presidency.

Temperamental unfitness also matters! And honesty is central to that. So along these lines, what might coverage of Trump's serial lying look like?

FTA:

The poll asked: Which is more concerning in a president, someone who doesn't tell the truth, or someone who might be too old to serve? The results were lopsided: By 68 to 32 percent, respondents were more concerned about the lying than the aging. Given the relentless media focus on presidential age of late, that's simply remarkable.

While the poll doesn't directly compare Trump and Biden on that particular question, it also finds that 52 percent of Americans say Biden has the "character to serve as president," whereas only 43 percent say this about Trump. Fifty-six percent say Trump lacks the character to serve, which surely reflects public perceptions of Trump's dishonesty.

LOL:

Tim O'Brien
@TimOBrien
Biden hasn't used his presser to advise Americans to shine flashlights up their butts or drop nukes into hurricanes, said he'd like to be a dictator for a day or wage an all-out war on democracy, said he'd like to date his daughter or wants a big fat dose of global warming.

"Yelling and threatening is Trump's MO, not Biden's. Biden's way is much more subtle but just as impactful:"

Here's another example of what I mean:

Acyn
@Acyn

Biden: I mean, my schedule has been full. Where has Trump been? Riding around in his golf cart, filling out his scorecard before he hits the ball. Look, he's done virtually nothing.

Very true. We all know the one thing Democrats love more than a demented guy is an ANGRY demented guy yelling and threatening people. That explains the explosion in mentally ill blue cities doing exactly that. Also why the old guy yelling at kids to stay off the grass is so well respected and loved.
#62 | POSTED BY CLAUDIO

Yelling and threatening is Trump's MO, not Biden's. Biden's way is much more subtle but just as impactful:

Angry Staffer
@Angry_Staffer
"And by the way, I handed in all my notes"
Biden on talking to Putin - a clear jab at Trump confiscating the translator's notes.

Angry Staffer
@Angry_Staffer
No praising Hannibal.

No commenting on any woman's looks.

No rambling about sharks and batteries.

Just substance.

That's my president.

He is doing fine with the wonk, I wish he would attack more, we need pit bull joe
#29 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

I hope we will get more Fighting Joe too, but right after the Nato summit is probably not the best time to do that.

PS When I wrote to Biden, I also said I was hoping he would be more Fighting Joe when debating Trump. I said I thought he was trying to be too presidential with a someone who was a narcissistic liar and a bully.

I wrote to Biden after the debate and suggested he trust himself to speak more from the heart, less from the head, more ad libs, less facts and lists:

Angry Staffer
@Angry_Staffer
"And by the way, I handed in all my notes"

Biden on talking to Putin - a clear jab at Trump confiscating the translator's notes.

Biden is doing fine, I just wish he would be more direct, just say Yes I will be fine, I will kick Xi's ass, Putin's ass after I kick -------- ass
POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

We forget that Joe is a bit of a policy wonk, especially when it comes for foreign affairs.

This says it all:

Biden is on the national stage hosting all of our allies making sure that we have peace through NATO, and Donald Trump is hosting Victor Orban.

Agreed:

I wish he would use fewer statistics
Democrats love touting their records with long shopping lists of policies and achievements. I wish they'd learn that this is an area where less is more. Hit the high points.
#7 | POSTED BY RCADE

Uh-huh:

John Fugelsang
@JohnFugelsang
Wait - Joe Biden, who just ran the NATO Summit, accidentally said "President Putin," before quickly catching himself?

Oooh, that's bad. I guess I'm gonna have to vote for the guy publicly performing -------- on Putin instead.

Palmer Report
@PalmerReport
Only 5% of all House and Senate Democrats have called on Biden to drop out. The other 95% are publicly standing with Biden. Yet the media is running misleading headlines that make it sound like those two numbers are reversed. More -------- from the media.

Yep:

Pam Keith, Esq.
@PamKeithFL
I am watching POTUS POTUSING at the NATO summit, and there isn't a micron of me worried about him selling the United States down the river, embarrassing us or alienating our allies.

We take it for granted that he will do exceptionally well because he always does.

We FORGOT how terrifying, corrupt and inept the last one was. We have forgotten how our stomachs were in knots every time he was on an international stage.

From his lips to God's ears:

Chris Matthews: "In life, he lost his wife and daughter, and he found Jill. Now, who's he going to listen to, Jill or George Clooney? He's got poor people, minorities, Hispanics, labor, he's going to hold that base of the Democratic Party which he will need in November. 1/3

And I'm telling you, people are going to end up rooting for him in October. Chris Matthews: This elite-fashioned attack on him, they're going to pay for it. But in the end, they're going to end voting for him. 2/3

So I think Biden will be the Democrat is this race, the true Democrat. And he's going to get people to turn for him in October. It's going to be stunning. He is not quitting. He is not built to quit." 3/3

NAME SOMEONE ELSE OR STFU
#35 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

Calm down and knock off the all caps. I made a mistake and misread your post.

The one single person on the face of the earth that can beat ------- is Biden
#24 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS
You can't honestly believe that.
#33 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

Oh, sorry. I thought you said Biden was the only person who could't beat Trump. He may well be the only Democrat right now who can. A lot of anti-Trumpers will vote for Biden who might not vote for most other Dems.

The one single person on the face of the earth that can beat ------- is Biden
#24 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

You can't honestly believe that.