Posted on 06/21/2024 8:57:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
NBC national affairs analyst John Heilemann on Friday said President Joe Biden’s campaign’s largest concern is that persuading certain voters the president is competent may be a lost cause.
Biden’s cognitive capabilities have repeatedly been raised as a possible problem, with NBC political analyst Elise Jordan earlier on Friday saying voters tell her they will be tuning into the upcoming presidential debate to “make sure that he’s up to the task” of being president. Heilemann on “Morning Joe” said the campaign’s deepest fear is that there may be no solution to persuading voters who have “stubborn concerns about” the president, based in part on an interview he conducted with Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon.
“I think that the thing, Katty, that worries them, is that the information environment is what it is,” Heilemann told MSNBC contributor Katty Kay. “And so I asked [O’Malley Dillon] to kind of try to make the case for, you know we see surrogates all the time go on TV and say, ‘I was in a meeting with Joe Biden recently and he seemed great.’ And I said, ‘Look, most of those people have been at one meeting with Joe Biden or a couple. You spend more time with him or as much time with him as anybody in the White House over the course of the last three years. How do you make the case that Biden is, give me a vivid reason to believe that for those who say Joe Biden is not up to the job?’”
“And she told a great story … emotional, powerful, vivid, but it’s a four or five-minute long story,” he added. “And in this information environment … the voters they have to reach are people who don’t hear the five-minute story. They’re never going to see Joe Biden that way. What they’re going to see is deep fakes, cheap fakes and not fakes, but images, quick images that leave a certain impression. And trying to reach people in this environment is really hard, reach anyone in the environment we live in now in the information ecosystem.”
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday seemed to guide Biden off a stage during a campaign event where he appeared to freeze. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday endeavored to downplay worries about Biden appearing to wander off at the latest G7 Summit, calling it a “cheap fake” orchestrated by Republicans following a video of it circulating recently.
“And I think they are grappling with that, a small set of voters that are very hard to reach with some very significant, stubborn concerns about Biden,” the analyst said. “How do you get through to those people? How do you move the needle with those people? There is no answer. There’s no secret silver bullet answer to that question. And that’s, I think, the thing, Katty, I think they worry about more than anything else.”
Back-to-back listeners on Tuesday called into popular hip-hop radio show, “The Breakfast Club,” to attack the president, as well as Democrats who assert he is fine.
The first caller dubbed Biden “demented Joe,” and the second said “these Democrats keep wanting to tell us not to believe our lying eyes, like everybody can’t see Joe Biden.”
“He is 81. And God bless him, but that don’t mean you capable and you the only person to run this country. We see what’s going on,” the second caller continued. “You can tell us this is not happening … but we see it. We actually out here living it. I’m actually seeing people having to put their groceries back at the cash register. People barely can afford energy bills now.”
“NBC Analyst Says the Dementia Joe Campaign’s Biggest Worry Is That It’s Impossible to Convince Voters He’s Competent”
NBC Analyst Says the Dementia Joe Campaign’s Biggest Worry Is That It’s Impossible to Convince HIM He’s Competent
The truth will out
“evil prick has set fire to our country”
You nailed it. If they can keep the debate focus on his “competence,” they can ignore the elephant in the room — the destruction of the USA that he and Obama set in motion.
You can polish a turd (proven by the Mythbusters), but it’s STILL a turd.
So many eligible people and we are supposed to believe that Biden is the best person to be President at this time?
They just need to work harder on the propaganda.
The peons must be trained to obey.
;-)
RCP - Real Corrupt Politics Moved Joe over 40% approval yesterday in their rigged Polls.
Because we can actually SEE him...
Biden has set the bar low; if he can just limp over the line he can claim success. And the media will give Biden’s claim billions of dollars of airtime validation.
Each time Biden does a state of the union address I expect him to fall apart and he hasn’t. I am cautiously pessimistic that Biden will slip the punch; again.
If he’s so competent, why doesn’t he do a live press conference taking any and all questions? Or he could do a live stream interview with someone like Joe Rogan.
One of the reasons many said they would not vote for Perot was due to his VP Stockton’s performance during the VP debates (1992).
He came across as old, feeble. Voters were apprehensive, should Perot become president and become unable to fulfill the duties that Stockton would have to assume the office. They wondered about Stockton’s mental acuity.
‘”...persuading certain voters the president is competent may be a lost cause.”
This is a dramatically telling statement. The justice department has already said he is not mentally capable of handling simple security requirements concerning the sensitive material he left in plain sight in his garage that his lawyers, who do not have clearance or the need to know, were afforded the chance to review while the documents were just sitting out. So, legally he is not responsible enough to be called competent as he has already established that way. So why is he still president let alone running again? Ask the RINO’s.
wy69
I’m still waiting for the democrats to show all the videos of him being alert, cogent, independent, and coherent.
If he’s really in the good shape they’re claiming, there should be a plethora of them.
Those will be the deep fakes.......................
“information environment” must be a new media phrase, all the alphabets will start using it.
Ture, but for the moment, they aren’t out there.
Seemed, appeared, appearing... It's all an illusion by that svengali Trump making you believe that Obama guided Biden off stage. In reality, Biden was leading Obama. He didn't wander off stage - he was leading the G7 in a new direction. Don't be fooled by HypnoTrump - Biden is healthier than ever.
The creator of the gold-standard “cognitive test,” Dr. Ziad Nasreddine wrote on X: “Frozen (masked faces, diminished arm swing, less frequent blinking, etc) are likely due to a central neurological disorder like Parkinson’s. If this was just a normal, elderly person, I would not post about it. However, perceived weakness in our commander in chief is....”
Speaking to theDaily Mail, Dr. Nasreddine noted that slurred speech is a symptom of Parkinson’s disease and is brought on by disrupted secretions of brain hormones responsible for movement........ Biden’s numerous erroneous speech and movement episodes—and sometimes the complete lack thereof.
The last such occurrence took place while on stage at a Hollywood fundraiser. After he completed his speech he stopped moving and seemed to stare in a manner that some describe as “blankly” over the crowd. According to the Associated Press, the “pause” turned the “star-studded” event into a cause celebre when Obama took a docile, submissive Biden by the hand and led him offstage.
An earlier White House Juneteenth celebration shows Biden standing absolutely still, with a half smile on his face while Kamala Harris, and the rest of the attendees, swayed and clapped to gospel tunes.
I remember that debate. Poor Stockton kept fiddling with his hearing aids.
Trump would likely prefer to sit also. That thought was from watching him on the Apprentice.
Trump's a Boardroom person. Biden is a basement person.
While this might be true, I think this is the media trying to influence Trump to go after Biden’s mental state and effectively ignore or spend less time on the economy and illegal immigration. This will have 2 benefits, 1) Trump wont destroy Biden for his actions that have led to the worst economy we’ve seen in 50 years and 2) Biden team thinks voters will be sympathetic to Biden getting beat up for being old and senile by the mean orange man.
Trump needs to stay focused on the economy, and illegals.
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