archive.today • Democratic Leaders Are More Optimistic About Biden 2024 Than Voters - The New York Times

“I’m looking at all the polling, and I’m amazed that it has so little to do with reality. […] A big part of it is just pure ageism. The American people are prejudiced against old people.”

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“It’s not just about which president can get through the day without tripping or stumbling over their words, which everybody is going to do, but which president is going to lead this country forward in a way that helps people solve problems and keeps American democracy intact.”

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    “It’s not just about which president can get through the day without tripping or stumbling over their words, which I am going to do because my brain is rancid clam chowder, but which president is going to God Bless America I Pledge Allegiance to the Amber Waves of Grain From Sea to Shining United States of the Democrats - you know the thing. Vote.”

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      How do you think they got him to quit challenging audience members to push up contests and calling them fat?

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        “Senator Biden, we are respectfully asking you to quit challenging audience members to push up contests and calling them fat.”

        “But I’m fit. I’m not old. I mean not old-old. I’m up in years but not old-old. Never old-old. Soon enough I’ll be president-president. And if they’re fat - they’re fat!” He starts to speechify - “When I was a boy in Scranton, PA - my poppy used to—”

        “But if we do as we ask - you’ll like it.”

        “I will?”