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When a pitcher is struggling you replace the pitcher, you don’t say “Well, he was fine for the first 2 innings.” You've got the right metaphor, but the wrong view. Let's back up a bit to start.
Baseball is a game designed for summer. The season is 162 games over 6 months. It's not like football which requires maximum effort every play - so much effort that it takes a week to properly recover before playing the next game. It's not like basketball which requires constant running and movement. Baseball has a slower pace - a pace appropriate for playing in the heat of summer. And the season is long and grueling. Most importantly, no team wins every game. If you are a baseball player, you are going to lose games. There is no way around that. But losing one game during the season is not the end. You get up the next day and play again. Losing yesterday no longer matters. It's about today's game, not yesterday's game or tomorrow's game.
The Biden team did not do well yesterday. Did they over-prepare him? Did they fail to prepare him for some aspects? Was he a bit sick? Should there have been a debate at all? It doesn't matter for today's game (although some folks should spend some time thinking about those questions and many others). The point is that was one day. It was a bad day, but it is not the end of the season. There are a lot more days to go before the season is over. There are a lot more opportunities for Biden to show what he can do.
I don't like going back to the same resource, but I will anyway. Here's some clips of Biden today. Less that 24 hours after last night's mess. This doesn't sound like a guy who needs to be given the boot. This sounds like a guy who has his marbles together, has energy, and knows the job that needs to be done - to win an election, but more importantly to lead a country for the next 4 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNbpReScD_IGotta let the host get his commentary in, but most of the video time is clips from Biden's rally today. Just skip over the host if he bothers you.
--Peter
