Here’s who should REALLY drop out of the race

| 5:22 pm EDT June 29, 2024
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Immediately after the Biden-Trump debate ended, numerous talking heads on MSNBC and CNN either suggested that Biden should drop out of the race, or claimed that discussions were underway for Biden to drop out of the race. Shortly thereafter, the New York Times published an op-ed calling for Biden to drop out. The rationale from all of them was the same: after Biden’s debate performance, he supposedly had no chance of defeating Trump.

But a funny little thing like reality is now coming into play. Some of these same outlets had focus groups that declared Biden the winner of the debate. And in the first major post-debate poll released, Biden has gained a point and is now ahead of Trump.

These are just individual data points, but they fall precisely in line with what one could have reasonably expected. Neither Biden nor Trump came off well in the debate, so it therefore wasn’t going to help or hurt either one of them by any meaningful measure.

So here’s the real question. When the dust settles and we see that the debate didn’t hurt Biden at all, will MSNBC and CNN and the New York Times all agree to drop out of journalism? At the least they should all formally apologize to their audiences for what was at best an incredibly clueless take suggesting that they have no idea how politics even works, and at worst an intentionally full of crap take suggesting that they were misleading their audiences on purpose.