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'Chill The F**k Out': John Fetterman Urges Democrats To Stick With Joe Biden | The Pennsylvania senator reminded panicked Democrats on Friday that he too had a bad debate once, yet he went on to win his Senate seat.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-debate-john-fetterman_n_667ea850e4b0415858d6a2f1
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u/jmcgit Connecticut 6d ago

Biden's opponent is a TV grifter too

Though frankly that's probably the only reason Biden still has a chance

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u/BLF402 6d ago

If you go back and watch the debate last night Biden was more on point when it comes to the platform whereas trump was just spewing nonsense lies and self congratulatory rhetoric.

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u/Ven18 6d ago

and despite what people believe the American votes historically do actually care about policy and vison for the country. Debates historically done even mean anything. Even the historic JFK Nixon debate has been warped after the fact by the media to make themselves feel more important than they are. At the time most media commentators even though who watched on TV praised Nixon's performance. The difference was the JFK was a specially charismatic individual who was able to have broad appeal neither Trump or Biden are that

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u/Jorge_Santos69 6d ago

Charisma doesn’t really bring about broad appeal anymore, things are too polarized

See: Obama