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    Yeah, but last time Biden didn’t have as many verbal gaffs and was generally viewed in a positive manner due to his connection with Obama. His presidency has been relatively stable (given how much interference from the Republicans during it), but in the last year his popularity has gone down due to his actions over Gaza (he could have loudly and publicly stated he did not agree with the Republicans in congress and boosted his approval ratings easily) and his increasingly worrying speech patterns. I don’t actually think he has dementia (more that he’s in his 80s), but calling one of our allies the name of their enemy could definitely cause a political issue. I do suspect that a lot of the previous voters will probably still vote Biden, but they would probably vote for any halfway decent politician that opposed Trump. The problem is that some less convinced voters have been berated when asking questions about his fitness for the next 4 years, which does raise the bs alarm. And yes, I know Republicans have definitely been stoking that fire, but if the default response is to deflect then you are going to make those potential voters anxious.

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        Per unit time. He’s been having some mistakes and they have become more frequent. For example, when he basically planned a press conference to dispute/explain the verbal mistakes he made at the debate with Trump, and proceeded to have the massive one of calling Zylinski “Mr. Putin” about an hour before, causing them to cancel it. Again, he’s in his 80s, but it is still pretty depressing to those that aren’t supporting him completely due to his opposition to Trump.

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          causing them to cancel it.

          They didn’t cancel his NATO press conference. This is the press conference where Biden referred to his Vice President as “Vice President Trump”.