In 2016, the primary issue that plagued Democratic presidential standard-bearer Hillary Clinton was extrinsic: Was she a crook?
Then-FBI Director James Comey seemed to try to dispel that image somewhat during the summer of that campaign when he announced Clinton wouldn’t be prosecuted for mishandling classified information on her private email server.
He un-dispelled it in October, when he announced more emails had been found on the laptop of notorious sexter and all-around degenerate Anthony Weiner, the husband of Huma Abedin, Clinton’s key aide and campaign vice-chairwoman.
Clinton was quickly cleared from the reopened investigation and it remains a matter of debate how much Comey’s October announcement contributed to Donald Trump’s upset victory over Clinton in the November election. The emails were the symptom of the larger issue, however: Clinton couldn’t be trusted.
In 2020, the primary issue that’s going to plague Joe Biden is intrinsic: Is he mentally up to the task?
No one can diagnose a politician from afar — and, in fact, mental health officials are officially enjoined from doing so by the American Psychiatric Association’s so-called “Goldwater Rule.” That said, anyone who’s watched Biden’s public activities can tell this is a man exhibiting what I’ll charitably and euphemistically refer to as mental diminishing returns.
This isn’t just some crank millennial conservative telling you this, either. In fact, a majority of voters in a recent Zogby poll said they believe Biden is suffering from the “early stages of dementia.”
The poll, conducted June 1-2 and released Wednesday, found 55 percent of “likely voters” thought it was more likely than not that Biden had dementia compared with 45 percent who didn’t.
The poll, which drew 1,007 respondents, was conducted online.
Do you think Joe Biden is suffering from the early stages of dementia?
100% (2468 Votes)
0% (10 Votes)
“Using internal and trusted interactive partner resources, thousands of adults were randomly invited to participate in this interactive survey. Each invitation is password coded and secure so that one respondent can only access the survey one time,” Zogby reported.
It had a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
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