In particular, the Hur report ended any chance that the Biden campaign had of successfully deploying the "Basement" strategy that hid Biden from the public's view in 2020.
So of course there were murmurings that Biden's team declined the interview because of Biden's diminished state.
Prior to Hur's report, Biden plausibly could have mitigated the usual negative perceptions associated with debate avoidance with rhetorical justifications such as: "We won't give Trump a platform for lies," "Trump denigrates the debate process," "Trump wouldn't give Haley debates," and the like.
Biden's team can't say, "Yeah, he's mentally diminished but" Biden and his allies must confront this issue by emphatically denying the issue exists.
The only way for the Biden team to change public perception is to affirmatively demonstrate Biden's mental fitness to handle the most difficult and demanding job in the world.
The Biden campaign's new tactic of releasing short, prerecorded Biden clips on TikTok simply won't cut it.
The problem for Biden's team is magnified because we are dealing with Biden.
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