{"id":12453,"date":"2020-07-01T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12453"},"modified":"2020-06-30T18:25:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:25:32","slug":"when-the-bidexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-the-bidexit\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Bidexit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have reached a strange impasse in the campaign in which weakness is seen as strength. The fact that Biden is cognitively impaired and hiding in his basement in virtual incommunicado is now seen as a valuable strategy, given that Trump is dealing with the virus, lockdowns, the economy, and a pandemic of lawlessness and chaos \u2014 and &nbsp;down in the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Biden shows no sign of moving out, and we should expect that as long as he thinks \u2014 correctly for now \u2014 that it\u2019s a winning strategy, he will offer no detailed agenda other than as the virtual non-Trump. His surrogates will begin a campaign to end the idea of debates. Mail-in balloting will become a test of whether or not one is a racist. A virtual Zoom candidacy is not an impossibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden seems to concede that to venture out is synonymous with illustrations of his own cognitive impairment. What might prompt his return to the aether?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One, if Trump\u2019s aggregate polls inched back up from 42 or so to where they are usually after recovering from serial melodramas (Mueller, Ukraine, impeachment, COVID, lockdown, etc.) at around 45\u00ad-47 approval, then at that point, Biden would move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/when-the-bidexit\/\">Read the full article here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review We have reached a strange impasse in the campaign in which weakness is seen as strength. The fact that Biden is cognitively impaired and hiding in his basement in virtual incommunicado is now seen as a valuable strategy, given that Trump is dealing with the virus, lockdowns, the economy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3eR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12575,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ten-2020-issues-policies-personalities-and-chance\/","url_meta":{"origin":12453,"position":0},"title":"Ten 2020 Issues, Policies, Personalities \u2014 and Chance","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The nation has never seen an election like this. 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