Joe Biden has given Americans a fighting chance to defeat Donald Trump | Moira Donegan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : In 2020, Biden had won the party's nomination in part because of his single-minded focus on defeating Trump, on his promise to fight off the threat of authoritarianism before all other priorities.
34% : Trump, by contrast, is 78, a rambling, largely incoherent speaker, and visibly weaker than when he first began running for president nearly 10 years ago, in 2015.
32% : But Trump is not the figure he once was.
31% : Many politicians - most conspicuously Trump himself - have made it clear that there is nothing they value more than their own aggrandizement.
11% : In withdrawing from the presidential race, Biden has given the country a fighting chance to defeat Trump and avert the worst of what the far right has planned for America.
11% : Trump has always practiced a politics of masculine domination, and his petty little virility displays - like looming over Hillary Clinton in the third presidential debate in 2016 - have long led liberals to fear that a woman could not defeat him; this, too, was part of Biden's pitch to voters in the 2020 primary.

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