When Joe Biden avoided reporters while traveling to Brazil and Peru for the G-20 summit, Nate Silver questioned his capacity to lead.
On Wednesday, November 20, pollster Nate Silver stated that Joe Biden “should resign” so that Kamala Harris may complete the last two months of his tenure. The 82-year-old commander in chief was on a six-day international tour to Peru and Brazil for the G-20 conference when the polling expert questioned Biden’s capacity to serve. Biden avoided the media and spoke relatively little in public while on his vacation.
“Is there any particular reason to assume Biden is competent to be president right now?” Silver wrote on X in response to a Washington Post piece on the summit and the president ignoring reporters. It’s a really challenging job. The world is perilous. incredibly important choices in Ukraine. He ought to step down and give Harris the remaining two months.
When Nate Silver first demanded that Joe Biden step down
It is “entirely reasonable,” according to Silver, to view Biden’s age-related mental impairment as “disqualifying” him from serving as president. In February, he declared that Biden was a “below-replacement-level candidate” and that the Democrats would lose the November election.
Following the president’s dismal debate performance against Donald Trump on June 26 and his interview with George Stephanopoulos a week later, Silver demanded that Biden resign. On July 5, Silver stated, “I backed out of today’s column and removed a line stating that he should come up with a plan to hand over the presidency to Harris in 30 to 60 days, but I’m there now.” “There is obviously a problem here.”
The pollster also correctly predicted that “Democrats will apply incredible amounts of pressure” to persuade Biden to withdraw from the race, saying, “The most generous way to put it is that he doesn’t seem in command, and that’s an extremely hard sell when you’re Commander in Chief.”
On July 21, Biden declared his intention to withdraw from the contest and supported Harris to take his place. Trump ultimately defeated the vice president in the election.
