Why is the media gaslighting everyone about Joe Biden?

The man keeps losing track of his thoughts mid-sentence

Joe Biden.
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After the Democratic primary debate on Thursday, top-shelf political journalists were quick to declare Joe Biden the winner by default.

Biden turned in "a solid but unspectacular showing" that was good enough "for the former vice president to win the Democratic nomination and maybe even the White House," wrote Stephen Collison at CNN.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.