Why would anyone vote for Biden when he can't string a coherent sentence together and he has been accued of sexually assaulting one of his aides?
The Supreme Court.
I get and respect why people some people might not be able to bring themselves to vote for him.
But - as someone who's well to the left of the Democrats - that's the reason I'd probably hold my nose and vote for him, if I were a U.S. citizen and eligible to vote in a competitive state.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 87, and has faced a string of health problems in recent years. Stephen Breyer is 81. Clarence Thomas is 71, and is rumoured to have health problems of his own. And Samuel Alito - while a mere 70 years young - might look at RBG as a cautionary tale, and opt to retire while a Republican is still in the White House, depending on how things are looking after the 2022 midterms.
If Trump gets another four years in office, there's a very realistic chance that there will be six Trump appointees on the Supreme Court by 2024.
The right-wing Democratic establishment has already started hammering on this line. It's the ultimate Charlie Brown football: The Supreme Court! You must not think of anything but the Supreme Court! Fuck policy, fuck sick people, fuck stopping the slaughter of brown people overseas, fuck the collapsed economy, fuck your future, fuck your kids, fuck your grandkids. Settle for the hope of a Supreme Court justice who, 30 years down the line, might not vote to overturn your fundamental rights. That's what American politics is now.
Joe Biden has already promised to veto Medicare for all. Do you think Supreme Court justices he picks will uphold any state's single-payer system? He opposes abortion. Think his justices will uphold Roe v. Wade? He's an architect of racist mass incarceration policies. But now we're supposed to believe he'll appoint a left-wing Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court, like everything else, was lost as soon as Bernie dropped out.
We know that the Republicans are going to have bad supreme court picks. But is the idea that the Democrats would have substantially better picks based on anything other than fantasy and projection? Did Clinton or Biden ever once themselves raise that issue as to why Trump should be defeated? Remember that when the vacancy that Kavanaugh eventually ended up filling happened under Obama, Obama didn't even really challenge the Republican obstructionism. Do we have any reason to believe that Biden would fight for his nominee in the face of a hostile Republican Senate?