The reason I buy Biden’s mental decline is that, when his campaign was about to falter, surrogates and staff from his own campaign were leaking information about trying to make up for his deficits. They planned far lesser events, planned events for the morning when he was sharpest, etc.
His lapses on stage are just so bad. He’s been in the Senate for 40 years and he can’t even remotely come close to quoting the Declaration of Independence? You know how many times he’s probably quoted that on the Senate floor or campaign trail?
I watched Biden in 2008 and 2012. Yes, he had his “gaffes,” but they were nowhere close to this.
For what it’s worth, my wife is a speech therapist with a masters, and she says these things have nothing to do with stuttering, but involve losses in your train of thought. Obviously she’d need to do an in-person evaluation, but her observation is early stages of dementia. “Dots aren’t connecting” was her phrase. She hates Trump enough that she is 100% voting for Biden, so just putting this out there.