Xitter thread by Daniel:
What Obama probably grasps and others miss is what replacing Biden in these circumstances for THIS reason would mean.
He is President. If he cannot excercise the duties of a candidate he can’t exercise those of President . And if the party admits it, then it means they admit they lied.
This is not Biden deciding on his own he cannot do the job. This is other Democrats deciding he will lose because too many people found out.
It is bad enough for voters to suspect you lied. It is another to admit it. For over a year every major Democratic figure has come forward to gush about Biden’s cognitive abilities in private. To force him out now is to admit they were gaslighting the American people. Gaslighting them over the most important and consequential issue imaginable.
This is doubly true of any plan to displace Harris. To suggest that not only is Biden unfit to be President but so is Harris to succeed him is to admit that the Democratic elite for its own ends, installed a President and Vice President who are unfit for office. At a time of domestic and global crisis. Furthermore, that for the next seven months including the campaign, America will be governed by two individuals whose own party has repudiated as competent for their roles, all because the voters trusted the Democratic party.
For the Democratic party to go into November with the above message and then expect the voters to forgive them is akin to the UK Conservatives believing that the UK electorate will reward Rishi Sunak for removing Liz Truss after she crashed the economy.
Obama gets this.
The people casually calling in public for removing the President they were 100% behind 24hrs ago and the VP they told Americans to vote for because it threatens their job security are political morons.
The entire party including the new ticket would be inviting this sort of credibility loss. They would be transformed into figures of mockery overnight.
Biden declining to run for a second term after the 2022 midterms probably leads to a polling bump.
Quitting under the pressure of the NYT and Nate Silver calling him senile sets off calls for a resignation. Not picking Kamala makes her prospective presidency untenable.
In fairness he is right about them.
Both Biden and the media/political class understate how unpopular this Administration’s performance/policy record has been which leads to them overvaluing the personal factor of Biden’s age/Kamala’s unpopularity v a mythical generic D liberal
The democrat party is toast if it admits joe was just a puppet for their hidden, perhaps even foreign, elites to rule thru.
Kamala has always been a lightweight.
And add to this her own dark past makes her easy to blackmail into compliance.
Dems likely, to keep the real puppet masters secret, will be forced to keep joe on the ballot until he dies, then Kamala takes his spot just for appearences.
The elites shot themselves in the foot on this one.
But, for 3+ years, they have been in charge and have remade America more to their own liking.
Much to the detriment of most Americans.
The democrats are at more risk if they remove joe. They lose with or without joe. His 81 million vote base(sarc) will not come out in November for dementia joe.
While I don’t believe the Democrats can replace Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden without causing fatal damage, the fact that it exposes the fact they’ve lied is a low hurdle for them. They would just cover that lie up with other lies and all their useful idiots would just nod their heads saying, “Yep! Yep! Yep!” Remember, these people CRAVE being lied to.
Democrats are used to a few ruling elites picking who they “want”. They did it with Hillary when Bernie had the lead. They did it to make Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden the nominee when, again, Bernie was the favorite. The lemmings won’t mind.
Democrats aren’t talking about getting rid of Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden’s policies. After all, they aren’t his anyway. They belong to the puppet masters and the far left that controls the party
I can remember another figure in history that thought he was smarter than all his advisors and generals.
I just want to know how joe defeated medicare
Looks like America has spoken…
(2) Jennifer Jacobs on X: “”Step down for DEMOCRACY!” “THANK YOU! NEXT…” “PLEASE DROP OUT FOR U.S.” “WE LOVE YOU BUT IT’S TiME” Photo by @AmandaGordon along Biden motorcade route in the Hamptons https://t.co/WyyRxHOAWC” / X
Last night news broke that the biden camp is beginning to negotiate its withdrawal from the campaign.
They insist on keeping all the campaign money as their first demand.
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There is a famous story about sex and money….
A man asks a woman if she would be willing to sleep with him if he pays her an exorbitant sum.
She replies affirmatively.
He then names a paltry amount and asks if she would still be willing to sleep with him for the revised fee.
The woman is greatly offended and replies as follows: