Will Biden's Replacement Be Worse?
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PJ Media ^
| 7/3/2024 | Lincoln Brown
At some point, someone needs to tell the media to move on after the debate. Biden's
diminished mental capacity is only news to the mainstream media. America knew it; the White House, the Senate, and Congress knew it. The only thing that has changed is that the issue is now impossible to avoid. At the moment, the House is fielding demands for Biden to drop out, and the media vultures have been in free fall. But if we are honest, no one seriously believed that Biden was in charge to begin with. Joe wanted his ride in the Oval Office,...
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As Biden team suggests there can be no alternative, DNC rules provide a path if Biden were to step aside
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NBC News | DNC ^
| July 3, 2024 | By Jonathan Allen, Carol E. Lee and Natasha Korecki
WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden’s campaign tries to calm nervous Democrats, the Democratic National Committee is circulating talking points that misleadingly suggest, according to some sources, there is no procedural means of replacing the president at the top of the party’s ticket — without sharing the path ahead if he were
to step aside. But as the party’s rules stand now, according to three people who are familiar with them and the DNC’s 2022 document outlining procedures for the convention, there is a process for replacing Biden if he voluntarily chooses to step aside after the Aug. 22 conclusion...
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'I'm not leaving': Biden expands effort to tamp down calls to step aside
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NBC News ^
| July 3, 2024 | Alexandra Marquez, Natasha Korecki and Monica Alba
President Joe Biden on Wednesday increased his outreach to lawmakers, Democratic governors, and staff after days of criticism that he hasn't done enough to personally tamp down on nervousness that he should abandon his run for re-election. ... On an all-hands call with campaign staffers, Biden made clear that he didn't plan
to exit the race, telling attendees, "Let me say this as clearly as I possibly can, as simply and straightforward as I can: I am running," according to one campaign official on the call. “No one is pushing me out," the president added, also saying, "I’m not leaving....
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Joe Biden Meets With Kamala Harris as Replacement Talk Grows
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Newsweek ^
| 7/3/2024 | Kahleda Rahman
President Joe Biden will have lunch with Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday as he faces growing pressure to drop out of the 2024 race following his disastrous debate performance last week. The
81-year-old Democratic president has signaled that he has no intention of stepping aside, despite his weak debate performance against Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, on Thursday. Biden's poor showing sparked an immediate panic among Democrats and further highlighted concerns about his age and capacity to lead the country for another four years. Harris is among the top contenders being floated to replace Biden at the top...
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Kamala Harris top choice to replace Joe Biden if he steps aside, sources say
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Reuters ^
| July 3, 2024 | Nandita Bose
Vice President Kamala Harris is the top alternative to replace U.S. President Joe Biden if he decides not to continue his reelection campaign, according to seven senior sources at the Biden campaign, the White House and the Democratic National Committee with knowledge of current discussions on the topic. Biden's
fumbling, sometimes-incoherent and widely-panned first-debate performance against Republican rival Donald Trump last week set off a wave of panic within the Democratic party over concerns that he may not be fit enough to serve a second term, and prompted calls for top aides to resign. Some influential Democrats have floated alternatives...
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VP Harris top choice to replace Biden in election race if he steps aside, sources say
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Reuters via Yahoo ^
| July 3rd, 2024 | Nandita Bose
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Vice President Kamala Harris is the top alternative to replace U.S. President Joe Biden if he decides not to continue his reelection campaign, according to seven senior sources at the Biden campaign, the White House and the Democratic National Committee with knowledge of current discussions on the topic.Biden's fumbling, sometimes-incoherent
and widely-panned first-debate performance against Republican rival Donald Trump last week set off a wave of panic within the Democratic party over concerns that he may not be fit enough to serve a second term, and prompted calls for top aides to resign.Some influential Democrats have floated alternatives...
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Biden faces mutiny as 25 Democrats prepare to call for ailing president, 81, to step aside after disastrous debate against Trump - as one warns 'the dam has broken'
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Daily Mail ^
| 7/03/24 | Stephen M. Lepore
At least 25 Democrat members of Congress are set to call on Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race in the coming days, while a pair of Senators have distanced themselves from the ailing president. The
Democratic revolt in the House was expected to take place if Biden 'seems shaky in coming days' as one Democrat aide warned: 'the dam is broken.' In the Senate, it was revealed that centrist Joe Manchin needed to be pulled back from the brink as he prepared to become the first Biden ally to call for him to quit on one of...
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1 in 3 Democrats say Biden should step aside: Poll
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The Hill ^
| 7/02/24 | Miranda Nazzaro
Nearly a third of Democrats believe President Biden should end his reelection bid following his lackluster debate performance against former President Trump last week, according to a new poll. A
Reuters/Ipsos poll, published Tuesday, found 32 percent of Democrats think Biden should give up his reelection bid just days after he squared off against Trump in the first debate of the 2024 general election season last week. **SNIP** Biden has already won the primaries, winning a majority of delegates, and thus he cannot be simply overthrown at the Democratic National Convention in August. The decision is ultimately up to him,...
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Kamala Harris set to inherit $240M in Democrat funds if Biden drops out — transfer tricky for any other candidate: sources
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New York Post ^
| July 2, 2024 | Lydia Moynihan
Kamala Harris is poised to take Joe Biden’s place if he drops out of the presidential race — in part because she’s the only person who can take control of the Democrats $240 million war chest, sources told The Post. Many prominent Democrats are waiting in the wings to take the ailing
81-year-old’s place, but the quarter billion Biden-Harris have raised is non-transferrable, campaign finance sources told The Post. “Biden has two real choices: Kamala inherits; or they transfer it all to the DNC,” Signum Global partners Rob Casey told The Post. “That money would all be accessed by Kamala…...
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Rome Takes Historic Step Towards ‘Full Communion’ with Conservative Anglicans
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The Stream ^
| July 2, 2024 | Jules Gomes
Rome Takes Historic Step Towards ‘Full Communion’ with Conservative AnglicansThe Vatican is taking historic strides towards achieving “full communion” with Anglicans who do not ordain female priests. It
is doing so by recognizing Anglican holy orders and churches, but not requiring them to merge with or convert to Roman Catholicism.“We are scheduled to begin our talks at the Vatican this coming September 26-27,” Bishop Ray Sutton, presiding bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church in the U.S., announced in an Ecumenical Relations Task Force Report of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) College of Bishops.The ACNA bishops, who oversee 128,000...
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Why Kamala Harris Would Be Biden’s Likeliest Replacement
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While that path carries risk because Harris’s poll numbers are nearly as lackluster as Biden’s, she is popular enough among Democrats—particularly among women and Black voters—that casting her aside could cause resentment and division within the party.
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Joe Biden Is Meeting With Democrat Governors Tomorrow
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Hotair ^
| 07/02/2024 | David Strom
Earlier today there was a story that my governor, Tim Walz, has been talking to other governors who are deeply concerned about Biden's debate performance. The
consensus was that nothing would calm the waters save, perhaps, a meeting with the president to discuss the path forward. Replacing rest of this thread with the story we wrote on the topic, since story is developing: https://t.co/XSLqiNKsgC— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 2, 2024WashingtonCNN—Some Democratic governors are seeking a meeting with the White House to discuss their concerns about President Joe Biden in the aftermath of his poor debate performance, multiple sources with knowledge...
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Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) is the first Democratic lawmaker to openly urge Biden to step aside from the 2024 presidential race.
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X ^
BREAKING: Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) is the first Democratic lawmaker to openly urge Biden to step aside from the 2024 presidential race.
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Sources: Democratic governors held a call yesterday afternoon - concern about what's going on with the president
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Jake tapper X ^
Sources: Democratic governors held a call yesterday afternoon... Just governors – no staffs – no one from campaign or WH... Organized by Gov Tim Walz of Minnesota for the DGA... On the call Dem. governors expressed concern about what's going on with the president They know if they come forward publicly with
concern that likely will cause Biden to dig in more They were also surprised none of them had heard from him (!) There was discussion on the call about wanting to have a call with the campaign or White House... Some discussion about having VP Harris address them......
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Former Republican NC governor: If Biden won’t step down, he’s still the better option
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Yahoo News ^
| 7/1/24 | Jim Martin
As a Republican who considers Trump a “clear and present danger,” it’s undeniable he was more energized, dominating the entire 90 minutes. With
rules to prohibit his infamous interruptions, he only had to smirk at Biden’s struggles.
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Sources close to Biden report 'marked incidence of cognitive decline' in last 6 months: Bernstein
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Fox News ^
| July 1, 2024 | Joseph Wulfsohn
Anonymous sources reportedly close to President Biden have allegedly witnessed "15, 20 occasions in the last year and a half" similar to what the country saw at last week's presidential debate. Snip
And what's so significant is the people that this is coming from, and also how many people around the president are aware of such incidents, including some reporters incidentally who have witnessed some of them," he said.
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Too Many Missing Satellite Galaxies Found....Bringing us one step closer to solving the “missing satellites problem,” researchers at Tohoku University and abroad have discovered two new satellite galaxies.
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Asia Research News ^
| June 28, 2024 | Tohoku University
The position of a newly found dwarf galaxy (Virgo III) in the constellation Virgo (left) and its member stars (right; those circled in white). The
member stars are concentrated inside the dashed line in the right panel NAOJ/Tohoku University ======================================== For years, astronomers have worried about how to explain why the Milky Way has fewer satellite galaxies than the standard dark matter model predicts. This is called the “missing satellites problem.” In order to bring us closer to solving this problem, an international team of researchers used data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Subaru Strategic Program (SSP) to discover two...
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Billionaire governor JB Pritzker considered as potential Biden replacement failed to deliver promised jobs to black residents: study
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NY Post ^
| 06/30/2024 | Carl Campanile
Billionaire Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker failed to deliver jobs promised for black workers in the emerging cannabis and green energy industries, an economic advocacy group said in a scathing report. Pritzker
– considered a potential replacement for President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket – will be hosting the Democratic National Convention on his Chicago turf in August. “Governor Pritzker wants the DNC to celebrate his leadership of the state. However, it would be an injustice to do so without acknowledging the deteriorating state of affairs for Black communities, especially in Chicago,” said Darius Jones, senior advisor...
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Billionaire governor JB Pritzker considered as potential Biden replacement failed to deliver promised jobs to black residents: study
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NY Post ^
| 6/30/24 | Carl Campanile
Billionaire Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker failed to deliver jobs promised for black workers in the emerging cannabis and green energy industries, an economic advocacy group said in a scathing report. Pritzker
– considered a potential replacement for President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket – will be hosting the Democratic National Convention on his Chicago turf in August. “Governor Pritzker wants the DNC to celebrate his leadership of the state. However, it would be an injustice to do so without acknowledging the deteriorating state of affairs for Black communities, especially in Chicago,” said Darius Jones, senior advisor...
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Campaign desperately tries to tamp down Democrats’ panic as calls for Biden to step aside grow
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The Washington Times ^
| 30 Jun 2024 | Jeff Mordock, Mallory Wilson
The panic inside the Democratic Party is growing.Democratic National Committee members lashed out at the campaign for gaslighting them about President Biden’s health, while the campaign team accused nervous Democrats of “bedwetting” over the debate catastrophe even as another major newspaper called for President Biden to quit his reelection bid.Biden allies rushed
over the weekend to ease concerns about the 81-year-old president’s faltering campaign by showing unwavering public support, even as many grumbled that the campaign wasn’t taking seriously enough the fallout from his abysmal debate performance.Mr. Biden stayed out of sight at Camp David as his surrogates flocked to...
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