Posted on 07/11/2024 1:52:34 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Fearing a floor revolt against his nomination, Joe Biden’s aides are telephoning individual delegates to next month’s Democratic convention to gauge their loyalty to the president, according to three delegates who received a call this week.
After a round of introductory questions confirming each delegate was still planning on going to Chicago and asking if they had served as delegate before, the Biden aide making the calls got to the point, the Democratic activists recalled to me in separate interviews.
One of the delegates said the line of questioning turned with an inquiry along the lines of, “Do you understand what being a pledged delegate means?” before the aide asked: “Do you have any potential disagreements with the president?”
Another delegate said the bottom-line question was even more direct. “‘Is there any reason you couldn’t or wouldn’t support the president at the convention?’” the delegate recalled the aide asking.
The third delegate said the version he received was more open-ended: “’Do you have any concerns?’”
The delegates were thunderstruck at the calls. One of them initially wondered if it was some sort of prank until double-checking the caller ID and seeing Delaware’s area code, 302. After hanging up, each of them reached out to other convention delegates they knew and found these individuals also received the calls.
The three delegates I spoke to, all long-standing veterans of Democratic campaigns, said they had the same initial reaction after hanging up with the Biden aide: Was this an attempt by the president’s campaign to potentially block or replace disloyal pledged delegates?
One of them, however, was less intimidated than depressed about the state of the campaign after getting a second call from another aide reading the same script and asking about “concerns” regarding Biden’s nomination.
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All of his delegates will support him... They could care less if he’s a vegetable. Besides... He was a vegetable when they elected him the first time.
This indicates they are testing possible Heels Up with the delegates, without actually saying so.
I agree 👍
I didn’t get that from the posted info.
From what I have been reading, it appears he has gone rapidly downhill in the past six months. At this rate, he won’t make it to November.
Poor Jill. Being First Lady used to be so fun.
Does ANYthing prevent the delegates from votingto change the convention rules for nomination?
The delegates can change the rules if they wish—including removing the “pledge” requirement from pledged delegates.
That is exactly why the rules are voted on before votes for candidates are cast.
“Do you understand what being a pledged delegate means?” before the aide asked: “Do you have any potential disagreements with the president?”
If they gave the wrong answer they were referred to the FBI as domestic terrorists and Secret Service as potential threats to the President.
The rule is
Pledged Delegate: The delegate must make a good conscience effort to vote as his voters intended.
Simply that. Nothing more. No discretion. No maneuvering.
If you think you can persuade people to use their “good conscience” to vote against their voters, then you better think that can happen about 1950 times out of the 3900.
He only has to win by 1. You have to have over half of pledged delegates decide to backstab their voters.
Not going to happen.
now she is the presidents brain.
“You have to have over half of pledged delegates decide to backstab their voters.
Not going to happen.”
Normally you are totally correct.
The problem is there is nothing normal about this situation.
In fact a blatantly senile nominee who proved their senility beyond all reasonable doubt on national TV and Internet outlets has never been even imagined before.
There is no precedent for it.
Send Jill and Hunter out there tonight and cut past the gaffe’s of Old Sleepy and get to the heart of the matter.
When you notice Biden loyalists are each missing a part of their anatomy, like the Yazaka.....
The ethical part, just cut right off.
It smarts normal people, but not these folks.
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