Democrats aren’t confident in Biden’s chances. But they may be stuck with him.

Politico ^ | 7/13/24 | Myah Ward, Eli Stokols, Elena Schneider, Holly Otterbein

[Libloather]

Three of Joe Biden’s senior aides entered a Senate Democratic lunch on Thursday armed with internal and external polls showing the presidential race still within the margin of error, hoping to keep this last bastion of support from abandoning his embattled campaign.

During a difficult and at times tearful meeting with Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and Jen O’Malley Dillon, senators aired concerns about the president’s ability to serve for another four years, his path to defeat former President Donald Trump and the effect Biden’s poor polling might have on Democrats running down the ballot, according to five people familiar with the meeting who were granted anonymity to describe private discussions.

But by the end of the lunch, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania had enough.

“You have legacies, too,” Fetterman said, according to the people, asking what those legacies would become “if you f*** over a great president over a bad debate.”

Then, the first-term senator called the question: Who was with him — committed to sticking with Biden as the party’s nominee?

No more than four people signaled that they were, according to four of the people familiar with the meeting. While not every Senate Democrat was in attendance and some had trickled out of the lunch already, Fetterman, Sens. Chris Coons of Delaware and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois thought Biden should continue.

The paltry show of support for Biden behind closed doors revealed that for all the indecision about whether and how to confront Biden, elected Democrats’ confidence in the president had plunged to a ruinous low. While Senate Democrats have largely kept quiet publicly, Biden may have to plow ahead despite an overwhelming lack of confidence from his former Senate colleagues. The majority of the Democratic caucus left Thursday’s meeting just as, if not more, concerned...

[catnipman]

once the Democrats resignedly accept that there’s no viable path forward except via their demonstrably senile candidate, it’s gonna be extremely entertaining to watch the fake stream democrat leftist propaganda media all tuck their tails and squeak in unison like a gaggle of Emily Litellas: “Never Mind” ...