Posted on 02/23/2023 4:46:44 PM PST by conservative98
Joe Biden’s closest advisers have spent months preparing for him to formally announce his reelection campaign. But with the president still not ready to make the plunge, a sense of doubt is creeping into conversations around 2024: What if he decides not to?
Biden’s past decisions around seeking the presidency have been protracted, painstaking affairs. This time, he has slipped past his most ambitious timetable, as previously outlined by advisers, to launch in February. Now they are coalescing around April.
But even that target is less than definitive. People in the president’s orbit say there is no hard deadline or formal process in place for arriving at a launch date decision. According to four people familiar with the president’s thinking, a final call has been pushed aside as real-world events intervene. His cloak-and-dagger trip to Kyiv over the holiday weekend took meticulous planning and the positive reaction to it was seen internally as providing him with more runway to turn back to domestic politics.
While the belief among nearly everyone in Biden’s orbit is that he’ll ultimately give the all-clear, his indecision has resulted in an awkward deep-freeze across the party — in which some potential presidential aspirants and scores of major donors are strategizing and even developing a Plan B while trying to remain respectful and publicly supportive of the 80-year-old president.
Democratic Govs. JB Pritzker of Illinois, Gavin Newsom of California and Phil Murphy of New Jersey have taken steps that could be seen as aimed at keeping the door cracked if Biden bows out — though with enough ambiguity to give them plausible deniability. Senators like Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar have been making similar moves.
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but the Chinese Communist Party want Joe to run
The top Dems are Pritzker and Newsom. Lol.
There’s no way that fatso from Chicago can win.
Michael Obama wants to run....
Madam Dope on deck!
It’s probably why Newsom did this deal with Musk, do brag about it nationally.
What nominee would provide the best chance for a Democrat loss?
Senile traitor Joe, obviously infirm and not popular, but still with the election benefit of “incumbent”?
Or another traitor, without the Biden drawbacks/advantage?
Of course, based on Fetterman, Joe could be in a coma and still win.
Duh....Can you say Newsome...
What if he's on his way to prison?
It’s not that they think Biden is unelectable. Biden could easily be “(p)re-elected.”
I jus think Dems have grown weary of covering up his senility.
Biden can barely walk ...
JB could have his cousin Jennifer campaign for him. It lives in Kentucky.
Are they getting the basement ready?
Been saying this for over a year now, neither Biden nor Harris will be on the dems ‘24 ticket.
Biden will not decide anything.
If the oligarchs want him to run, they will have him run, and he will follow their directions as best he is able to do so. If they need a scapegoat for the ongoing recession and pending economic collapse, they can have him withdraw or resign at any time. He will play along with that too if it is necessary.
The wild card is; what if Biden dies from an unplanned medical crisis? It is a definite risk. Will Harris follow directions from the cabal? It seems that she will not.
The factions are struggling with these questions and do not seem to have arrived at answers yet.
I believe that assessment is correct.
This article is a joke.
You and I have more input as to whether Joe Biden runs than Joe Biden does.
He will do as he is told—if he can understand the instructions!
Klobuchar must have a very high opinion of herself, I don’t know of anyone else who does. What a loser! (eats her salad with a dirty comb)
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