Posted on 07/16/2024 10:29:51 AM PDT by conservative98
Dozens of House Democrats are organizing a plan to speak out against their own party’s effort to seal President Joe Biden’s nomination sooner than originally planned, which they argue stifles the intense ongoing debate about his candidacy, according to a lawmaker involved in the effort.
A drafted letter, circulated by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and obtained by POLITICO, offers the first public signal from Democrats since the weekend’s attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump that scores of their own members remain deeply unsettled about the future of Biden’s candidacy.
“It’s a really bad move by the DNC. Somebody thinks it’s a clever way to lock down debate and I guess by dint of sheer force, achieve unity, but it doesn’t work that way,” Huffman said in an interview. He declined to confirm the existence of a letter.
The missive from this group of Democrats does not specifically call for Biden to leave the race — and, in fact, specifically states that it represents a “spectrum” of views. Even so, many Democrats who have been privately pleading for more of their colleagues to call on Biden to end his campaign saw this as a potentially watershed moment after weeks of mostly private discussions about the party’s dilemma.
The push for a new nominee — which had been effectively frozen by last weekend’s shooting — has returned to public view, and House Democrats now appear to be seriously organizing for the first time.
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Chaos in the Democrat party will be starting up again.
So the "soft coup" attempt to replace Biden has failed.
Perhaps they've underestimated the Bidens.
“Hey Joe, we’ve scheduled a public speech for you. Don’t worry about exposure, the Secret Service is sending the same crack team they did for Trump...”
I thought the remove Biden factions were ‘standing down’ after Trump nearly died? I guess that didn’t last too long, eh?
Is there a cabal of insiders in the Democrat party? And they control things?
What irony that a so called “Democratic” party is not really democratic.
Demented Joe kicked their collective butts, that has got to smart.
Hopeful guess: the failed assassination made it impossible to beat Trump even with fraud, so they might as well let Biden take the dive and pull Kamela down with him, and run their Great DEI Hope (whoever that is) in 2028 against a weakened GOP primary between Vance and DeSantis.
I hope they’re thinking that, but probably not.
Maybe some Democrat insiders are writing off 2024.
It would be messy to get rid of Biden and somehow get rid of Kamala too, to install someone else, who might well go down to defeat anyway.
Maybe some of those power brokers are happy to let Biden and Harris go down to defeat, get rid of Kamala for the future that way, and regroup for 2028.
Obama is a pretty boy. The Bidens are sleazy. After all, Joe said “Nobody ***** with a Biden!”
Democrats are always blathering about democracy until it is unconformable to them, then they want to change it.
What they are proposing is to upend an election and replace the candidate with a new one AFTER the election.
You can’t get anymore undemocratic than that.
Most of them have given up. These guys are the bitter-enders.
I’m thinking you’re right. But the problem of down-ballot losses remains. They have to do something about that, and I don’t know what that would be. Any ideas?
Since the Dems aren’t reading my advice...
Make all the downballot elections local; don’t say you’re running to work with Biden, but rather to make sure Trump doesn’t get to destroy democracy. Push your support for “a woman’t right to choose,” making sure public education and welfare continue to be funded, and take popular positions on local issues, e.g., Florida’s Amendment 3 to legalize weed. That way Trump is in the White House, but nothing of his gets passed in Hakeem’s House or Chuckie’s Senate.
I’m thinking the original idea was: Trump dies, Biden is removed. So, a pasty low energy Jeb Bush type could lose to Harris as the nation gets ‘fresh choices’.
So, had Biden not started polling badly, the even more original idea was: Biden wins reelection and at some point, Harris takes over in the second term. She never made sense as a running mate, she is unpopular even when Biden was polling well (Afghanistan withdrawal being the moment Biden starting going down and if I recall, the start of FJB/LGB as the chants started at sporting events). So, all of this was Biden just doing as OBama forces told him to do.
At this point I can easily AOC conducting public “show trials” and “struggle sessions” on any dem that does not immediately bow to Comrade Biden.
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