House Dem tells Biden directly: Time for someone else to lead

Politico ^ | 7/12/24 | Nicholas Wulfsohn, Sarah Ferris

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A House Democrat who has called for Joe Biden to step aside confronted the president directly on a virtual meeting Friday, telling him it was time for someone else to lead, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The host of the meeting — between the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' political arm and Biden — ended it shortly after Rep. Mike Levin's (D-Calif.) comment. Biden responded to Levin, according to a member on the call, by reiterating that he is running. The president held meetings with various factions of House Democrats anxious about his future on the ticket on Friday and has more planned over the weekend.

Shortly after the meeting wrapped up, Levin, who hails from a purple district, put out a statement calling on Biden to end his reelection campaign.

Several others in that group, however, are among Biden’s more vocal proponents on the Hill. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) and Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.) appeared to be "pre-selected" to ask questions, according to a person familiar with the call.

“He sounded very lucid, sharp, engaged,” said another pro-Biden Democrat who attended the meeting, who declined to speak about members’ private comments.

And Correa in a statement praised the "productive" discussion and said he was "more than grateful that President Biden took time to talk to our caucus. He spoke frankly to us, he answered hard questions, and most importantly, he showed up."

But the discussion still left Biden-skeptical Hispanic Democrats feeling unsatisfied with his campaign. Biden showed up an hour late to the Hispanic Caucus meeting, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.

The Biden campaign later said in statements that the president had "delivered remarks and answered questions" from lawmakers in the meetings with the political arms of the Hispanic and Asian Pacific American...

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The meeting was held between 10am and 4pm.

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The author is Nicholas Wu.

[Sarcazmo]

I heard it said that if Biden didn’t call it by Friday (yesterday), it was going to either be him all the way, or real bad for the Dems.

Hard to believe they didn’t see this coming. Their inner circle, I mean. Their outer circle are just a gang of ‘tards (I’m looking at you Whoopie).

[ncalburt]

BS story line .
Its Dr Evil adulteress MacBiden and Druggie Hunter running the WH trailer park show for the last 4 years .
They wont give up power without a sniper attack.
Joe has been a vegetable for the last 4 yrs.
Nasty Joe was done in by some massive Facelift done in early 2016 . Anesthetic accelerates dementia and Snake face has had a few facelifts along with
Dr Evil .She is just too power and money hungry to damage.

[SMARTY]

Liberals are demanding a new/different crowd of traitorous criminals ... INSTEAD of the ones Joe brought into the WH.

Nothing will change. We will STILL have a bunch of unelected hacks playing God with our lives, and doing it with complete license.

I don’t know what I resent most…that they do this or that they assume we don’t know what’s happening.

[aquila48]

“Congressional Hispanic Caucus”

Is there a congressional White caucus?

[drypowder]

Per the headline; Time for someone else to be the sock puppet fool.

[frank ballenger]

Ha.

Biden: C’mon, now. Anyway. Guess what? I lead by a wide margin in every poll. Anyway.

House Dem: Fuhhggedddabout it.

[frank ballenger]

You’re right. As the Claude Rains senator in Mr.Smith Goes To Washington told Jimmy Stewart as he came to DC, we’ll tell you what the decision is on each issue and you just vote with us. It’s easier that way.