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The mood in Washington over Biden: Fear, sadness and looking for an escape hatch
Politico | Yahoo ^ | July 21, 2024 | By Liz Crampton, Zack Colman, Meredith Lee Hill, Robin Bravender, Daniel Payne and Declan Harty

Posted on 07/21/2024 6:23:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Alarmed group texts that buzz with the latest news. Rank-and-file staff dusting off resumes. A desperate rush to finish top initiatives before the clock runs out.

As President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign buckles under mounting pressure for him to step aside, federal workers throughout Washington are feeling anxious and scared. They have been nervously looking on as Biden’s abrupt evaporation of support has embroiled the Democratic Party in an unprecedented crisis, prompting thousands of employees to game out whether they should be preparing for a change at the White House — and mourning the possible end of the Biden administration that brought relative peace after the volatility of the Trump era.

Interviews with dozens of federal employees revealed a grim mood within the sprawling apparatus of the U.S. government, including the White House, after weeks of uncertainty. Some of these employees are overwhelmed and dejected by Biden’s conundrum — and gripped by worries about the lack of clarity over who will be leading the federal government after November. Many were granted anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.

One White House official described feelings of “sadness” from the question swirling around whether Biden should continue his candidacy.

“We have to make some tough choices. … We’re in battle,” the official said. “We need someone who can represent us. I am incredibly loyal to our president, but it’s hard when you’re putting your life on the line like many of us working every night, every day, when you don’t know who is going to be on the top of the ticket.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; dementia; election2024
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This is beginning to look like political theatre. The deep state, democrats, and media cannot be trusted.
1 posted on 07/21/2024 6:23:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are not just concerned about who’s going to be at the top of the ticket. Those who are political appointees are concerned that, the Democrats are going to lose no matter who they nominate.

In that case all of them need to look for new jobs. We might even have to move out of the Washington DC area and go back home.


2 posted on 07/21/2024 6:32:27 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fear, sadness and looking for an escape hatch.

What Lenin must have felt over the Bolsheviks.


3 posted on 07/21/2024 6:35:19 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Should read, They might need to move, not we.


4 posted on 07/21/2024 6:35:19 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

5 posted on 07/21/2024 6:37:42 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Well they knew elections come every four years when they took their positions so it’s really accepting a temperorary job hoping you’ll get four more years....or be noticed and hired within Washington.


6 posted on 07/21/2024 6:46:06 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BTTT


7 posted on 07/21/2024 6:52:17 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The deep state shot the wrong candidate.


8 posted on 07/21/2024 6:56:17 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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...elections come every four years...

Well....some probably thought that the “unpredictable” nature of elections had been resolved in their favor.

9 posted on 07/21/2024 6:57:53 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Dilbert San Diego
In that case all of them need to look for new jobs. We They might even have to move out of the Washington DC area and go back home.

And then Virginia would once again be a red state.
10 posted on 07/21/2024 7:17:08 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
2024 will see MORE DNC/Communist party VOTER FRAUD than 2020


11 posted on 07/21/2024 7:20:23 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Democracy!”


12 posted on 07/21/2024 7:22:05 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (If ignorance is bliss how come there aren't more happy people?)
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the Biden administration that brought relative peace after the volatility of the Trump era

it’s hard when you’re putting your life on the line like many of us working every night, every day

What rock do these people live under?

13 posted on 07/21/2024 7:22:11 AM PDT by johniegrad
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“... and go back home...”

To New York, Chicago, San Francisco etc.


14 posted on 07/21/2024 7:42:05 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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No, it’s reality. Politico, Axios, the Hill are the three DemoKKKrat mouthpieces (as Rush Limbaugh would say). They are giving an official state of the race.

1) Rutabaga IS the nominee. They can’t figure another way out.
2) Rutabaga is GOING TO LOSE HUGE. Right now, VA has moved into Trump’s column on RCP. He will come in between 320 and 360 EVs and the popular vote . . . HUGE (probably eclipsing the fraudulent “81 million votes” -—my ass).
3) They KNOW THEY CAN’T STEAL IT. Not one single D insider has the slightest level of confidence in winning. That should tell you something. It isn’t theater.

It is panic and sheer terror.


15 posted on 07/21/2024 7:46:15 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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Yes, well there is that too!


16 posted on 07/21/2024 7:47:14 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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Report: Biden Plotting with Allies to Defy Critics and Salvage Campaign
7/21/2024, 6:24:50 AM · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies

Breitbart ^ | 07/21/2024 | Simon Kent

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-20/biden-plots-to-salvage-campaign-many-allies-believe-already-over?embedded-checkout=true


17 posted on 07/21/2024 7:52:18 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Quick Secret Service action stops the eviction of dementia patient from his home.)
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To: johniegrad

When you live by the lies they eventually catch up with you and destroy you, How long can you cover COVER UP?

Democrats are getting what they deserve:
Fear
Panic
Confusion
Making rash decisions

The Master Barakeh Hussein Obama is revealed.


18 posted on 07/21/2024 7:56:37 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.i)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When did getting a government job become lifelong care?

It’s a job.

Sitting in an air conditioned office every day does not make a government employee a god that the rest of us must worship and serve.

If they are not required, shake their hand and thank them and send them on their way.

There is no employment for life in the federal government.

It is not cruel to let people go who are not needed.

Reducing government payrolls reduces taxes which allows private companies to hire laid off government employees for work that is needed.


19 posted on 07/21/2024 7:59:54 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The same news for us is really positive.

The same news for the leftists who hate America and us, is devastating them.

May they have sleepless nights and day time misery re when the next bad news for their side hits the front pages and prime time tv formerly fake news.


20 posted on 07/21/2024 8:00:11 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Quick Secret Service action stops the eviction of dementia patient from his home.)
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