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The Dems Can’t Make Biden Leave If He Won’t Go. They're stuck.
Front Page Magazine ^ | June 28, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 06/28/2024 2:51:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The Democrats had plenty of time to edge Biden out. Despite all the talk, no one seriously tried to do it.

Now they’re stuck.

The DNC rigged the primaries for Biden. He’s the nominee. There are possible convention challenges, but they’re a longshot because the power behind Joe Biden isn’t Jill Biden (many seem to think that a D of Ed community college talent is the Machiavelli here), but a network of political careerists who are using him and who in traditional fashion control the DNC. They’d have to be dealt in or crushed and the whole show would further wreck the party’s standing. It’s an open question if the Dems suffer worse with Biden on the ballot or a divisive convention fight that splits the party. Any talk of a 25th Amendment would be the same problem x 10.

Can the Dems get Biden out?

It’s possible. But it would require a rapid concerted effort to inform Biden that he can’t run again and has to announce that he will drop out for health reasons (and maybe to be there for Hunter and his family.)

That means Obama, Hillary and every influential party figure staging an intervention, it means informing key DNC people that unless they switch sides, they will be blacklisted, and making it clear that there is no longer an option in which Biden is the candidate.

Can this happen? Yes. But it would require getting everyone on board. And that would be a challenge (but much less than it would have been last week).

And yet at the end of the day, Biden can (and very well might) tell them to all go to hell. Obama was able to persuade Biden not to run in 2016. He may be less persuadable now. That leaves few good options.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; biden; dnc
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To: ChildOfThe60s

The USA does not have enough military and police to enforce marshall law in every major city in the USA. Ain’t gonna ever happen.


41 posted on 06/28/2024 3:35:28 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Yes, there are other “ways”.


42 posted on 06/28/2024 3:36:08 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: 3RIVRS

[And he won’t go willingly. His ego might even be bigger than Trump’s. Just not as obvious]


Political leaders are more often than not, carried out. Russia’s Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great killed their respective sons rather than give up power. Trump ginned up Animal House on the Potomac in hopes of preventing Biden from taking office.

This isn’t a matter of ego. The presidency is objectively a huge prize. Entire armies have been butchered to secure similar prizes. If someone told you the lottery ticket in your possession had only a 10% chance of winning the jackpot, but if you gave it to someone else, that chance would increase, you have to be altruistic in an otherworldly way to hand it over.


43 posted on 06/28/2024 3:38:02 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Dr. Sivana
The "not pretty" part will do them in. Any one with half a crack at '28 will wait.

Anyone who's ambitious (most likely Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, etc) will prefer that Trump wins in November.

Then their road to the White House is clear in 2028.

44 posted on 06/28/2024 3:38:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Kahuna

TRump forgot to mention that biden was found too senile to be charged with a crime.


45 posted on 06/28/2024 3:43:26 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They won’t let Biden go off prompter anymore before the election. All scripted events. I can’t believe they will let him do another debate in September.


46 posted on 06/28/2024 3:44:21 PM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: truthkeeper

I’m guessing Jill could be bought on the cheap. She has to stand next to “Stinky” everyday.


47 posted on 06/28/2024 3:45:35 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh yes they can. Six ways to Sunday and a funeral. Cornered rats are anything but civilized.


48 posted on 06/28/2024 3:47:10 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Arlis

All eyes are on Kamala for the 25th amendment execution. She doesn’t have the political balls to use it.


49 posted on 06/28/2024 3:48:51 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: central_va

I personally hope that FJB remains the candidate in November, but the behind-the-scenes government might not want that.


50 posted on 06/28/2024 3:50:55 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I think we are all being played. Think it through. They want Biden out so they set up the debate. This debate is quite early for a presidential debate and it was designed so Biden would fail. It was meant to get the public to agree he should not run.


51 posted on 06/28/2024 3:51:45 PM PDT by xenia ( “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell)
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To: exnavy

Someone needs to tell Chip Roy that.


52 posted on 06/28/2024 3:52:48 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The DemonCrats will make Joe a deal he can’t refuse.


53 posted on 06/28/2024 3:53:12 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

54 posted on 06/28/2024 3:56:45 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: exnavy
The Federalist CEO and Co-Founder Sean Davis explains the dilemma of the Demonicrats in his article, "Can Democrats Just Dump Biden And Move On? It’s Not That Simple," where he states, in part:
The real problem for Democrats is political: Removing Biden as nominee requires them to deny and reject the election results of their voters in all 50 states after they spent four years accusing everyone else of being “election deniers.” They also will have a very hard time removing Biden as nominee but leaving him in as president. If he’s not mentally fit to be on the campaign trail or debate stage, how on Earth can he be fit enough to remain as president? The downsides of that strategy are immense, with little upside.

And that brings us to the real problem for Democrats: Kamala Harris. They know she’s political kryptonite because she’s both incredibly stupid and extremely unlikeable. Democrat voters can’t even stand her. So if they manage to get rid of Biden both as nominee and as president, they end up stuck with her, which might even be worse than doing nothing. Do they really want to be in the position of preventing the first female president from running as an incumbent? And can they sideline her while promoting another white dude like Gavin Newsom when their entire party is built around identity politics?....

I don’t think it’s a needle they’ll be able to thread without resorting to violence and republic-destroying tactics.

55 posted on 06/28/2024 3:58:36 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

At the risk of asking a dumb question; what is the obvious? I am sorry but I am not as politically savvy as many of the folks on FR. Thank you.


56 posted on 06/28/2024 4:04:06 PM PDT by Jean2
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To: Jean2

If Biden were to pass away, either naturally or with a little discreet assistance from the deep state, the whole question of whether he should continue to run immediately becomes irrelevant.


57 posted on 06/28/2024 4:09:59 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: catbertz

given the players, it may be easier to impeach and convict than to 25A


58 posted on 06/28/2024 4:10:36 PM PDT by dontreadthis (sometime)
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To: exnavy

I just thought of an interesting scenario. What if the dems DO manage to push Biden out and Kamala gets in and gets Hillary as her VP. I wonder how long it would take for Hillary to push Kamala out?


59 posted on 06/28/2024 4:13:03 PM PDT by Jean2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Easy force Biden and Harris out, just squeeze Hunter Biden with a long prison sentence or drop out..simple.


60 posted on 06/28/2024 4:20:26 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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