We Must Hope This Latest Biden Development *Isn't* True

Townhall ^ | 07/18/2024 | Matt Vespa

[SeekAndFind]

Is Joe Biden close to dropping out? Those chances shot up to 50 percent after the proverbial dam appeared to have broken yesterday. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called on Biden to exit the race, with Sen. Chuck Schumer and Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) echoed those sentiments. They showed him polls highlighting the president’s inability to win and Biden becoming a weight on the entire party.

NEW — "According to my sources, President Biden agreed to step down as the Democratic nominee. It will happen as early as this weekend..."

- Mark Halperin on Newsmax just now pic.twitter.com/89vkN7VV0Q— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 18, 2024

Democrats behind the scenes have probably been doing the same for days. When Biden didn’t listen, they began leaking the details, and they’re damning. To make things worse for Biden, the president tested positive for COVID in Nevada yesterday. This development comes after Biden said he’d step aside if he suffered some medical episode. Huddled in his Delaware home, reports poured in this morning that Biden is resigned to the fact that he might need to go, thanks to bad polling, a total Democratic Party rebellion, and donor money drying up. The New York Times added this evening that Biden seems prepared to accept that he needs to back away: 

Several people close to President Biden said on Thursday that they believe he has begun to accept the idea that he may not be able to win in November and may have to drop out of the race, bowing to the growing demands of many anxious members of his party. 

One of the people close to him warned that the president had not yet made up his mind to leave the race after three weeks of insisting that almost nothing would drive him out. But another said that “reality is setting in,” and that it would not be a surprise if Mr. Biden made an announcement soon endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement. 

This account is based on interviews with four people close to the president, all of whom described the situation as extremely delicate and spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid offending the president. Mr. Biden remained in isolation at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., after being diagnosed with Covid on Wednesday. 

Many other Democrats more distant from the White House said expectations were rising within the party that the president would soon relent, a shift from just days ago when many were in despair about changing his mind. But there was also caution about reading signs from a president with an exceedingly small circle of confidants. 

The latest Democratic defection to become public came from Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a key member of the House committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. A letter he sent to Mr. Biden on July 6 and obtained by The New York Times on Thursday compared the 81-year-old commander in chief to a tiring baseball pitcher and urged him to consult with fellow Democrats about whether to continue his campaign. “Everything we believe in is on the line in the next four and a half months,” Mr. Raskin wrote. 

In The Washington Post, Nancy Pelosi is telling Democratic allies that the president “may soon” be persuaded to step down: 

Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi has told some House Democrats she believes President Biden can be persuaded fairly soon to exit the presidential race amid serious doubts he can win in November, according to three Democratic officials familiar with her private discussions. 

Following Biden’s halting debate performance, and the panic it unleashed among Democrats in and outside of Washington, Pelosi is taking a strong, behind-the-scenes role in trying to resolve the political crisis by playing intermediary for upset rank-and-file Democrats and relaying those messages to the White House. 

The former speaker, who left her leadership post in 2022 but still wields enormous clout, has told California Democrats and some members of House leadership that she thinks Biden is getting close to deciding to abandon his presidential bid. Some Democrats fear that by staying in, Biden will end up handing the White House to Donald Trump, three Democratic officials said. 

“Speaker Pelosi respects the confidentiality of her meetings and conversations with the president of the United States,” a spokesperson for the former speaker said. 

Biden’s campaign advisers continued Thursday to dismiss talk of replacing him on the ballot. “I don’t want to be rude but I don’t know how many more times we can answer that. Joe Biden has said he is running for President of the United States. Our campaign is moving forward,” Quentin Folks, deputy campaign manager, told reporters at a news conference outside the Republican National Committee in Milwaukee. 

While Democratic disunity and chaos are good, we must hope these developments are false. Yes, we must hope Biden’s communications team is right and the president will remain for the projected Electoral College blowout he’s about to experience. The latest round of polls shows that Trump is leading in all the crucial battleground states. Even Virginia is now showing Trump with a slight lead over Biden. The president has remained adamant that the polls are wrong. However, it’s becoming clear that forces within the Democratic Party, some very powerful voices at that, want him gone, and this weekend might be the final opportunity to make a change.

At this point, I'm confident the Republicans can defeat anyone the Democrats put up should Biden be wheeled into political retirement, but it's becoming more likely that he will lose his re-election bid. For now, he holds the Democrats hostage since he has the pledged delegates. We shall see what happens this weekend. 

Joe, please stay. 

1. Arizona (+7)
2. Georgia (+4)
3. Michigan (+2)
4. Nevada (+4)
5. North Carolina (+4)
6. Pennsylvania (+3)
7. Wisconsin (+5) https://t.co/YKtWxCHBxc— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) July 18, 2024

🚨Trump has moved ahead of Biden in the RCP Average in Virginia.

https://t.co/FwDFIGOgHa pic.twitter.com/Mwgg6Ie9Mp— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) July 18, 2024

[ChessExpert]

I’d love it if it played out that way.

[enumerated]

Since it is going to happen, I say the sooner the better.

Three months is plenty of time for Biden’s replacement (Harris) to face some sort of national crisis and screw it up.

The worst case scenario is Biden being replaced just a week or two before the election, giving his replacement a clean slate and no time to screw up.

[pfflier]

The only way this is good news, is if Kamala is passed over and a certain demographic stays home Election Day

Ahhh...michael obama would bring them right back.

[chuckee]

I think they are over the hump of convincing Biden to withdraw. They have no intention of having loser Kamala as their standard bearer because she is sure to lose them as many and more congressional seats than Biden.This is about saving their own congressional skins in making sure Biden endorses no one, effectively leaving Kamala out in the cold and throwing the selection to an open convention of anonymous delegates who will select the candidate. Their black constituency cannot finger any one specifically for passing over the imbecile and ultimately will get over it.

[monkeyshine]

I still don’t know how Biden dropping out helps the Democrats. TPTB still have to answer for why they waited so long to admit out loud what at least half the country already knew. So instead of voting for the guy who is sick, vote for one of the people who covered it up for years?

[9YearLurker]

Normally, that would be a huge boost for Harris. But in her case, the more she is known and seen the worse her chances are.

I don’t expect her to get the nomination either way, however. Unfortunately.

[Luke21]

Let them fight. Let him stay as prez. It’s the best of everything for us. Their administration is abysmal.

[Jim Noble]

Whatever the political purpose, wishing Biden in office one more second that necessary is disgraceful.

Every day without a President pushes the nation closer towards danger.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Joe Biden should be allowed to run. It is ageism to discriminate against the elderly.

Democrats are hypocrites! It is pure ageism to badger Joe Biden to quit.

Run, Joe, Run!

[FreedomForce]

Ramaswamy says that if they’re going to cut Kamala out, they have to replace her with a black woman. He’s been saying a long time that they’re going to run Michelle Obama, and he’s still saying it.

[painter]

Delicate negotiations?

$100 Million and a pardon for Hunter

[ChessExpert]

I saw a chart somewhere that showed how the parties voted on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and on the significance of those amendments. Democrats voted against freeing slaves, against Blacks getting the vote, and against Black citizenship.

It’s so simple. Snopes admits the truth but says, blah, blah, blah. To paraphrase Truman, we’ll tell them the truth, and it will feel like hell.

[Jim Noble]

Don’t be ridiculous.

Harris has no base of support in the black community.

1) She’s not really black
2) She married a Jew
3) She got her start sending brothers up for weed

[ansel12]

I thought Clinton was done during the primary when the Jennifer Flowers story of an 11 year affair and heavy cocaine use and the audio proof tapes came out, but he won the primary and then the election.

[Fresh Wind]

The sad thing is that most democRAT voters are completely unable to understand that changing the puppet in the White House won’t make a bit of difference in the way the country is being run. The borders will still be wide open, the idiotic green new deal will still be looming, our kids will still be indoctrinated with all kinds of philosophical and sexual crap, and the forever wars will go on as always.

[Williams]

But it seems true.

[StAnDeliver]

"Ramaswamy says that if they’re going to cut Kamala out, they have to replace her with a black woman. He’s been saying a long time that they’re going to run Michelle Obama, and he’s still saying it."

I'm just going to keep reposting this whenever my offsite notifications tell me that FreeRepublic has posted in futility for the eleventy-billionth time that ("'Mich*' NEAR3 'Obama'" AND "'Presiden*' OR 'Elect*'"):

Michelle Obama will never run for any public office.

Wny? Because she cannot afford to be asked by the MSM, even once:

"Mrs. Obama, why did you marry a homosexual fantisizer*? Did Obama cheat on you with other men? What about his body man Reggie Love? Are your kids actually Obama's? You live with a gay man -- why don't you get a divorce?"

* Obama's own biographer said that Bobo was not just on the down-low but a homosexual fantasizer. That revelation came from Obama's official biographer -- a Putlitzer Prize winner in the employ of the Manhattan publishing houses -- oy gevalt!

For Mooch to run brings cruel shame to her daughters and pre-empts any political aspirations from any of the Obama Army: Rice, ValJar, and last and least, Karamela. Oh and yeah, it would destroy Bobo's ever-shrinking legacy, just in time for the opening of his Mau Mau White Hut Library.

[CarolinaReaganFan]

sat it ain’t so joe....
please stay.
Lets go Branden!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Here is one social conservative who will crawl over the proverbial broken glass to help Trump get elected. If the Democrats win, we get nothing, and worse.

[DIRTYSECRET]

*I thought Clinton was done when the Jennifer Flowers affair and heavy cocaine use -audio tapes came out, but he won the primary and then the election.*

The black son story didn’t come out. Was Lee Atwater still alive then?