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

[right way right]

The fight will still be against the same evil entities so, I see no reason the panic.
We need to fight the coming voter fraud.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

The election isn’t just about Biden’s impairments. It is also about the disasterous policies and plans of the Biden Administration, which will continue in some form whether Biden or some other Democrat is elected. If one of the guys on Mount Rushmore came back and governed with Biden’s policies, he would suck as badly as Biden does. Run on that.

[ansel12]

Atwater died in March of 1991.

The primary was Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown, Paul Tsongas, Tom Harkin, and Bob Kerrey.

[SteveH]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/eric-trump-pissed-off-secret-service-agents-line-fire-demands-answers

eric t made the point that ss officers could have died under fire on stage with his father. (so, gross incompetence by the SS but not conspiracy?)

[cgbg]

Article source:

“four people close to the president”

Pathetic journalism—name some names.

[Brian Griffin]

Quotes:

Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens, describes what happened after a teacher called her brother “Mr. Buh-buh-buh Biden” as he recited an assignment in class.

Their mother, she says, marched Biden back to school and confronted his teacher head-on: “‘Sister, did you make fun of my son? … if you ever, ever, ever do that again, I’m going to come back and I’m going to knock your bonnet right off your head. Do we understand each other?’”

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/bidens-stutter-how-a-childhood-battle-shaped-his-approach-to-life-and-politics/

[Organic Panic]

GO BRANDON GO!!! You can do it Biden. You’re the best president in history. You are the only one standing between NAZI America and democracy. You are the first black, Puerto Rican, Jew, Greek, Pole, Catholic, Chomo president. The economy has never been better. Every one LOVES paying the student debts of losers. Blacks can’t be black if they don’t vote for you. You ended inflation with your inflation reduction act. World peace has broken out all over the world. GO BIDEN GO!!!

[gibsonguy]

Put up a gd monkey with a big blue ‘D’ on its shirt and dems will vote for it. “

You said it. Just look at those poll numbers. With all that has happened Trump only manages a 0-5 point lead the swing states. WTH would it take for Traitor Joe’s numbers to take a real dive? We are a nation of idiots.

[TigersEye]

Hopefully Joe will come out of his basement and announce that he's still "In it to win it!"

And add "Look, man, I had covid but it's no big deal. That's my third case and look at me. I don't know why people even talk about it."

[JayGalt]

I think this is what the poster is referencing.

The ex-president’s son indicated that he saw abortion rights as a comparatively minor issue in the face of others such as inflation. Speaking on NBC News, he was asked directly why the platform omitted support for an abortion ban.

“My father has always been there on those issues,” claimed Eric Trump. “That’s reflective of my father and what he believes in… and my wife Lara who runs the RNC and what she believes in. At the end of the day, this country has holes in the roof, and you’ve got to fix those holes and stop worrying about the spot on the wall in the basement.”

To those who think abortion is the only issue any suggestion that abortion should be a state’s rights issue which it now is, and that a National bam on abortion is not achievable is anathema.
They ignore the fact that countries with an abortion ban have an abortion rate very close to Countries that allow some abortions. These people ignore all the other problems destroying the Country to demonize anyone who tells the truth: Trying to criminalizing all abortions in the US is unachievable and will allow the left to destroy the Nation as the American electorate recoils.
Crusading for marriage limited to between a man and a woman is similar. That genie cannot be put back into the box and the people alienated by diatribes would leave all the other issues destroying our Country in the hands of the left.

Fight Fight Fight but fight smart. Keep in mind what can be achieved now, savor successes, build on them and be open to what may be achieved by patience and time.

[DrewsMum]

Omg. I missed that. I’m glad.

[deport]

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution were passed by Congress between 1864 and 1870 as part of the Civil War amendments. After passage, three-fourths of the states needed to ratify the amendments:
13th Amendment
Passed by the House in January 1865 with a vote of 119–56, and ratified by 27 of 36 states on December 6, 1865. President Lincoln signed the document as a symbolic gesture of approval, and then sent it to the states for ratification.
14th Amendment
Submitted to the states on June 16, 1866, and ratified by 28 of 37 states on July 28, 1868.
15th Amendment
Passed by the Senate on February 26, 1869 with a final vote of 39 to 13, and ratified by 29 of 37 states on March 30, 1870.

[dware]

Been saying for months now, Biden won’t be the nominee. If you couldn’t see this coming a year ago, you’re really not paying attention.

[DrewsMum]

He got that from Ted Cruz who’s been saying it for almost a year now.

[Billie Bud]

The reality of that is very real when you see the social media posts for the vast majority of Americans who believe the nonsense. We have at least two generations who do not know how to discern truth from propaganda.

this is why I say it does not matter if the GOP ran the most righteous and perfect candidate…what matters is the voting block and what the world view is of the majority of that block. In our country, they’ve been indoctrinated by leftists for half a century. Until that changes, this will worsen.

[CatOwner]

And coming from Newsmax, no less.

[Peter ODonnell]

I can understand why people want Biden to stay in, but he’s out for sure given the volume of criticism from within his party, so we should get ready for a different fight. Whoever they nominate will be stuck with most of Biden’s fiascos, unless they pledge to go in a new direction. That is the danger, I suppose, of having a new candidate, not Kamala, not necessarily carrying all of Biden’s baggage, and frankly, able to lie about what they would do on various issues, knowing they can walk it back next year if elected.

[Ronin]

The way Biden sees it, the Democrats stole the election for him in 2020, so all he has to do is hang on and force them to steal it again. A fair fight is not on his agenda.

[JesusIsLord]

Which is good. I want to see Biden at the convention freezing up...

I want to see Biden 'confirmed' at the DN Convention. He'll not only lose badly to Trump, he'll drag down democrats down-ballot.

FReepers - contact the White House and encourage Joe to run, seriously!

Re: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

[SunkenCiv]

• Biden Has Agreed To Step Down, Will Not Endorse Kamala Harris As Successor: Report [07/18/2024]