Posted on 07/18/2024 5:54:00 PM PDT by conservative98
Journalist and Newsmax commentator Mark Halperin said Thursday that multiple sources have told him embattled President Joe Biden plans to withdraw from the presidential election as early as this weekend, with Sunday most likely.
"According to multiple Democratic sources, this is happening all of a sudden," Halperin told "Carl Higbie FRONTLINE" from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. "Everyone said it would happen gradually and then all at once. And that's what's happening. According to my sources, President Biden has agreed to step down as the Democratic nominee. It will happen as early as this weekend.
"A speech has been drafted for him. He will continue on as president. He also will not, I'm told, endorse Vice President [Kamala] Harris as his successor. They're hoping that he will endorse an open process in which the convention will be open to Vice President Harris and a few other candidates in Chicago to pick the Democratic nominee for president."
Halperin first broke the news earlier Thursday in a post on his X account.
Harris has been viewed by many political observers as a likely successor to Biden should he step down. Halperin said Harris is vetting potential running mates in advance of the party's convention Aug. 19-22 in Chicago.
Halperin told "FRONTLINE" that among possible running mates for Harris are Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. In his post on X, he mentioned Beshear and Shapiro are among four possible running mates.
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I think this is just more of the lefties trying to push Biden out.
Is Jill packing up the White House China and the silverware? Don’t forget the drapes Jill!!
Newsmax. We have zero friends in the media.
“...Likely This Weekend”
Meaning they haven’t talked him into it yet.
Attempt to distract from TRUMP’S Victory Speech and Melania and family on stage.
Libtard Mockingbird Halperin thinks that? Noooooooooo!!!!!
really?
This isn’t a democratic insurgent fake it till you make it operation is it?
That must be why I have seen this story here about 40 times today.
Lunacy. Stay in Joe!
lol . mark lefty lying H.
A complete dem operative thats never met truth .
Con man .
At least one source needs to go on the record on this story.
Otherwise it is just rumor.
Bing9 .exactly .
This dem trying to
diminish troy time tonite .
liar.
She won’t forget the drapes, she wears them.
They can’t do this without giving Republicans fuel to challenge EVERY decision Bite-Me has taken in his entire administration on the grounds that he is and has been mentally incompetent.
Mark Halperin groped any women lately? He had at least 5 sexual assault/harassment complaints against him.
“She won’t forget the drapes, she wears them.”
I almost spit out my cantaloupe, lol!
too funny!!
that’s an interesting take. And if he bows out now after all the media coverage of his incompetence/dementia, that reason would be front and center.
Maybe his sources were women who told him garbage just to get him out of their offices.
:-)
But… He can still ‘run the world’. He’s too much of a vegetable to be the Democratic nominee, but ‘running the world’ is so much easier than that.
If anyone in the WH was behind the sniper attack on DJT, we’ll have a better chance of finding out once Joe goes away.
I hope he stays, though.
Let them sink in their own quicksand.
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