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People Close to Biden Say He Appears to Accept He May Have to Leave the Race
NY Times ^ | 7/18.2024 | Michael D. Shear, Peter Baker and Katie Rogers

Posted on 07/18/2024 7:07:05 PM PDT by TomServo

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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acceptance; biden; bidensmentaldecline; dementiajoe; incompetentbiden
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To: TomServo
Nooooo Joe. Hang in there!! The Easter Bunny would want you to do it!!

In 2022, The Easter Bunny has to grab Biden TWICE and
THEN frantically waves its arms to get Biden's attention



61 posted on 07/19/2024 12:01:36 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: PLMerite

[“Appears to Accept”

What, did they have to get a psychic or something?]

Miss Cleo is on line #666


62 posted on 07/19/2024 12:03:30 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: cgbg

You’re right.

It’s the height of lunacy.


63 posted on 07/19/2024 12:21:51 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: cgbg

Biden could not name his Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, calling him a “Black man.”


64 posted on 07/19/2024 12:47:44 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: hal ogen

65 posted on 07/19/2024 1:42:56 AM PDT by Grim (Michael Moore is a big fat pig.)
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To: Owen

“The Trump haters are a huge number and they don’t care a bit about Biden.”

So, what you mean to say is that democrats will vote for biden out of pure SPITE and a brain filled with anger and bile.

The deep state/media campaign against DJT has been effective so I am inclined to believe it.


66 posted on 07/19/2024 3:15:22 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: TomServo

Dementia Joe has got to go


67 posted on 07/19/2024 3:21:27 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: TomServo

I think the people who really run the gov’t are hoping jojo has a stroke, aneurism, heart attack, or “accident”.


68 posted on 07/19/2024 3:39:03 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: lightman
Boo hoo, Coup Flu.

LOL! Yup. The same WuFlu that enabled his presidency is now ending it. Ironic, that.

69 posted on 07/19/2024 3:43:16 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump Triumphant !)
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To: TomServo

Stay in there, Joe! We’re all rooting for you! Corn Pop and Mouse are counting on you!


70 posted on 07/19/2024 3:48:15 AM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ("They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”)
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To: TomServo

America will be a better place when POSOTUS leaves the human race.


71 posted on 07/19/2024 4:00:57 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: TomServo

80 million voters want him to stay in the race...


72 posted on 07/19/2024 4:03:47 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: TomServo

I’ve said it on a few other threads, and I’ll say it here: I don’t want Biden to drop out. The Dems are discouraged and demoralized right now. Don’t give them any reason for hope. They “won” with Biden in 2020, they can go down in flames with him in 2024. Besides, all of this isn’t about Biden, it’s about the Left’s rabid hatred of all things Trump. I’ll say it again - hang in there, Joe!


73 posted on 07/19/2024 4:24:38 AM PDT by Kharis13
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To: TomServo

I do not believe JOe will drop . The BIden family will say “NO!”THey need to pay Biden about 300 million dollars, gurantee a Presidential Library , and support pardons and future immunity for Hunter Biden.

From what I see, no one is ponying up the goods that would convince Biden to drop out.

SHOW HIM THE MONEY ! BUahahahahahahahaa!

Joe is going to stay in for his family, especially to protect his son HUnter.


74 posted on 07/19/2024 4:57:57 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Candor7

The pathway is defined. Biden will be nominated. The DNC powers that be using DNC rules will declare Biden mentally and physically unfit to serve four years and will weaponizing the rules, cast him out. Then using the weaponized rules, will appoint a new candidate to run against Donald Trump.

(It will not be Kamela)


75 posted on 07/19/2024 5:01:58 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: TomServo

They are eating thier own because he cant win


76 posted on 07/19/2024 5:04:40 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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NYT astroturfing because Joe cannot punch back down with COVID. I don't believe a word of it, stage-managed bs. There's been no staff revolt, and as long as Dr. Jekill is silent, he ain't going.

OTOH, let's pull up this astroturfing by the roots. Call the White House switchboard and tell Joe to stay in the race. Tell Dr. Jekill to stay in the race! Tell him no one likes a QUITTER. Tell him you'll donate. Tell him the grass roots want him in. Lie your ass off, that should come easy to a lot of Freepers...

  • Call the White House

77 posted on 07/19/2024 5:18:00 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: TomServo

LOL. Will he or won’t he? The question is going back and forth more than a ball in a tennis match.

Ironically, I think its safe to compare Biden to Hitler at this point - Hitler in his last days in the bunker.


78 posted on 07/19/2024 5:37:50 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: lightman

Jill probably thinks she is next in line to take over due to royal right of succession.


79 posted on 07/19/2024 7:12:37 AM PDT by fwdude ( Never trust a movement whose symbol is a raised fist.)
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To: cgbg
Clown World on Twitter: Dems embrace #MAGA?

Make America....?

80 posted on 07/19/2024 7:16:08 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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