Posted on 07/21/2024 10:58:27 AM PDT by thegagline
President Biden made the historically rare decision Sunday to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, less than four months after being declared the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee and days after a dismal debate showing.
The 81-year-old president’s exit from the race – months before Election Day – comes after a debate performance against former President Donald Trump in which the incumbent appeared infirm and was at times incoherent – alarming Democratic donors and strategists.
Biden’s withdrawal is expected to set off a free-for-all for the Democratic nomination for president.
The president cannot by decree select his replacement atop the 2024 ticket. Vice President Kamala Harris, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and former first lady Michelle Obama have all previously been floated as possible replacements for Biden.
Harris, 59, is widely seen as the frontrunner due to legal constraints over the transfer of the Biden-Harris campaign’s war chest but many Democrats doubt her viability in the general election due to her favorability ratings often lagging even Biden’s.
Biden opted to throw in the towel after a series of embarrassing revelations that senior party leaders had no confidence in his ability to win — amid a mounting mutiny among rank-and-file congressional Democrats fearful that they too would lose if Biden went down in a landslide loss.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) were among those who warned Biden about bleak polling data — while former President Barack Obama reportedly confided in allies that he had lost confidence in Biden’s path to another term.
The president launched his re-election bid in April 2023, asking voters to give him another four years to help him “finish the job.”
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There was some talk of allowing pledged delegates to vote their conscience on the first ballot of the D convention. That could have led to a humiliating loss for Biden.
Perhaps that had something to do with it.
ZEEPERS HARDEST HIT BOO HOO
Whoever runs in his place should be called:
Biden Part Deux...
since the policies won’t change.
No, he would do “the right thing” by quitting. All the junk spewed out of the mouths of Hillary, Pelosi and Obama and not one word about the impact on the USA of having a senile fool as “president”.
Mark Halperin was right...he said it was gonna happen Sunday.
But not resign the presidency.
The country will continue to be run by unelected staff and the Democrat Mafia.
DU is absolutely blowing up. Hand wringing, pearl clutching, convulsing on the floor.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1002
Warning - Language. Language everywhere.
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It’s possible that Biden doesn’t even know he dropped out.
Biden can’t pardon anyone until they are convicted. So once he’s gone, those family members are going to be unprotected.
Now the Dems can canonize pedo Joe and tell us how great he was
I wonder who ran the White House for the last few years? Who made the policy decisions?
Chicago 1968 all over again
Biden must resign now!
Now the drum beat begins. If he is not fit to run, why is he fit to preside?
Aw, man. DU is “now undergoing planned maintenance.” Whaddaya know...
So he’s too impaired to run for office, but not too impaired to continue on as prez...
Riiiiiight.
Rigging more like it the party needs another stooge in office to pull of the take over they have one agenda Marxism or nothing.
How can that be? Ford pardoned Nixon - he wasn’t convicted of anything
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