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Inside Biden’s unprecedented exit from the presidential race
CNN ^ | 7/21/24 | Jeremy Herb, MJ Lee, Jeff Zeleny, Phil Mattingly, Arlette Saenz and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN

Posted on 07/21/2024 4:59:35 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Rehoboth Beach, Delaware CNN —

In the end, President Joe Biden exited the political stage in isolation.

After weeks of fighting for his political life – insisting he wasn’t going anywhere following a disastrous debate performance – the president’s about-face did not come in an Oval Office address or a speech on the campaign trail. Instead, it came in letter posted to social media as he recovered from Covid-19 at his beach house in Delaware.

It was a low-key way to reveal one of the most historic decisions in modern American politics, but time was not on Biden’s side to reach a decision or make an announcement. Never before has a president left a reelection race this close to Election Day – and for 24 days it seemed as if he were stubbornly planning to ride out the storm that followed the June 27 CNN debate in Atlanta.

He spent the three weeks after the debate repeating that he was staying in the race against former President Donald Trump. The president dug in. He insisted he could beat Trump. His inner circle shrank to his closest aides and family. He was forced to retreat to Delaware, where he reached a decision in the last day-and-a-half, finally conceding that a man loyal to the Democratic Party for more than a half-century was seen as a drag on the ticket.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arlettesaenz; biden; bidendropout; covid; jeffzeleny; jeremyherb; lbj; lyndonjohnson; mjlee; nixon; philmattingly; priscillaalvarez
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To: DallasBiff

No one believes this $hat, written by the lying CNN/MSM, anymore.


21 posted on 07/21/2024 5:23:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: DallasBiff
“. . . it came in letter posted to social media as he recovered from Covid-19 at his beach house in Delaware.’

We were informed by letter today.

Has Joe been informed yet? If so, how?

22 posted on 07/21/2024 5:23:50 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Ann Archy

Probably a couple of them were ideological purity monitors.


23 posted on 07/21/2024 5:23:56 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: grey_whiskers

24 posted on 07/21/2024 5:25:22 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Ann Archy

Ha-ha! I agree bump!


25 posted on 07/21/2024 5:25:35 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DallasBiff

I can’t wait until Joe is un-presidented.


26 posted on 07/21/2024 5:27:47 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: DallasBiff

Unprecedented? Hardly is this precedent setting.


27 posted on 07/21/2024 5:27:53 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Diversity Is Our Weakness

Barack Obama is not eligible to be VP (thank goodness). From the 12th Amendment:

“But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”


28 posted on 07/21/2024 5:30:37 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: BradyLS

Funny you should say that. I’ve had this nagging feeling since yesterday that we’ll never hear Joe Biden speak in public again. Not necessarily because he is deceased or soon will be.

Just a feeling that he won’t fully recover from his “covid.” Or couldn’t recover politically from the assassination attempt on Trump ... what with so many strange anomalies coming out of that event.

But if he really did catch the Wuhan Flu again it could have wreaked havoc on what’s left of his brain and his ability to speak. He was barely functional prior.


29 posted on 07/21/2024 5:30:51 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: Leep

I find it highly suspicious that this was put out on social media and Biden’s campaign staff knew nothing about it. In fact, eight minutes after it was posted, they put out a campaign fundraising request for Biden-Harris. Who actually authorized this? I think Biden knew nothing about it. It was forced out because the handlers in the DNC and White House had run out of patience with Joe’s recalcitrance. Time was running out to get rid of him so they had to make their move.

He’ll probably suit up tomorrow to go campaigning only to discover he’s no longer a candidate. I can imagine the rages that will erupt in the White House. Lately, Joe has been more and more belligerent when people confront him about his mental deterioration. He won’t go quietly.


30 posted on 07/21/2024 5:31:09 PM PDT by PA Presbyterian (Never Surrender!)
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To: DallasBiff

Yeah, we’re about to be inundated with media reports that Biden was the greatest president America has ever seen - he brought peace, prosperity, economic security the likes the world has never seen before (this was promised to get him out). He’ll have the most lavish presidential library ever built...

It’s going to be insufferable between six months of slavering praise for Biden and insufferable admiration for Kamala Harris - the most qualified candidate that ever walked, she’ll bring peace, prosperity and...

(my grocery and tax bills say otherwise).


31 posted on 07/21/2024 5:31:47 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: DallasBiff

“expect the executive orders to come fast and furious.”

Might even start WW III on the way out. Why leave a piddling legacy.


32 posted on 07/21/2024 5:33:16 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Clhild in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: DallasBiff

They knew he would fall apart at the debate. That’s why they programmed it so early before the conventions. They needed time to bring in somebody else and hopefully have enough time before the elections to push Kamala through. Joe will still want his 10 percent of the election money. The one surprise is that Donald Trump survived.


33 posted on 07/21/2024 5:33:55 PM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: TigersEye

“I’ve had this nagging feeling since yesterday that we’ll never hear Joe Biden speak in public again”

They will lock him up in the basement. If they wheel him out Jill will be his ventriloquist.


34 posted on 07/21/2024 5:40:05 PM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: George J. Jetso

I hope Jill does a better job than KJP. But who couldn’t?


35 posted on 07/21/2024 5:43:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: RummyChick

Trump needs to stop using the democracy word and start emphasizing a Constitutional Republic.


36 posted on 07/21/2024 5:47:38 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Ann Archy

Hey Ann, can you type normally instead of like one of those pyscho chicks from the movie “Girl, Interrupted?”


37 posted on 07/21/2024 5:50:44 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: DallasBiff

Unprecedented? Both Truman and Johnson were incumbents who withdrew from the race.


38 posted on 07/21/2024 5:50:45 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: BradyLS
All the news reports treat him like he died earlier this afternoon. Fawning eulogies and everything. Everything about him is said in the past tense.

Tears are even being shed.

Democrats are strange.

And slimy.

39 posted on 07/21/2024 5:53:01 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: DallasBiff

I want to see prosecutions. I wouldnt mind the Democrat party line be carefully analyzed on some legal/moral basis and for one, ultimately forbidding anything resembling “woke culture” from ever taking shape in the USA again. Freedom of expression my azz. When men are competing in women’s athletic competitions....no...this crap must forever be smashed. God speed and protection to Donald Trump to Make America Straight Again. (oops).


40 posted on 07/21/2024 6:00:04 PM PDT by know.your.why
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