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Biden aides only had 1-minute warning that he was dropping out
Fox 61 ^

Posted on 07/21/2024 7:53:21 PM PDT by matt04

At 1:45 p.m. Sunday, President Joe Biden’s senior staff was notified that he was stepping away from the 2024 race. At 1:46 p.m., that message was made public.

It was never Biden’s intention to leave the race: Up until he decided to step aside Sunday, he was all in.

His campaign was planning fundraisers and events and setting up travel over the next few weeks. But even as Biden was publicly dug in and insisting he was staying in the race, he was quietly reflecting on the disaster of the past few weeks, on the past three years of his presidency and on the scope of his half-century career in politics.

In the end, it was the president’s decision alone, and he made it quietly, from his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, sick with COVID-19, the first lady with him as he talked it through with a small circle of people who have been with him for decades.

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It wasn’t until Saturday evening that Biden began to come to the conclusion that he would not run for reelection. He started writing a letter to the American people.

Biden had been off the campaign trail for a few days, isolated because of COVID-19, when it all started to deeply sink in — his worsening chances of being able to defeat Donald Trump with so much of his party in open rebellion, seeking to push him out of the race — not to mention the persistent voter concerns about his age that were only exacerbated by the catastrophic debate.

Biden was at his beach home with some of his and Jill Biden's closest aides: chief strategist Mike Donilon, counselor to the president Steve Ricchetti, White House deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini, and Anthony Bernal, senior adviser to the FLOTUS

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; annietomasini; anthonybernal; biden; harris; mikedonilon; stevericchetti
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Strange. If Harris and Biden consulted, why didn't he endorse her in the letter rather wait 30 mins? Something seems off about this whole thing.
1 posted on 07/21/2024 7:53:21 PM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04

Man is he going to be surprised tomorrow when they remind him of what he did today.


2 posted on 07/21/2024 7:54:42 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: matt04

I do hope someone’s told David Letterman about it.


3 posted on 07/21/2024 7:54:57 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: matt04

If I needed to fertilize my garden, this whole excerpted post would make it grow 10X normal application.


4 posted on 07/21/2024 7:56:26 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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nice guy


5 posted on 07/21/2024 7:56:56 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: matt04

Losers and suckers are they!


6 posted on 07/21/2024 7:57:07 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: matt04

The puppet masters sat Biden down with a pre-written note and a pen and assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on that letter.


7 posted on 07/21/2024 7:57:20 PM PDT by mbrfl
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Because he could care less about Harris and it was only afterward that he was forced to address her.


8 posted on 07/21/2024 7:57:40 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump / Vance 2024 - Make America Great Again)
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To: matt04

That’s because President Retard forgot to tell them


9 posted on 07/21/2024 7:57:49 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: matt04

I suspect Biden may have been threatened or I should say Hunter was threatened..with a long prison time or worse. What I wonder how they got around Jill?


10 posted on 07/21/2024 7:58:10 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: matt04

That’s own way to prevent leaks.


11 posted on 07/21/2024 8:00:27 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: mbrfl

This.


12 posted on 07/21/2024 8:00:55 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Nessun Dorma.)
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To: matt04
Wow!

Reading your post #1, do you really think the Potato has the ability to do any of those things?

The Potato was Told he was going home to Delaware to die… with ice cream.

13 posted on 07/21/2024 8:01:09 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Maybe Joe’s in a coma, and they do have his electric signature machine, and they’re hoping to get one more fat paycheck.


14 posted on 07/21/2024 8:02:51 PM PDT by cookcounty (Uuuuuuhh.)
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To: matt04

Robert Barnes today:
Soviet-style coup.

The Democrat Soviet took The Tater out to his Delaware dacha and let him listen to the news that he’s not running.

And the Rutabaga-In-Chief also found out that he is endorsing vice president “Big Gulp”.


15 posted on 07/21/2024 8:03:37 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: matt04
Video of aides convincing Biden to drop out.
16 posted on 07/21/2024 8:04:26 PM PDT by Petrosius
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That’s nothing. Biden had only a 30 second warning that he was dropping out


17 posted on 07/21/2024 8:04:45 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: mbrfl

This.


18 posted on 07/21/2024 8:04:45 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: kiryandil

You know that makes a lot of sense.


19 posted on 07/21/2024 8:05:50 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: matt04

He wanted to have the historic letter separate from the crass endorsement message.

Part of the bronze plaque wording when his sculpture is put up on Mt. Rushmore.


20 posted on 07/21/2024 8:07:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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