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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Attention-seeking behavior.
This last minute breakthrough tells me Joe was still dragging his feet to the very end. It would be fairly simple to put this president in a position where he would be willing (if not terribly eager) to make certain compromises.
Quid pro quo.
Eventually, Joe is going to have to repeat these “Suspending the Campaign!” statements on live camera, before most Americans could believe and except it.
This story is far too big for some machine generated memo, tossed out on a Sunday afternoon.
What a perfect excuse, he has covid. Squirrel him in Delaware, no one has seen him, President Trump didn’t die, so he’s dead.
This is utter crap.
Which is the same amount of warning that Joe Biden had that he was dropping out, so they shouldn’t feel too bad about it.
Notice that letter that was published was on a blank sheet of paper and not on White House Letter head?
Actually, the aids probably got one minute MORE warning that Biden was dropping out, than Joe himself did.
Better tell Kamala that. She is already locking down delegates. No one cares(that matters) if Joe does it live or vis carrier pigeon. The machine wanted him out, he is out. He has nothing to lose now.
Eric Weinstein
@EricRWeinstein
What you are seeing is the end of an officially enforced MASS DELUSION. This was always almost certain to happen.
Joe Biden has been mentally unfit for his entire administration. And this has been clear to EVERYONE who isn’t compromised. Think of *everyone* who stayed silent. The psychiatrists. The neurologists. The geriatric medicine specialists. The party leaders. The news organizations. The universities. Essentially all the experts. That is why I sound crazy to many of you. But we were right and...somehow...somehow...they were all silent
Oh, brother, tell me another one! "Then the great man sadly folded up his portfolio of excellence and regretfully declined to run for the good of his country." Right.
Joe the vegetable got his marching orders. It's as simple as that. No drama, no sacrifice, and no legacy.
Does Biden get to watch the nature movie before they turn the white-cracker into green crackers?
baloney they had since 2020 to know he was dropping out, Joe told them that himself before election.
I think we all could have told them for years ago that Joe couldn’t make it
This account is pure fabrication. Nothing like this happened. It leaves out Biden’s sulphuric fuming and ranting, not unlike Hitler in his Berlin bunker.
Coup coup ga, Joe
/I am the EggMander
Not until Tuesday.
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