Doubtful he can.
Something else happened.
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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Yes and there’s proof of life talk and coup speculation. Who’s running the country? Nobody knows. If they dont trot Biden out real soon it will not shock me if we see an intervention.
“The puppet masters sat Biden down with a pre-written note and a pen”.
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Harkens back to Biden’s signing several bills (with sticky-notes to help) at one sitting: Biden asks, “Whar am I signing here?”
Nancy Pelosi’s voice can be heard “Just sign it”.
Doubtful he can.
Something else happened.
Biden didn’t decide or write anything. The decision was made for him and the statements were written by someone else. Whoever really in control has not figured out how to fully handle Harris endorsements, etc. yet. That’s why we’ll have to wait to hear “the rest of the story” this week.
They stuck a paper in front of him, the potato signed it without knowing what it was they threw it up on social media. I am betting the Potato was as surprised as anyone else to find out he was withdrawing from the race.
And as pointed out in the comments section, the plug gets pulled on SloJoe's campaign on National Ice Cream Day! How fitting!
The thing that’s “off” is Joe Biden.
The Democrats believe the public is ignorant. Yesterday they were trying to get rid of Biden. Today they’re praising him to the skies.
I can’t decide whether the Democratic Party is great theater or great bullsh_t.
That’s more warning than Biden himself got. He probably learned he was dropping out from the news.
🤣
If "they" let him speak publicly again, he's likely to behave as though he's still running.
In any case, the world has been shown that every Dem has been a dementia-denier all along.
Not a good look.
The signature was digital, so hmmm?
Total BS narrative. Don’t believe one word of it.
——quietly reflecting——
BS.
Scheming innocence is what he was doing
I say they made a deal to let Jill keep a lot of the campaign cash.
“Eventually, Joe is going to have to repeat these “Suspending the Campaign!” statements on live camera”
Biden will probably look like Harry Reid after Reid “fell off an exercise machine”....
Lol.
Gotta wonder if Hunter was involved in these decisions and how it plays into his court cases.
He dictated a letter and had it typed and signed it in just one minute? “Off” is an understatement.
I think Biden only had a one-minute warning that he was dropping out.
Much more likely. Mr. Spacely just said “Jetson, you’re fired!” and Biden pleaded, “But I’ve got a young son, Mr. Spacely. What’ll I tell Jane? What’ll I tell Elroy.” To which he answered, “Suck it up, monkey boy. This is it!”
The Babylon Bee doesn’t even work anymore. They just read the headlines and put their own spin on it.
Slackers.
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