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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IMO Biden did not even write or sign the letter. He was told what was going to happen.
Biden finally got it through his addled brain that if he didn’t step aside, the Dems would eventually 25th Amendment him and he did not want the embarrassment and public memory of being the first president declared too incompetent to fulfill his presidency. Now that he has stepped aside the drumbeat by both parties to remove him has quieted down from the left. And there isn’t enough Dems and Repubs that will vote to remove him. He will be allowed to fill out his term and retire.
Oh you bet, Jill didn’t go quietly without a huge payday.
Once this all settles down, she will dump joe in an alzheimers facility, pick up some boy toy and spend a lot of time in Paris.
Jill has probably been told—one person is going to die today.
You or Joe.
You get to pick....
They didn’t pay her a dime.
The signature on the letter isn't even close to Joe's Presidential Signature as posted on Wikipedia.
SpyNavy
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None. They just took away his "looking alive" shots.
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