With Pelosi, Schiff and possibly Schumer all involved now, you would assume an experienced politician like Biden can see where this is heading.
I just don’t see how he can run with three of the most high profile Democrat politicians publicly calling for him to step down. It really feels like a matter of time now and I wonder if “covid” is a good cover for a week or two of behind the scenes discussions on the succession plan.With Pelosi, Schiff and possibly Schumer all involved now, you would assume an experienced politician like Biden can see where this is heading.
A week or two is too much time to waste.I just don’t see how he can run with three of the most high profile Democrat politicians publicly calling for him to step down. It really feels like a matter of time now and I wonder if “covid” is a good cover for a week or two of behind the scenes discussions on the succession plan.
If only his memory of these conversations ever lasted beyond 30 minutes.
Depends what is happening in that week or two.A week or two is too much time to waste.
I have to assume they've prepared both, in detail.Depends what is happening in that week or two.
It’s a presidential candidacy, you need to stage manage his exit. He’s still President after all, if he’s not fit to run in November then why should he stay on as President until January?
Would they have a better chance in November with an incumbent? In which case Harris is the only one who can have that advantage, do they give her 4 months to prove she is presidential or do they go straight to a primary and let however many candidates hit chunks off each other while Trump does his tour of all the states with Republicans united behind him?
I think it would help Harris' chances, given her public profile isn't the highest, to be seen being President. Might give her a slight incumbency bump. But I think that could be perceived as a further indignity that Biden and his family wouldn't want to endure, to be the 2nd President in history to resign (considering that Nixon resigned in disgrace).Depends what is happening in that week or two.
It’s a presidential candidacy, you need to stage manage his exit. He’s still President after all, if he’s not fit to run in November then why should he stay on as President until January?
Would they have a better chance in November with an incumbent? In which case Harris is the only one who can have that advantage, do they give her 4 months to prove she is presidential or do they go straight to a primary and let however many candidates hit chunks off each other while Trump does his tour of all the states with Republicans united behind him?
Dunno, need to factor in the ready made mass media assault from the GOP machine, on her or whoever take Biden's place if he were to drop out.Could Harris win if appointed as a candidate instead of Biden?
I think the crucial factor is just that, as of today, Harris will do better than Biden. If it's enough remains to be seen.Dunno, need to factor in the ready made mass media assault from the GOP machine, on her or whoever take Biden's place if he were to drop out.
Yeah, the story will be that his ability to govern has not diminished (as his record shows) but that it’s about his electability, or at least his electability as perceived by the party. He would never resign, and he wouldn’t need to.I think it would help Harris' chances, given her public profile isn't the highest, to be seen being President. Might give her a slight incumbency bump. But I think that could be perceived as a further indignity that Biden and his family wouldn't want to endure, to be the 2nd President in history to resign (considering that Nixon resigned in disgrace).
I was just thinking this morning that they are probably scrambling right now to prepare attacks on all possible Biden alternatives.Dunno, need to factor in the ready made mass media assault from the GOP machine, on her or whoever take Biden's place if he were to drop out.
I saw this woman deliver a Sikh prayer at the RNC. As a fellow Sikh, I'm surprised to see her advocate for Trump and his minions. A lot of the comments I've seen on social media have been from Republicans denouncing the prayer and saying she doesn't believe in the one true God. It's clear the Republicans are just a racist outfit using these people for their own means yet they flock to Trump anyway.
These things aren't done for no reason. The new Republican approach is to target various subsections of society to broaden the Trump coalition.
I saw this woman deliver a Sikh prayer at the RNC. As a fellow Sikh, I'm surprised to see her advocate for Trump and his minions. A lot of the comments I've seen on social media have been from Republicans denouncing the prayer and saying she doesn't believe in the one true God. It's clear the Republicans are just a racist outfit using these people for their own means yet they flock to Trump anyway.
That may be the case but the reaction on social media from Republicans has been of racism and that she is deviating from the one true god (Jesus). I also question why she performs a Sikh prayer which is a religion of peace to some of the most dangerous right wing nutters going.
Yeah, Trump doesn't care one iota for any workers. That line just stands out on his policy document because it's the only line that has broader appeal outside the MAGA cultists and religious fundamentalist extremists.
Dump NVIDIA stock if Trump gets in.I'm sure the west will be fine without Taiwanese microprocessor units, right?
seems like an off-ramp to me...
Come on, Obama. Do your thing. Lay the hammer.
Pretty much.
Kamala will be so pissed. This is party apparatus trying to remove him before convention so they can slip in Newsom or someone else. She wants him to hang on until after the convention, and then will 25th Amendment him, and slip into his spot, and get Buttigeig as her VP.
Cause after the convention she's the only person who can easily replace him, and keep all the campaign stash.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/18/president-biden-drop-out-election-democrats
Top Democrats believe Biden will exit, says Axios.
This one might actually push things over the edge.
You really do just live on Brietbart don’t you? Absolutely cuckooPretty much.
Kamala will be so pissed. This is party apparatus trying to remove him before convention so they can slip in Newsom or someone else. She wants him to hang on until after the convention, and then will 25th Amendment him, and slip into his spot, and get Buttigeig as her VP.
Cause after the convention she's the only person who can easily replace him, and keep all the campaign stash.
Some saying he said "a black man". And the context is of him appointing a black secretary of defense as an accomplishment, I think?
Yup.I think he legit couldn't remember his name. Either way, it was embarrassingly incoherent and will only serve as the latest data point of his astonishing decline.
He will be the next spokesperson for the Argentinian football team.I think he legit couldn't remember his name. Either way, it was embarrassingly incoherent and will only serve as the latest data point of his astonishing decline.
