'We're close to the end': Biden world braces for the possibility that the president steps aside
'We're close to the end': Biden world braces for the possibility that the president steps aside
As Trump is about to accept his third consecutive GOP nomination for president, Biden is off the campaign trail with Covid.
I love the suggestion that he drops out right before Trump's speech, completely taking the air out of the room.
Idk, trumps crazy enough that could just energize him more. Or he'll just ignore it.
see sleepy Joe was so scared of me he dropped out
That will be the line regardless.
Should he decide to step aside, it’ll be fun watching the pivot from ‘Biden should step down’ to ‘how could the dnc just pick someone like that, how undemocratic!’ Same people, same agenda.
I don't think it's a pivot to say now that he's chosen to step down we can continue. It's still honoring the process so long as the choice themselves steps aside voluntarily.
A lot of states (mine included) have already had their primaries, so if he steps aside then those states will not have had a say in selecting the democratic candidate. I’m guessing the talking point will then shift to something along the lines of ‘I didn’t get a choice in who the next candidate will be, so I’m not voting’ or calling for all states to re-run their primaries like that’s an option.
The media reporting on these issues has been insane lately; even sources that are left leaning seem like they’re on trump’s side. What’s with the comment in this article about Biden retreating to his vacation home while trump is out after his brush with death? Biden has a still highly contagious disease and trump’s ear got scratched.
That's how voters see it. Trump has framed the race as weakness VS strength, and everything in the last 3 weeks fits that perfectly. The debate, Bidens halting interviews since the debate, and now strong Trump got shot weak Biden back in basement. The covid stuff is bullshit, but that's how voters see it. This is a campaign.
I'm getting tired of democrats blaming the media for voters just not liking Biden. Biden his had shit approval ratings his whole term because he can't message his accomplishments, hides from the press cause they know he's too old to speak coherently, and surprise piccacho face when he's down 5 nationally, at least down 3 in every swing state after the debate. This is Hillary all over again. Candidate hated by the voters feeling like they have some right to the presidency gets trounce leaving us with authoratians in charge. Like RBG not stepping down leaving us with a 6-3 conservative super majority. But sure blame the media.
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I’m sorry, where did I blame the media for his bad poll numbers? I’m just stating that the media has been covering trump differently than it has been covering Biden this election cycle and provided an example from this article. No one should be out and about while they have a highly contagious disease and it’s be ridiculous if trump stayed out of the rnc because his ear got scratched.
Biden his had shit approval ratings his whole term because he can't message his accomplishments
And he constantly over-states and mis-states what he has done. No, inflation wasn't at 9% when you took office. No, you don't get credit for the student loan forgiveness when the courts immediately reversed everything you tried to do. No, you don't get credit for leaving Afghanistan, you poorly executed a plan Trump committed you into.
Article uses no names just people close to Biden
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Yes, that's how reporting with anonymous sources works. The person writing the article knows who they are and verified that they're "close to Biden". You just have to determine whether you think the author is just making it all up.
I'm close to Biden at an astronomic scale and I say he's actually fine and doing a Rocky IV style training montage on the side of Catoctin Mountain.
(But seriously, I hope he gets better. COVID fucking sucks.)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
As the extraordinary events have unfolded, the president tested positive with Covid on Wednesday and retreated to his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, taking him off the campaign trail.
Once again, it offered a sharp contrast with former President Donald Trump, who, even after his brush with death on Saturday, will appear at a raucous coronation at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday night.
In the hours after the assassination attempt on Trump last weekend, some Democrats said — even feared — that the calls for Biden to step aside would be “frozen” as the president dealt with a national crisis.
Some allies now say that the shooting, which has caused an even more intense rallying around Trump within his party, only makes it more glaringly obvious that the nagging narrative of whether Biden is on a cognitive decline cannot win the White House.
A sense of reality is beginning to wash over some of the president’s top campaign lieutenants, who have endured streams of phone calls from donors and one-time supporters flagging that they can no longer back Biden.
There has been a shift behind the scenes in the president’s openness to stepping aside, according to multiple people close to Biden, despite his aggressive insistence in public appearances and private phone calls with allies that he is not going anywhere.
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