You Will Anyway: Biden assholery

Saturday, July 20, 2024

Biden assholery

When pride goes too far...

A CBS News/YouGov poll published Thursday showed Trump now leading Biden by 5 points nationally, while an Emerson College poll showed the former president ahead in seven battleground states.

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Democratic strategists and party insiders say President Biden’s postdebate crisis response has been as damaging to his chances of beating former President Trump in November as the disastrous debate performance itself.

The Hill

Exactly, and this is how he'll be remembered. Old, incompetent and belligerent. What a shame for him, and a blow for the country.

[One Democratic strategist] said Biden appeared to be an underdog heading into the race, but his prospects of victory plummeted after the debate and further slipped after the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, Pa., which has united GOP and had a rallying effect on their voters.

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Gaffes Biden made at the NATO summit and in interviews with George Stephanopoulos and Black Entertainment Television, the waning support of media stalwarts such as MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, and the worsening divisions within the Democratic Party have only solidified the prevailing view that Biden can’t beat Trump.

Growing pessimism about Biden’s candidacy has fueled a new round of calls from Democratic lawmakers for him to drop out of the race to avoid a potential disaster in November.

Democratic strategists say those calls will multiply and get louder next week if Biden stays in the race past the weekend.

And they warn that Biden’s fundraising, which has taken a substantial hit this month, will continue to slacken [...] noting that not only major donors have withheld contributions but the grassroots “online money is slow,” as well.

Which hurts Kamala if she takes over the campaign job Biden is obviously unable to do.

[Biden] got into a tense exchange with Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) during a conference call last weekend after Crow asked whether concerns about Biden’s age, health and mental fitness posed a national security risk.

“I don’t want to hear that crap,” Biden responded, angrily.

At some point, presidential possible Democrats will be forced to challenge him for the job. And that point is coming very soon.

Meanwhile, donors are lining up to support Harris.

And the swing voters are the ones we need.

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