President Joe Biden has dug in on his internal fight with Democrats….
THAT seems to take up more of time than dealing with Donald Trump….
In a straight look at polling numbers which show Biden tailing Trump by very small margins….
Biden IS actually holding his own and inching forward after a lousy debate and even after Donald Trump got shot….
Biden’s problem seems to be swing states, where he trails Trump by low single digits….
Those same states have ‘undecided ‘ votes close to 10%….
Meaning THOSE voters WILL decide the way the state goes….
Biden , who WAS in never never’ land up to the debate NOW has presented himself more to the media and public….
Very few Democrats are actually pushing for him to step down….
Most Democratic pundits ARE….
The President HAS dug in…..
Has cut out doubting staff and IS working to get a early lock on the nomination…..
This while a small group of Democrats mount a counter offensive to ready a Kamala Harris switch….
Harris actually polls behind Biden against Trump….
Oh,?
The Vice President has been out campaigning FOR HER Boss…..
President Joe Biden spent more than a week in meetings and on phone calls addressing Democrats’ concerns about his candidacy with a positive, conciliatory message about his path forward. At times, he even sounded contrite about his uneven debate performance, which prompted calls for him to suspend his re-election campaign.
He took blunt questions about his mental acuity in stride. He smiled through suggestions from allies that he take a cognitive test or consider allowing someone younger to take his place on the Democratic ticket. He agreed that his supporters have legitimate concerns and promised to show them he’s up for the rigor of a presidential campaign and another four years in the White House.
Then he’d had enough.
In the past few days, Biden has started to privately convey a new message to Democrats: The conversation about my future is over, and I’m getting irritated that you’re not realizing that. Biden has called several prominent allies individually to tell them to spread the word.
“We think we’ve got a good plan to fight through this,” a senior Biden aide said.
Nearly three weeks since his rocky debate performance that shook his party, Biden is intent on shutting down dissent among Democrats in order to move forward and focus on defeating Donald Trump. And after hearing out his critics, he’s tightening his circle to those he‘s relied on the longest — and who support his path ahead.
Biden’s thinning patience for questions about his candidacy were on display as he campaigned Friday in Detroit telling a large, effusive crowd: “You made me the nominee. No one else. Not the press, not the pundits, not the insiders, not donors.”
“And I’m not going anywhere,” Biden added.
In private calls with Democratic lawmakers on Saturday, he also made clear he finds the continued conversations about whether he should remain in the race exasperating…..
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The assassination attempt on Trump unfolded just hours later, and some of the plans the president and his aides had for plowing ahead with his campaign were put on hold. But on Tuesday, Biden was back on schedule, traveling to Nevada for events this week that focus on Black and Latino voters.
At an event hosted by the NAACP, Biden, who is fond of comparisons to Franklin Roosevelt, instead found kinship in Harry Truman’s famous quote that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
“After the last couple weeks I know what he means,” he said.
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Simon Rosenberg, a veteran Democratic operative, is pushing back on the narrative that the polling has collapsed for Biden, saying if there’s evidence, then it should be put forward for public inspection.
“People have got to be a little bit careful with the data,” Rosenberg said, referring to a 538 forecast on Friday that showed Biden had slightly better odds of winning in November than Trump. “There’s not been any big shift in the race, which is what we all believed on the Saturday after the debate.”…..
image….Christian Science Monitor
Polls show the majority of Democrats in the country want Biden to step aside.
Now comes a report that shortly before the assassination attempt Biden engaged in a in what has been described as a “ rambling Zoom call with a group of moderate Democratic Congresspeople.
Biden would lose his train of thought and give disjointed responses to questions in what some participants described as “ even worse than the debate.”
One Congressman described him as insulting to some ,dismissive of concerns ,and unable to present a campaign strategy.
The President can play this tough guy act all he wants and for sure such works with the likes of our moderator whose cheerleader type of “ analysis “ is well known here and almost always wrong .
The Democratic Party is headed for a major disaster if Biden remains at the top of the ticket.
Every other Democrat outperforms Biden
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2024/07/17/new-polling-bolsters-dump-biden-push-00168943
President Biden has tested positive for Covid.
I hope he will recover very quickly
Earlier today, he said in an interview, he might drop out if a health condition emerged.