The Candidate Whose Name is Yours? When Biden and Pelosi Came to The Final Sift: A Preliminary Address of his Nominating Convention
Indeed, many Democrats are still publicly supporting Biden, even as anxiety grows within their ranks. The issue is causing panic within the party just over a month before their August nominating convention in Chicago.
Some political allies of Biden may have been soothed by his interview, but they didn’t see the facility and coherence they would have liked. His thoughts were, at times, scattered and less than clear.
Biden again reiterated that he’s not getting out of the race, and even went so far as to claim that essentially no one else could do the job as well as he is doing it or be a better candidate against Trump.
Historian Douglas Brinkley once stated that being stubborn is a positive quality of presidential leadership.
To be clear, none has called for him to drop out, though Pelosi changed her tune and said it’s a legitimate question to ask whether Biden’s performance was an “episode” or a “condition.”“If Your friends and supporters in the Democratic Party will tell you if you stay in, that you will lose the House and the Senate. Stephanopoulos asked Biden.
He asked if anyone else could handle foreign policy as well as he can, even though he has diminished from what he was a few years ago.
Is it possible that his vice president isn’t also? Stephanopoulos didn’t follow up, but it was curious. Sure, everyone should think they can do a better job, but how close Biden has come to keeping Harris out of the race, and given how much he knows about her, is hard to say.
We are moving on to week two after the debate. It usually takes a couple of weeks for public opinion to solidify. Polls this week have shown Biden hurt by the debate – the degree to which is debatable.
It will help shore up the support if he is where he was before. Democrats will be calling for him to step aside if he keeps falling behind.
One party, the Republicans, doesn’t care if two dozen women have accused their nominee of sexual assault, if he paid off a porn star, or if he ran a fraudulent foundation.
Getting Out of Flavor: Why Don’t We Can’t Let It Happen Again? Comment on the Campaign of Biden on Sunday
The president was campaigning in Pennsylvania on Sunday as he pushes to try to resuscitate his reelection bid and as some Democrats urged him not to run.
He has been trying to demonstrate that his debate flub was just one bad night and not a sign of something more serious. He attended Sunday services at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ, where a praise band belted out the worship song, “I need you to survive,” and Bishop J. Louis Felton led a call-and-response for Biden, and urged unity.
“Forgive us for allowing the enemy to drive wedges between us,” Felton prayed. “Because if we ever lock arms and come together, there’s no election that we cannot win.”
Later, Biden stopped at a campaign field office where he gave some high-energy unscripted remarks about economic issues important to voters, like grocery and insulin prices.
“Dark Brandon’s coming back,” Biden said to a group of about 150 cheering volunteers, referring to a meme his campaign uses to mock his opponents. He said that in the next 120 or so days, they will get a good look at who Donald Trump is.
John Fetterman and Rep. Madeleine Dean were with Biden. “There is only one person in the country that’s ever kicked Trump’s ass in an election —and that is your president,” Fetterman said. He is going to do it twice.
On Sunday, top Democrats in the House were going to get together in a virtual meeting. Some appeared on Sunday morning political talk shows, reflecting the range of opinions within the party about whether Biden should stay at the top of the ticket.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said he wants Biden to “seek out people with some distance and objectivity” as he weighs his decision. He said that the comments Biden made on ABC on Friday didn’t put concerns to rest about his candidacy and that he gives it his all.
During the Independence Day holiday, Rep. Dingell said she is heard from voters who want Biden to stay in. “I had people in parades shout at me, ‘Tell him to stay — we have his back,'” she told CNN’s State of the Union. She believes that as much as you hear a lot of different opinions, that’s what’s happening.
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., said he had spoke with Biden on Saturday. The president talked about what he’s seeing in internally polling data, and what his plans were for coming days. “He is as pumped and as eager as I’ve seen to make sure he’s taking this campaign seriously,” Padilla told MSNBC.
Biden faces a critical week in Washington, as his party’s lawmakers return to Congress — and world leaders come to the city for a NATO summit, where Biden is set to give a rare solo press conference, where he will be faced with answering more questions about his age and abilities.
In Ann Arbor, Mich., Tom Brush called the current state of the Democratic race “a sad moment,” explaining he doubts whether Biden can make it through the election and had hoped the president would voluntarily step aside for the good of the party — perhaps for Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Brush, a long- time Democratic voter, said that people can reach a stage in their life when they are not vital as they once were.
Rep. Nadler and Rep. Takano: Why Do Republicans Care About Biden’s No-Go Theorem? The Case of the House Judiciary Committee
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary committee is Rep. Jerry Nadler, as well as Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state and Rep. Mark Takano of California.
But some Democrats were going public with their ire against calls for Biden to withdraw. Frederica Wilson said Democrats need to stop listening to the pundits and stop calling for Biden to quit the race.