Gathered at Camp David, Biden’s family tells him to stay in the presidential race and keep fighting
Gathered at Camp David, Biden’s family tells him to stay in the presidential race and keep fighting
While his family was aware of how poorly he performed against Donald Trump, they also continue to think he’s the best person to beat the Republican presumptive nominee.
Like, why even bother with the election at all? Biden can just not participate in it, and stay in power as long as he does it as an official act. The Supreme Court just ruled that he’s allowed to do that.
The baffling part is how not only are we stuck with a two party system that keeps any significant changes from getting a foot hold, but also how we have so few choices with the parties we have. In a country of millions of leaders in various forms, we have nothing to pick from outside of Biden, and he's potentially losing to someone with Trump's long track record of failure both in politics and business. Remember when Trump running for office used to be a regular late night show joke for years?
The only hope for change in politics is local races, and even lots of those are pretty sad. "Get out and vote", yeah, but years of doing that hasn't really helped much, so pardon my pessimism. I'm not George Carlin level just yet, but I always understood his point.
Start a new party that isn't absolutely insane and has realistic views that can draw enough attention to compete.
Damn, the selfishness and out of touch arrogance is crazy. They really think they're entitled to power, even at the cost of our democracy.
Ah, so you can name a better candidate at this time who can swoop in and beat Trump? Maybe if they started campaigning 2 years ago and were accepted by the DNC. Good luck with that.
The shortsightedness of ya’ll to call him remaining in a race he’s been working on for 4 years is astounding. Is the best we can muster? Certainly not. Is he the best we can muster right now? Unfortunately. It’s him or Trump, so deal with it.
Whitmer, klobuchar, newsom , Warnock, pritzker, hell i'll even take buttigieg, literally anyone on the 2020 debate stage before the center collapsed in on Joe Biden after Obama told them too.
What campaign, he's literally running on being better then trump and he still somehow failed at that, put anyone else on that debate stage and Trump would've been cooked. What is bidens personal selling point? His platform is the standard democrat party line, he's an old white man from a solid blue state so he's not bringing any constituencies from his identity, he's even lost his wise elder statesman angle after that last debate. If you put any other democrat in they could not be trump just as well if not better then Biden.
Ah, so you can name a better candidate at this time who can swoop in and beat Trump?
Literally anyone (except Clinton, and I guess Harris since she's tainted by Biden).
You're acting like Trump is popular, he's not, Biden is simply as unpopular as a convicted felon. All that's needed to beat Trump would be someone who doesn't stink of dead children. That's literally it. Pick someone who's not associated with Biden and people will rally behimd them. Biden is the very worst we have to offer in this context he's created.
You could put a plank of wood up there and I'd vote for it at this point, as long as it's not old geriatric Genocide Joe Feinstein.
So…. Let’s get this straight:
He’s being selfish for trying to stop a tyrant from turning America into a dictatorship run by a rapist/convicted felon…
But people who are not voting, are…. Hero patriots protecting democracy? Do I have that right?
He's being selfish for trying to stop a tyrant from turning America into a dictatorship run by a rapist/convicted felon…
He's being selfish because he's giving that fascist rapist the best chance he's got at winning the white house, all because his ego won't allow him to admit he's failed and people don't want him in the whitehouse.
He was elected because he let the implication that he'd be a one-term care taker president. He knew from the beginning that he didn't have what it would take to carry a second election, but he's just too addicted to trying to salvage his legacy.
What he'll be remebered for funding a genocide, clinging arrigantly to power and handing our democracy over to the far right.
NYT is reporting on a hastily arranged call of the DNC finance committee today with some big donors. I don't see a non-paywalled source about it, but I assume it is happening.
That is a hugely important meeting because if Biden's donors say they will not support the campaign financially anymore, that will be one of the dominoes that would need to fall to get Biden to back out. Campaigns are expensive, and Trump's fundraising is focused on his campaign as third priority, after paying his legal bills and Trump himself.
I'm not really sure whether Biden can pull this off or not, but his chances are zero if his big donors stop giving.
Campaigns are expensive,
Moderate Dem campaigns are expensive in that they need big money donors to convince voters to hold their noses.
Progressive Dem campaigns are essentially free because the voters themselves are donating the bulk of the money.
The same efforts spent to get voters, naturally gets donors.
I don't think people realize how much time and effort Biden and the DNC put into getting these big fundraisers with George Clooney when it's a completely unnecessary step.
It shouldn't take 2 billion dollars to get more votes than trump, but that's what its been projected to cost to get Biden back in the White House. And that was before America saw him at the debate...
If the DNC is doing things behind the scenes, it's probably to re-route the big incoming dark money push to make sure it'll still land on a party favorite.
Last election it was 64 million in a single donation that no one knows where it came from...
Yet in the summer of 2020, when a blandly named entity called the Impetus Fund received a $64 million donation from a single anonymous source, it touched off a guessing game with broad political implications.
That single anonymous donation, routed through a series of accounts, eventually would be used to help Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Critics say it has come to illustrate an increasingly opaque system of funding elections that in 2024 could reach a scale that dwarfs all previous election cycles.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-64-million-mystery-anonymous-donations-2024-presidential-campaign/
We can't just blindly keep supporting anyone that's not a Republican. We've been doing it for a long time and it's not fucking working.
That's is NOT the year to fuck around. If Trump wins, the chance that he will declare himself president for life is WAY too high and apparently perfectly legal now.
Progressive Dem campaigns are essentially free because the voters themselves are donating the bulk of the money.
Ya, people forget that Bernie was always the top money raiser during the primary and Warren was usually #2, both on small donations. And that was during the primary when individual donations from Democrats were spread across many options.
In February 2020, Bernie + Warren raised $67M in individual donations. The entire rest of the crowd totaled $56M. Democrat individual donations can put out $123M in single month. For a primary, in a single month.
When it was Biden alone going into the 2020 general, he was pulling in $160M in small donations. That's more than Trump raised during most of his 2016 campaign. We don't need to be beholden to these large donors.
You can do it Joe!
Biden's campaign and his family are the only ones defending him, and now his family is turning on the campaign...
Among the most vocal: Jill Biden and son Hunter, whom the president has long gone to for counsel and advice. Both believe the president shouldn’t bow out when he’s down, and believe that he can come back from what they see as one subpar performance. The family questioned how he was prepared for the debate by staff and wondered if they could have done something better, the people said.
Like, why the fuck is Hunter Biden involved in these decisions?
This is the one time voters actually want the party to put their fingers on the scales, and they just fucking won't.
They'd rather risk trump then turn on Biden, because he appointed the current DNC leadership.
And if a Dem doesn't win the general, they get to vote to maintain the current leadership.
Who are obviously incredibly incompetent. If Biden wins, he's keeping them all for their loyalty.
The party top concern isn't stopping trump, it's maintaining their personal power over one of the only two political parties in America, that's supposed to raise 2 billion just for Biden's campaign this cycle.
They're in it for the money, not to save America.
We can't keep putting our future in their hands.
No, there's a lot of us that don't want to surrender the incumbent advantage for the very common backlash-against-the-last-party phenomenon we've seen many times in the past decades.
We're just not as loud as everyone else, and our position makes terrible clickbait.