Top Democrats plan crisis meeting despite Biden’s vow to fight on
Top Democrats plan crisis meeting despite Biden’s vow to fight on
House Democratic leader schedules virtual conference for Sunday as several members call for president’s withdrawal
Congressional Democrats are to hold an emergency weekend meeting to discuss Joe Biden’s tottering presidential candidacy, after a primetime television interview failed to dispel doubts triggered by last week’s debate fiasco.
Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrats’ leader in the House of Representatives, scheduled the virtual meeting for Sunday with ranking committee members, according to multiple reports, even as Biden struck a defiant posture in Friday’s interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
Ozma, I've got an actual question for you. For months you've been posting that you think biden will be replaced as the nominee at the convention. Before now you thought it was gonna be Newsom. My question is, if Newsom did replace biden, would that change your vote in november from third party to democrat? I'm not trying to be shitty here, I'm just genuinely curious.
Well, I'm in California so it's going solid blue. My vote was always going to a third party candidate. I'm registered No Party Preference. I left the corporate Democratic party after 2016.
Do I want Trump to win? Hell no! I've been calling for Biden to be replaced because I genuinely don't believe he can beat Trump. Newsom or Whitmer are the two I could see possibly beating Trump. I still think it would be a really close race with either of them but better odds than Biden.
Sidenote, I still vote mostly down ticket Dems for local and state positions if there's no other parties running for those positions.
Registered no party preference?
Ok I think I finally need this explained to me as a non American.
I always assumed when I saw registered rep/dem was equivalent to being a party member (of the lowest level). Here in the UK I can be a member of whomever I like and get a vote on party leader (this is why I assumed this) bur I don't need to regerster shit with anyone on my preferences
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Congressional Democrats are to hold an emergency weekend meeting to discuss Joe Biden’s tottering presidential candidacy, after a primetime television interview failed to dispel doubts triggered by last week’s debate fiasco.
Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrats’ leader in the House of Representatives, scheduled the virtual meeting for Sunday with ranking committee members, according to multiple reports, even as Biden struck a defiant posture in Friday’s interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
In a 22-minute interview from a school library in Wisconsin, aired in full, the president brushed off his miserable debate display as “a bad night” and insisted he would only withdraw his candidacy if the “Lord Almighty” ordered it.
But his posture appeared only to reinforce the views of those Democrats who had already publicly urged him to quit the race, while others were said to be privately infuriated by his seemingly insouciant attitude to the prospect of defeat at the hands of Donald Trump in November’s election.
The response seemed to minimise the consequences of handing over power to a rival who tried to overturn the results of the 2020, incited a mob to attack the US Capitol and vowed to seek “retribution” on his opponents if he won again, a threat that has unnerved many Democrats.
Democrats who had already called publicly for an end to his candidacy reiterated the sentiment after Friday evening’s broadcast of the interview, in which Biden projected greater assuredness than in the 27 June debate with Trump, yet affected obliviousness to concerns over his mental acuity or loss of support in the polls.
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