2024-07-19 19:39:20
The feeling that replacing Joe Biden as the Democratic Party candidate is inevitable is widespread. After a few weeks of denial, the president has begun to open himself to reconsider his decision to move forward. Although he hopes to resume his work program and campaign again next week, Biden is confined to recovering from Covid at his beach house in Rehoboth Beach (Delaware), where he is thinking about his future. While the pressure is increasing, the conviction is growing among Democrats that withdrawal is a matter of time. A decrease in donations, new defects in Congress and the deterioration of the electoral prospects of Democrats are taking their toll.
The president took advantage of a statement about Donald Trump’s speech that accepted the Republican decision to confirm: “I hope to return to the election campaign next week to continue to oppose the threat of Donald Trump’s Project 2025, at the same time I stand up. for my own journey and the vision I have for America: one in which we save our democracy, protect our rights and freedoms, and create opportunities for all.”
The head of the campaign, Jen O’Malley Dillon, confirmed this Friday on an MSNBC morning show that President Biden is “growing” in the electoral race, calling him “the best person to face Donald Trump.” The Republican candidate closed the Republican convention on Wednesday with a speech in which his journey to moderation lasted about 15 minutes, leaving room for Democrats looking to bring moderation and the liberal vote.
The question is whether Biden is the best candidate for this when two-thirds of Democratic voters are in favor of a replacement. O’Malley Dillon admits weariness and inactivity, but not beyond that. “Of course we have seen some withdrawal in support, but it has been a small movement,” he said, fulfilling his obligation to defend the candidate as long as he is one.
The American media these days makes extensive use of “may” and other interjections and evaluations to explain the situation, to the point of inciting some parodies. According to The New York Times, People close to the president said it “seems” like Biden agreed that he “may” have to leave the race. The Washington Post He confirmed that Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, had sent to Democratic congressmen that the candidate “may” soon be convinced of the need to leave. The digital Axios He had already said on Thursday that Biden may decide to throw in the towel this weekend.
Along with the hypotheses, there are facts. Jon Tester became the second Democratic senator on Wednesday to call for Biden to leave the party and Martin Heinrich, this Friday, the third, the morning after the end of the Republican National Convention. “While I appreciate his commitment to public service and to our country, I believe that President Biden should not be running for re-election,” Tester said in a statement. The senator from Montana is running for re-election in November, but his re-election is very complicated. He won his seat in 2018, in the mid-term legislative elections of Donald Trump, in which the Republicans had a terrible result. But it is a Republican state: in the 2020 elections, Trump beat Biden there by more than 15 points. Heinrich, from New Mexico, said in his statement: “Although the decision to withdraw from the campaign is only President Biden’s , I believe it is best for our country for him to step aside.” Although New Mexico was Democratic, Heinrich had a few votes against his Republican opponent.
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Six additional members of the House of Representatives have also joined the parliamentary committees this Friday. There are already more than 30 Democratic representatives who have demanded his immediate removal. “The time has come for you to pass the torch to a new generation of Democratic leaders,” four of them told the president in a joint letter: Jared Huffman, of California; Marc Veasey, from Texas; Mark Pocan, from Wisconsin, and Jesús García, from Illinois.
These flaws show that Biden’s efforts to give conferences, give interviews, appear at press conferences and give evidence of his power still do not erase the flaw of the disastrous debate against Trump on May 27 in Atlanta.
Biden, who has been a senator for decades, noted the pressures coming from Congress. The president has had conversations with the Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, and the Senate, Chuck Schumer. After these meetings, it is open to re-establish the situation in view of the prospect of a possible electoral defeat that will drag down the party and give the Republicans not only the White House but also the control of the Congress government.
This Friday, in a radio interview, Jeffries respected his candidate: “President Biden was right when he said that he went through the primary process and some 14 million voters gave him the Democratic nomination. “It’s your decision.”
Another fact is that money from big donors is flowing less strongly to the Biden campaign. There are no official figures yet, but famous donors publicly announced that they are cutting their donations. The campaign has full boxes and is not a printing problem, but it increases the difficulty for Biden to be successfully re-elected.
A calendar for possible withdrawals is available. This Friday the legislative committees of the Democratic convention, which will be held in Chicago from August 19 to 22, meet. In principle, the Democrats intend to elect a candidate in advance electronically. The Democrats have left this process for August, and they plan to do it before the 7th of that month.
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