Joe Biden immediately faced calls from Democrats to drop out of the Presidential race following his catastrophic debate with Donald Trump last night, but the 81 year-old insisted he would go on. The Mail has more.
Biden’s campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt declared early this morning: “Of course he’s not dropping out.”
But a torrent of his own party members and strategists are clamouring for their aged President to throw in the towel off the back of the car-crash debate, with one anonymous Democrat telling NBC it was “time to talk about an open convention and a new Democratic nominee”.
“Biden is about to face a crescendo of calls to step aside,” one Biden-backing strategist told the New York Times, while another Democrat put it even more flatly to the Washington Post.
“We’re so f***ed,” he said. “He has great material. He just cannot deliver a single line.”
David Plouffe – a Democratic strategist who worked on Barack Obama‘s 2008 campaign – told MSNBC Biden’s showing was “kind of a DEFCON1 moment” – a reference to the highest alert level used by America’s defence community.
Plouffe also remarked that Trump and Biden looked “30 years apart”, despite an age gap of just three years between them.
One political analyst summed it up in the hours following the torturous 90-minute ordeal: “There’s going to be a lot of bedwetting (among Democrats) tonight.”
Trump meanwhile was seen contorting his face in shock and derision at Biden’s confused meandering and frequent gaffes in the debate, at one point telling millions of Americans watching at home: “I really don’t know what he [Biden] just said. He’s not equipped to be President. You know it and I know it.”
Worth reading in full.
The Telegraph‘s Tim Stanley quips that “this wasn’t a debate, it was a medical emergency… Never mind, will he last four years? The audience wasn’t sure he’d last 90 minutes.”
“Now I’m certain: Donald Trump will win in November,” he adds.
On Substack, Eugyppius writes that “Biden has declined substantially over the past four years; at least in 2020, he could debate Trump with minimal coherence”.
Last night, after a full week of preparation, practice and apparently even advance access to the questions, he frequently forgot what he was talking about, offered blank baffled expressions to the camera while Trump spoke and had substantial difficulty leaving the stage when the event was over. Afterwards, as he greeted supporters, his wife Jill Biden praised him like a child: “Joe, you did such a great job! You answered every question! You knew all the facts!” Nobody can any longer deny that the United States is in the hands of a senile figurehead suffering from serious dementia. Biden remains in office for reasons of convenience and political patronage; who is actually steering the executive branch is anybody’s guess.
In the Telegraph it’s being reported that major Democrat party donors have now turned on Biden.
Donors have urged Mr. Biden to step aside, suggesting California’s Gavin Newsom and Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer as potential replacements amid rising panic about the future of the campaign. …
The high-profile Democrat donor, Mark Buell, raised the possibility of replacing Mr. Biden following the debate, saying: “Do we have time to put somebody else in there?”
Strategists working for at least three separate Democrats said they have received texts from party donors asking them if their candidate would step forward to replace Biden as the presidential nominee.
“Biden needs to drop out. No question about it,” one said, proposing a ticket led by Ms. Whitmer and Wes Moore, the Governor of Maryland.
“This is terrible. Worse than I thought was possible. Everyone I’m speaking with thinks Biden should drop out,” one Democrat donor told NBC News.
One adviser told Politico that they had “taken no less than half a dozen key donors texting ‘disaster’ and [the] party needs to do something”.
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Off topic, but the Reform ‘candidate’ is a part time actor, set up for the job. No surprise there then. The left are desperate.
Leftfieldmike then?
What happened? Was this person a plant then 🤔
Totally blatant. I don’t think ppl care what BBC news says any more though.
Isn’t this ‘Biden’ a paid actor? Looks nothing like Joe Biden from just a few years ago.
The Democrat Party bench to pick from is weak.
What, with the intellectual powerhouse that is Kamela Harris in the wings? You are surely mistaken.
All as planned. Why else would the DNC agree to a head to head debate this early in the cycle? It is unprecedented.
Gavin ( Destroy California) Newsome , standby …..!
I think it’s pronounced Newscum.
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Is Big Mike in the running?
Mike and Barry, 2 for 1 full meal deal.
With the US in such a mess thanks to four years of Biden & Co, it is quite possible the Democrats want Trump to win so he gets all the blame for the tough decisions needed to clear it up.
The cover up is worse than the “crime” of Biden’s mental state. The politicians, bureaucrats, his own family and senior democrat party leaders have colluded and conspired to cover up his age related mental problems – aided and abetted by the left wing mass media. I have disgust and contempt for all of them.
They have lied and deceived the public. It could not be more obvious that democracy is a veneer and that there are groups of people in the shadows pulling the strings and really running the show. Despite his many flaws, the American people should pray that Trump prevails.
What greater way of showing contempt for the American people than allowing sleepy Joe
not just to remain as President but to run for a second term.
spot on.
Thanks 👍
Well I think Biden should stay in the race. It is the best thing he could do for America.
Our Refusers song Dementia:
”Behind the aviator shades there are no brain waves. He reads from a teleprompter so his thoughts don’t wander. The leader of the free world is a goner. Dementia, you know the thing. Dementia, how did he get to be king?”
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The problem is not getting Biden to step down, but how do they ditch Kamala, potentially the first female President and of mixed race, in order to shoe in a more popular candidate.
He is a stark reminder never to have sympathy for a mentally deficient because you might imagine their suffering. This man has been a serial liar and abuser, even of members of his own family. Not to mention abusing is position over several decades in order to enrich himself with complete disregard for human life. Dementia isn’t some moral bath which cleanses him of all wrongdoing. He will endure a hellish state of mind at the end and he will deserve it.
My view is that TPTB will not allow Trump to be President, and they have plans A through E(?) to achieve this end.
Plan A is a head-to-head election between Biden and Trump, with Biden winning (possibly with some vote-rigging, as in 2020). The “convicted felon” narrative is part of this plan, since some people will vote Biden because of that (though others may shift to Trump because they don’t like lawfare).
Plan B is to prevent Trump standing by quasi-legitimate means, such as ongoing litigation etc – though this is unlikely to succeed under constitutional law with a supportive (to Trump) Supreme Court.
Plan C is to run with Plan A, but with a different candidate to Biden, such as Newsome or Michael O. This is probably being activated at this moment, with the debate yesterday being the first step in the process.
Plan A and C will be assessed closer to the election date. If the polls indicate a big margin for Trump, such that vote-rigging becomes too difficult, they may well be ditched.
Plan D is to declare a state of emergency and suspend the election indefinitely. This might be “justified” by a nuclear war, a civil war, a financial collapse, a deadly pandemic, or whatever, any of which can be initiated by TPTB.
Plan E is to assassinate Trump.
There isn’t going to be an Anglo-American empire in six months time. If you chart the ladder of escalation and the disparity it is quite clear what the result will be. The English-speaking world will still exist in a much reduced state but we should be cogniscant that this supremacy that we enjoy now is going to change very quickly.
You kill half a million people and you touch your pre-pubescnent daughter up in the shower but hey ho you just carry on. You ruin your son and scarper from Afghanistan and you just keep getting away with it. It is a peculiar power structure.
Explain Jabby?
Look at the accusasations from his daughter. And listen to the phonecalls that Hunter made to ‘the big man’. Just look at the mental health of both of them. I can see instantly that it is major PTSD.
Please leave him to contend, or you’ll get powerful Democrats like the primery school teachers eg Kamala Harris and sandy ocasio taking over and then the Democrats will win again!
Ffs , America, are you so lost you’d even consider another 5 years of this primary school nonsense? Well, would yer, punk?
Putin and Xi Jinping are licking their lips!
The first time, new order of power for the east!
Stop voting tactically and vote for what you want instead! First time for everything!!
There is no hope in the American electoral system. Trump doesn’t like phoning the relatives of veterans killed in action so perhaps that is something but he was ultimately responsible for one of these escalations with the sumary execution of Sulemani You have faith in your leader Keir Starmer. Come to me in six months time and tell me that your faith was justified. I would wager that not a single person would come forward. You are trapped and they are in control. At least admit that you are trapped.
We laugh at the imbeciles in charge. Not so funny for those killed by them. Thousands a day to satisfy their vanity. Every day that we let it continue we are culpable.
Sorry, I did not see a car crash. I saw an elderly man struggling at times with his words, but at other times sounding clear as a bell. Can someone explain this? Dementia? Or democrats who now want to suddenly decide their candidate is not fit for purpose and WANT a younger model for the next 8 yrs. Gavin Newsom 7:1 at Ladbroke’s yesterday. If he gets in, the end of America.
“clear as a bell”? ——-This is the leader of the worlds most powerful country. Are you seriously defending the fact that the USA has a semi demented geriatric who shuffles up to the podium without lifting his feet an inch above the floor?
I don’t want Biden in a bath chair overlooking a lake being spoon fed tomato soup just yet. I want him to stay so Trump wipes the floor with the phony planet saving migrant loving Dumbocrats.
Biden was always a front man for Obama giving him and his cronies a 3rd term. There were plenty of capable Democratic leaders that could have been chosen to run against Trump in the last election. Biden was chosen because he was easy to control. Biden actually came out and said that “He does what he is told”. The quid pro quo would be protection for Biden and his son against prosecution. After the revelations of covid are all your delusions of honest government working for you finally finally dispelled!
Another Democrat put it even more flatly to the Washington Post.
“We’re so f***ed,” he said. “He has great material. He just cannot deliver a single line.”
Great material????. “Start the car”. Like the consocialists in the UK, Resident Biden has single handedly destroyed the USA.