President Biden delayed stepping down in part because he doubted Kamala Harris was up to the challenge of an election battle with Donald Trump, sources have said. The Telegraph has more.
The 81 year-old President dramatically withdrew from the race on Sunday and endorsed his Vice President after weeks of calls for him to stand aside over growing concerns over his age and declining health.
However, the reason Mr. Biden and his senior advisers’ hesitated for so long was a lack of faith in Ms. Harris, 59, due to her occasionally rocky tenure, three Biden aides familiar with recent talks about his plans told Axios.
Trouble is, delaying it and then backing her only made it worse.
It comes as Harris fails to secure the backing of senior Democrats after she announced her bid for Presidential nominee.
There has been telling silence from both Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker who wields significant power. Neither Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, and Hakeem Jeffries, the minority House leader, have backed a Harris coronation.
However, Ms. Harris has won the support of Gretchen Whitmer, the Governor of Michigan, and Gary Newsom, California’s Governor, who had both been touted as possible contenders for the nomination.
The Clintons also endorsed the Vice President, saying on Sunday they “fight with everything we’ve got” to support her run for Oval Office. Mr. Biden’s campaign has already been renamed “Kamala HQ” on social media.
“My intention is to earn and win this nomination,” Ms. Harris said in a statement shortly after Mr. Biden’s dramatic exit from the race. “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party — and unite our nation — to defeat Donald Trump.”
It’s almost as if refusing to admit the transparently incapable Biden is unfit for office until the very last minute, and then switching to his unpopular Vice-President in a blind panic — and hoping you can rely on censorship and a compliant media to cover-up the problems — is a bad electoral strategy!
Because Harris is on the Biden ticket she is entitled to use his $100 million campaigning war chest. Thus the official social media account for Joe Biden’s former Presidential campaign on X has wasted no time in rebranding as @KamalaHQ.
Kamala is notorious for her word salads in public speaking, using lots of verbiage to communicate little, while giggling apparently uncontrollably. A lampooning from Left-leaning satire show the Daily Show sums up for many the reasons why she is not a serious candidate for President.
Stop Press: Lionel Shriver, writing in UnHerd, describes Harris as “Biden’s idiotic diversity hire” and points out that even a large proportion of Democratic voters can’t stand her. Worth reading in full.
Stop Press 2: Pelosi has belatedly backed Harris.
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My default position nowadays for any political pronouncements is to assume “they’re lying.” I no longer believe a word any of them are saying. This article more than reinforces my opinion. Labour are lying as usual and seem to be working on the Goebbel’s maxim of telling a big lie, repeat it continuously and eventually the people will believe it.
This Nut Zero travesty will surely provide Labour with their best ever chance to finally succeed at that which they are best at – running the country in to the ground. Significantly this will be the last government they ever form.
Indeed
As I write this, 21.7% of our electricity needs are being supplied by other countries, half of that by France
When the sun goes down, the contribution from solar will obviously disappear. At this moment our capacity from wind is far from being 100% utilised – presumably because the wrong kind of wind is blowing or not enough of it. Installing more bird choppers does not help if the wind is not blowing.
They must know this so the whole plan is malevolent and not a cockup.
Yes, 100%. Anyone who doesn’t have trust issues with anybody in authority, not even just the perma-corrupt politicians, is gullible in the extreme, in my opinion. There’s always an agenda, there’s always an ulterior motive, there’s always something they’re withholding from us. Sounds like paranoia but there it is, it’s how I roll now.
A 4min montage demonstrating the failures of these hated, ugly, destructive wind turbines, including a brief glimpse of the tragic effects on the poor birds;
https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1795113082907226397
If a cat kills a sparrow then all cats should be destroyed, but if wind turbines virtually wipe out the Red Kite, like what has happened in Germany then we should build even more of them.
Thanks for the link Mogs
Putting Government in charge of energy is like having wolves tending sheep. But actually the most powerful force today regarding energy is not this government or the next one. It is the “Climate Change Commitee”. It is they who run the show. It is they who have decided what your standard of living is to be moving forward, and since energy is the most important commodity for our prosperity and well being and the CCC have decided our energy use is to be strictly rationed then there can only be one outcome. ——Lower Living Standard. The use of coal oil and gas is what has given us the standard of living we currently enjoy. It is the standard of living that the developing world hopes to have and is why China and India continue using coal to bring their populations out of abject misery and poverty. By removing fossil fuels we reverse our standard of living. The countries with the highest energy prices are the UK, Germany and Denmark. —Why? because they have the most wind turbines. Any government that wants to expand the use of wind will only cause prices to increase. The idea we will have cheaper energy bills by using more renewables comes from the mouths of LIARS.
The odious CCC was covered here:
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/disband-the-climate-change-committee
Thans for that. Read it and saved it.
Quite apart from Labours usual fantasy orgasm non-policies I read recently that the average number of days without sun and / or wind is 110. That is 3 months of the year in the UK where anything relying on wind or sun cannot function. To put it bluntly that is 3 months with no light and no heat. Even if you have a gas boiler, how do you light it and drive the pump without electricity?
I didn’t read beyond the second mention of 3023
Only 9 comments. ————I am very surprised. There is no more important issue than energy for prosperity, health, life span and everything else that relates to our well being.
You are right, but I already feel defeated. If those in power decide to shut off the gas mains and stop petrol & diesel reaching the pumps there is nothing I can do to get them back.
And that is exactly what they will do …. but over a period of time, so that they don’t completely crash the economy or cause riots. It’s the classic “boiling frog” process.
The best thing we can all do is slow down the process by refusing to co-operate. Don’t buy an EV; don’t get a heat pump. Resist having a Smart Meter as long as possible. If you can, get an alternative heat source to gas and electricity.
So you vote for those that will stop Net Zero and currently the only party saying they will do that is REFORM. —–Not so easy if they were government to say it though as the entire Liberal Progressive machine of the western world would be down on them like a ton of bricks. No make that 50 tons of bricks.
Socialist Labour modus operandi when it comes to State run disasters, is keep the end-user price low by taxing them to subsidise the lower price.
The people have been falling for that one since 1945. Don’t forget when you use the NHS it is free – you don’t pay anything. State education similarly is free.
In the days of State owned gas, electric, coal, rail none of these made a profit – or surplus if you prefer – out of revenues, but prices were kept down.
In the case of energy, after it was privatised in the 80’s prices were still low and competitive. It was only after the Climate Change Act in 2008 (Miliband) that prices started to rise because wind is an expensive way to produce electricity, and also because the turbines were being paid for out of our bills. It isn’t privatisation that has cause high prices, it is government interfering in the energy market with pretend to save the planet policies.