Biden’s TV interview fails to quell re-election concerns

[Slant Eyed Polack]

Link: Biden’s TV interview fails to quell re-election concerns among lawmakers, donors and strategists

• President Joe Biden did not assuage Democratic anxieties about his 2024 reelection bid against former President Donald Trump during his highly-anticipated ABC News interview.
• Two more Democratic lawmakers, Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Il., and Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., called on Biden to bow out of the presidential race.
• Quigley and Craig join a growing choir of lawmakers, strategists and donors losing faith in Biden’s ability to beat Trump in the November election.

Biden staying put is Trump's best shot.

A CBS News/YouGov poll released on Sunday indicated that 72% of registered voters believe the president does not have the mental and cognitive health to serve as president - a sharp increase from the 65% who said the same in an earlier poll.

To a lesser extent, Trump is tainted by the same stigma. Any Dem not pushing 80 has an automatic leg up that Brandon can never achieve. Sadly for the Dems, it seems that Kamala is their only real alternative - and she's the only national Dem who polls worse than Brandon.

 

[Melensdad]

Lots of high profile donors to the Democratic party are demanding he step aside.

Logistically, and for a lot of legal reasons, replacing Biden is problematic.

Kamala is the only candidate, other than Biden, who can easily access the $270 Million campaign war chest that their campaign has accumulated.

 

[Melensdad]

She is not the first to defect, and I'm reading multiple reports that many more will join her and demand he step aside.

She is now the 5th to tell him stand down, but the first one since the George Stephanopolis interview on ABC

Rep. Angie Craig Demands Joe Biden Drop Out, Becoming First Lawmaker to Defect After Biden's Friday ABC Interview

Joe Biden, on Saturday, lost the support of yet another member of Congress, the first to do so in the aftermath of his ABC News interview.

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Rep. Angie Craig Demands Joe Biden Drop Out — First Lawmaker to Defect After ABC Interview​

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President Joe Biden, on Saturday, lost the support of yet another Democrat member of Congress, the first to do so in the aftermath of Biden’s too-little-too-late Friday ABC News interview, which failed to assuage his critics.​

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Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) officially asked Biden to step aside early Saturday morning, saying, “As an elected leader, I feel a responsibility to be honest about what I believe, even when it’s hard to hear.”​

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Craig is the fifth member of Congress to demand Biden step aside since his disastrous June 27 debate.​

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The battleground district lawmaker hails from Minnesota, a state unexpectedly in play for former President Donald Trump, as Biden has stumbled, and Trump has gained steam. Despite Biden winning the state by more than seven percentage points in 2020, polling now shows Trump defeating Biden by as many as four points.​

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A June poll from the respected firm McLaughlin & Associates shows Trump leading with 41 percent support, followed by 37 percent for Biden, seven percent for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., two percent for independent candidate Cornel West, two percent for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, and 0.6 percent for Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver. Another 11 percent remain undecided. . . . ​

 

[Slant Eyed Polack]

...Kamala is the only candidate, other than Biden, who can easily access the $270 Million campaign war chest that their campaign has accumulated.

Exactly right. It's not that the Dems would prefer to run someone - anyone - other than Kamala. They just can't afford to.

 

[Melensdad]

Exactly right. It's not that the Dems would prefer to run someone - anyone - other than Kamala. They just can't afford to.

That is a big thing. Who can raise huge amounts of $$$$$$$ very quickly? Maybe Gavin Newsom? Maybe Gretchen Whitmer? Probably nobody else. So Kamala Harris has a money advantage right off the bat, but she is so unlikeable that even the Democrats want anyone but her.