If Joe Biden agrees to step down, Democrats will replace him. It’s hard to understand why they weren’t prepared for this. They seem legitimately shocked, or at least shocked Biden couldn’t cover up his mental frailty.
John Heilemann heard from Democrats during the debate and has never heard this degree of alarm even after having heard many bad first debates.
“I Have Never Seen Anything Like This”
“In terms of measuring the degree of alarm of a presidential candidate’s party about their performance, I have never seen anything like this by an order of magnitude.
“Just as a reporting matter, sitting congressman, sitting senators, sitting governors, millionaires, billionaires, across the spectrum, people who have been supportive and loyal to Joe Biden from day one, and continue in some respects to be supportive and loyal to Biden, were freaking out last night.
“I can’t as a reportorial matter, I can’t overstate the degree of freak out about what they were seeing.
“I don’t know what is going to happen now, but I will tell you that by the time you got to the first commercial break, at the highest levels of the Democratic Party, senators, governors, Congress people, biggest bundlers, biggest donors, there were conversations about what do we do now.
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“A story the other day in the totally non-credible in many respects Daily Mail, I think a couple of weeks ago, on Monday, that said that that the Clintons, the Obamas, Schumer, and Pelosi we’re going to watch this debate and if [it’s] not going well for Joe Biden, they’re going to go and try to have the talk with him about stepping back.
I laughed at that, Heilemann said, “It was not a credible report.” However, he then heard “from about six good sources after that who said that’s not totally false, and the interesting part of that was …because no one thinks Joe Biden would listen to the Obamas, the Clintons on the subject, but because he cares so much about Democrats in the House and Senate, there was some discussion about whether Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer privately are at least taking soundings on this question.
“I don’t know what will happen now going forward, but I will say these are the kinds of conversations that people are having now.
“Because the level of panic is for me in my time covering politics, I’ve never seen a level of panic about this on this scale.”
MSNBC’s @jheil: “I can’t overstate the degree of freakout about what they were seeing. I don’t know what will happen now, but I will tell you, by the time you got to the first commercial break, you had the highest levels of the Democratic Party, senators, governors, Congress… pic.twitter.com/UnJfqhi0sd
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 28, 2024
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Its REALLY amazing how the Left had no idea how brain damaged Joe Biden is. The same information source that made them think Biden was doing great is the same information source that is brainwashing them that DJT is bad.
John Heilemann, who I never heard of, is a liar, hyping the event, since that is all NBC news is.
They all knew Biden was quite senile in 2020. To talk about sudden shock now is just posturing for the cameras. The dems decided to turn against Biden in unison as a strategy. They manufactured this sudden change, to obscure the coverup they have been doing for 4 years. Biden has been staggering, slurring and freezing the entire time.
What does the following part say about the elite supporters of Biden? Rush explained they live in a bubble; basically inferring they don’t really know what’s going on! You could say they are a bunch of rich “useful idiots”. (smile) It also says how good the CIA media is at lying to the public. I’m more inclined now this was a setup by Democrats to get rid of Biden.
“I Have Never Seen Anything Like This”
“In terms of measuring the degree of alarm of a presidential candidate’s party about their performance, I have never seen anything like this by an order of magnitude.
“Just as a reporting matter, sitting congressman, sitting senators, sitting governors, millionaires, billionaires, across the spectrum, people who have been supportive and loyal to Joe Biden from day one, and continue in some respects to be supportive and loyal to Biden, were freaking out last night.”
GFY!
They are stuck with him now. They would have to drag Jill out of the White House kicking and screaming. They can get demented Joe out of there by telling him they are taking him out for ice cream. Its funny how democrats talk about Democracy, yet they are willing to stick someone else in there that nobody voted for in the primaries. Joe better hire a food taster because the only way for them to replace him is to off him and make him go out looking like some kind of hero who gave his life for the country. It would be laughable but what else do they have?
They’ll make Jill an “offer she can’t refuse”.