Behind the Curtain: Committee to Unelect the President
Axios - Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen July 12, 2024 President Biden beat back the initial public campaign by Democrats to oust him from the party's presidential ticket, swiftly and decisively. But very-connected Democrats, mostly veterans of the Obama and Clinton administrations, are plotting hourly to get him to withdraw quickly. They're commissioning polls, lobbying former presidents, back-channeling Democratic leaders, organizing donors and taking the fight to Biden in a very public way. They're the unofficial Committee to Unelect the President. The mission: Push Biden out of the presidential race — the sooner, the better. Why it matters: This loose anti-Biden network is growing by the day — and is circulating polls showing Democrats would shoot from sure losers to big winners with a new ticket. Some donors are talking of a massive financial commitment to any non-Biden presidential ticket. These Democrats see the race in stark, black-and-white terms: Just three states matter — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. That's the Blue Wall, all of which Biden won in 2020. And they see an obvious solution: Forget the niceties of backing Biden or even Vice President Harris. Be ruthless about finding the two people most likely to win those three states. How it works: The anti-Biden Democrats are trading texts, emails and polling, fighting fellow Democrats on TV and X, and circulating stories and arguments by sympathetic journalists and columnists, including Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias. Many are in conversation with lawmakers to push their leaders to squeeze Biden and his inner circle. They know Biden and his family seem unmovable — so they hope for the use of overwhelming force by the Obamas + Clintons + Schumer + Jeffries + Pelosi. More: https://www.axios.com/2024/07/12/biden-news-old-democrats-president |
"There is no incumbent president with lower approval ratings that won," "Only three with lower ratings than he has right now and they all lost. Donald Trump, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter. So some of the political information is what worries some folks in his inner circle. And there is right now no poll showing him winning."
Watch 5:20 in... |
Uh ohhhh... CBS News is saying forty Democrats will come out publicly against Biden tomorrow. |
Good to see more Dems trying to get on the right side of history. |
Biden losing every Battleground state.
VA, NH, NJ are in play as well.. https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states |
Moderate dems will never move off Biden. They would rather keep the status quo- ie do nothing. |
1980 - Jimmy Carter |
Did they? |
Without battleground states, based on current polls, Trump gets 312-330 electoral votes.
What’s the plan Biden??? |
I mean if every state had to be awarded Dem or Republican… |
MSN just reported Trump leading in VA by 3. He should be losing there by 10 points, not leading.. |