After another disastrous interview, and following the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate demand he step aside, it appears that Joe Biden’s time as laughingstock-in-chief will come to an end.
The president, according to reports, will announce that he will not seek the Democratic nomination despite winning the primary. He had previously said he would leave the race if a doctor said he needed to and yesterday announced he had tested positive for COVID-19 again.
Axios dropped the bombshell news that the president appears to be ready to step aside.
The 81-year-old president, now self-isolating with COVID, remains publicly dug in. But privately he’s resigned to mounting pressure, bad polls, and untenable scrutiny making it impossible to continue his campaign, the Democrats tell us.
The private message, distilled to its bluntest form: The top leaders of his party, his friends and key donors believe he can’t win, can’t change public perceptions of his age and acuity, and can’t deliver congressional majorities.
The president is being told that if he stays in, former President Trump could win in a landslide and wipe away Biden’s legacy and Democrats’ hopes in November.
“His choice is to be one of history’s heroes, or to be sure of the fact that there’ll never be a Biden presidential library,” one of the president’s close friends told us. “I pray that he does the right thing. He’s headed that way.”
Four names have risen to the top if Democrats decide to pick someone other than Kamala Harris as their nominee.
Trump also said he anticipates that Biden will drop out of the race, as well. When asked about planning the vice presidential debate, the former president said they would have to wait to see whom Kamala Harris picks.
NEW: Trump campaign responds re: Vice Presidential debates.
“We don’t know who the Democrat nominee for Vice President is going to be, so we can’t lock in a date before their convention. To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 17, 2024
The 2024 Democratic National Convention is scheduled to take place from August 19 to August 22, 2024. The convention will be held in Chicago, Illinois.
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