Many Americans don’t actually believe Joe Biden will follow through with running for re-election.
Biden’s abysmal poll numbers, policy failures and cognitive decline render him the weakest president seeking a second term in generations.
And now Joe Biden made one announcement about dropping out that stunned Democrats into silence.
At closed-door fundraisers Joe Biden has a habit of telling truths to the people who cut big campaign checks that he won’t communicate to the American people.
Last year Biden admitted his reckless war with Russia led to the greatest chance of “nuclear Armageddon” since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Now Biden told a closed-door gathering of his biggest campaign contributors that he’s only running for re-election because he thinks he’s the only Democrat that can defeat Donald Trump.
“If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running. But we cannot let him win,” Biden reportedly said.
Biden’s comment was shocking on many levels.
Not the least of which was it represented a damning vote of no confidence in Kamala Harris to pick up the torch and succeed him.
Biden’s admission that he’s only running for re-election because of Trump suggests that even he is self-aware enough to realize that he’s deeply unpopular and that he probably can’t handle the job of president physically or mentally anymore, but that he’s only running again out of partisan hackery.
Even Biden’s loyalists and sycophants on CNN were stunned.
“Is this the kind of admission a candidate should be making?” left-wing activist and host Jake Tapper asked his guest, CNN political director David Chalian.
Chalian admitted that Biden’s position in the polls is so poor that Biden’s only opportunity to piece his 2020 coalition back together is to press the panic button about the possibility of Trump winning again.
“But I think if Joe Biden’s critical mission this time is starting to piece back his coalition of voters, some of which he has seen a diminishing support — reminding those voters of the contrast with Donald Trump, and that Donald Trump is the target here, could help rally the troops, if you will,” Chalian stated.
Biden then tried to clean up his comments the following day, but in typical fashion Biden did so in the clumsiest way possible claiming he could beat Trump but so could 50 other Democrats.
President Biden, who’s staked much of his 2020 and 2024 presidential campaigns on the notion that he is uniquely positioned to defeat Donald Trump, says there are “probably 50” other Democrats who could beat Trump. “I’m not the only one who can defeat him, but I will defeat him.”
— Matt Viser (@mviser) December 6, 2023
Biden’s contention that there are “50 other Democrats” who could beat Trump is not exactly a mark in his favor as polls show Democrats are desperate for another option to take on Trump.
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