Biden felt betrayed by the main Democratic leaders: not if, but when he will announce his resignation
President Joe Biden is angry at how the party is trying to force him out, two sources told NBC News, as Democrats in Congress increasingly believe it’s a question of when, not if, the president will end his campaign for a second term. mandate.
Biden felt betrayed by the main Democratic leaders: not if, but when he will announce his resignation
President Joe Biden feels personally hurt and betrayed by the way so many Democrats, including some of the party’s top leaders, have abandoned him as he faces the biggest crisis of his political career, according to two familiar sources from the Democrats.
Privately, many of these leaders have expressed doubts about the way forward.
Former President Barack Obama’s only public comment came the day after Biden’s disastrous debate last month, when he tweeted, “We happen to have bad debates” and extolled the virtues of his former vice president. Privately, however, Obama is worried.
Bill and Hillary Clinton did nothing publicly other than a tweet shortly after the June 27 debate.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, both of New York, as well as Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the former speaker of the House, have spent weeks listening to their members’ concerns and relaying to Biden and his campaign. Publicly, all three have said they support whatever decision Biden makes, but even behind closed doors, they haven’t told Democrats in Congress to back Biden or given them any guidance on what to do. what should he do.
Their answers were remarkable and reverberated throughout the party. Congressional leaders have typically shown unwavering loyalty to Biden in difficult times.
Biden has a decades-long history with Pelosi and Schumer, working closely with them during his tenure in Congress and two administrations to pass monumental legislation.
The sources said Biden is angry at the way the party has tried to remove him. A source close to Biden criticized senior Democratic leaders for “(giving us) Donald Trump.”
“Can we all remember for a minute that the same people who are trying to oust Joe Biden are the same people who literally gave us Donald Trump? In 2015, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer dumped Biden in favor of Hillary; they were wrong then and they are wrong now,” the source told NBC News.
The source pointed to polls from the 2016 election that showed Hillary Clinton leading by as many as 9 points.
“How did this all work out for everyone in 2016? Perhaps we should learn some lessons from 2016; one of them is that the polls are BS – just ask Secretary Clinton. And two, maybe, just maybe, Joe Biden is closer to the real Americans than Obama-Pelosi-Schumer?”, the source added in unusually sharp language that represents the views of those closest to Biden.
The silence of Democratic leaders has left Biden weak and alone, creating a vacuum that Democrats have filled with a steady stream of doubts and questions.
Asked for comment, the campaign referred NBC News to statements Thursday by deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks, who vowed that Biden remains in the race.
“He doesn’t waver on anything,” Fulks said in Milwaukee. “Our campaign is moving forward creating a vision and a contrast between Project 2025 and what we’ve seen over the last three days here in Milwaukee – the extreme agenda of the Republicans – and that’s what we’re focusing on. There are no plans to replace President Biden on the ballot, and President Biden is aware that this is a race with a margin of error.”
Schumer, when asked, publicly stated, “I’m with Joe.” Jeffries said in a recent letter that he shared with Biden the “full breadth” of House Democrats’ views. And Pelosi said it was Biden’s decision. All three stated that they would support Biden if he ran, without telling their colleagues to tone down their skepticism.
For his party, it created a sense of purgatory. Biden insisted, repeatedly and emphatically, that he is not leaving the race. But many Democrats refuse to accept denial, and the steady number of calls for Biden to step down — and lukewarm comments from party leaders — are fueling a belief in the party that the issue is far from over.
On Thursday night, Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, one of the party’s most vulnerable members of the party seeking re-election, became the second senator and the 22nd Democrat in Congress to call on Biden to withdraw from the race.
Although scattered across the country during the congressional recess, Democrats are rallying around the idea that it’s not a matter of if Joe Biden drops out, but when, according to multiple sources.
A Democratic strategist said many members of the party are increasingly impatient for the infighting to end.
Source: www.mediafax.ro
