Biden Has Covid-19, New Polling is Calling The Name of Pamela Harris
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Introduction by Adam Gonzalez, Publisher
I voted for Biden and have been behind the idea he could beat Trump. This morning at 5am I saw the latest polling of Democrats: 65% want Biden to Step down
35% want him to continue
65% of Republicans are Backing Trump
Numbers don't lie and they don't have a heart, It is as simple as that.
To get some more bad news for Biden, he has tested positive for COVID-19 again! This will get him out of the campaign for a few weeks.
What to do if Biden persists? I think Biden has put his sword halfway down. But he needs to step in and guarantee that Vice President Pamela Harris takes his place. When the call first went out from Democrats that Biden could not Win Trump, Biden had all the right to put his guard up. But if I could get spiritual for a sec the Universe is talking. The problem is the Democrats can not lose this election. We said the same thing the first time around for Trump. We were right but this is not the Trump of 2016. Back then he says he did not even know what NATO was nor did he know anything else. He did something right and it was
He surrounded himself with decent generals to help out. But now he knows how to press all the buttons. He knows how to do damage to a single individual, state, or Country. The Supreme Court with the members appointed by him has a MAGA majority who have made the Presidency Imperial. So we have a convicted rapist running for President but if at least he had a Sexual Assault and rape Prosecutor,
Pamela Harris, I think we would have a serious chance. But it has to be the Vice President. The nation already voted her into the ticket, so the change can be made by Biden asking his delegates to back her at the convention. There might be a dark horse trying to take advantage of the situation but if the Democrats do what they say we Could have Pamela for President with a good candidate to run with her.
The Democratic party is bleeding and it needs to apply the tourniquet before is too late. We need to catch up to Trump's numbers. Now the media has been a pericope looking at Biden and ignoring what is going on with Trump and the Supreme Court. Trump also has court cases that are very serious for sharing classified documents. All of that will go away. What won't go away is his 40 indictments and conviction in New York just making him the first ex-president who is a felon. If he lived in New York he could not vote. being a felon.
We owe Joe Biden much. From internationally bringing our nation up with respect and letting the world know, particularly Russia, China, NKorea. This is not going to get better. Domestically he started with getting COVID-19 which by the way might be what brings him to close his successful candidacy down but not out.
Below I give you an article that came out this morning with The New York Times. My mind was already made up even before I read the below article. The numbers and COVID-19 did it for me along with the necessity to bring Trump down. I love this nation too much to let the things he promises will happen. They are all bad. Very grateful to you for reading my article,
The New York Times:
President Biden has become more receptive in the last several days to hearing arguments about why he should drop his re-election bid, Democrats briefed on his conversations said on Wednesday, after his party’s two top leaders in Congress privately told him they were deeply concerned about his prospects.
Mr. Biden has not given any indication that he is changing his mind about staying in the race, the Democrats said, but has been willing to listen to rundowns of new and worrying polling data and has asked questions about how Vice President Kamala Harris could win.
The accounts suggest that Mr. Biden, privately at least, is striking a more open-minded posture than he did last week when he lashed out at a number of House Democrats who pressed him to step aside.
One person close to the president said that it would be wrong to call him receptive to the idea of dropping out but that he “is willing to listen.” But this person emphasized there was no sign that Mr. Biden was changing course at this point.
The descriptions emerged after Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the two top Democrats in Congress, each told Mr. Biden privately over the past week that their members were deeply concerned about his chances in November and the fates of House and Senate candidates should he remain at the top of the ticket, according to two people briefed on the conversations.
The White House suggested that Mr. Biden was unmoved by their discussions.
“The president told both leaders he is the nominee of the party, he plans to win and looks forward to working with both of them to pass his 100 days agenda to help working families,” said Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman.
The separate exchanges between Mr. Biden and the congressional leaders, described on the condition of anonymity because they were confidential discussions on an exceedingly sensitive topic, came to light as Democrats’ rebellion against Mr. Biden intensified on Wednesday.
Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries, both of New York, privately prevailed upon party officials to delay the start of Mr. Biden’s nomination by a week, prolonging the debate over the viability of his candidacy.
Representative Adam B. Schiff of California became the highest-profile Democratic lawmaker to call on Mr. Biden to end his run. And Jeffrey Katzenberg, a co-chairman of the Biden campaign, told the president that donors had stopped giving to his campaign, according to a person with knowledge of the exchange. Mr. Katzenberg’s message was reported earlier by Semafor.
With his campaign mired in crisis, Mr. Biden tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday evening. That sidelined the president just as his campaign was hoping to step up his public appearances in a bid to show he is up to remaining in the race.
After a brief pause in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump, conversations among Democrats on Capitol Hill and elsewhere about replacing Mr. Biden at the top of the ticket have resumed with vigor. The details of Mr. Schumer’s private talk with Mr. Biden last week at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., reported earlier by ABC News, were the latest indication that top Democrats are seeking to make a compelling case to the president, who has so far refused to heed calls that he must step aside not only for his own good, but for that of his party as well.
In a statement, a spokesman for Mr. Schumer, the majority leader, did not deny ABC’s report but called it “idle speculation,” adding: “Leader Schumer conveyed the views of his caucus directly to President Biden on Saturday.”
Mr. Jeffries, the minority leader, told House Democrats last week that in a visit to the White House on Thursday night, he had “directly expressed the full breadth of insight, heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path forward” among them to Mr. Biden.
Both Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries made clear during their conversations with Mr. Biden that they wanted to convey their assessments to him privately but that they would not necessarily stay that way for long, according to a Democrat close to congressional leadership.
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Both leaders were frustrated that Mr. Biden did not appear to be listening to their dire warnings, the Democrat added. The subsequent sense among some Democrats that Mr. Biden had become more willing to listen was first reported on Wednesday by CNN.
Mr. Biden’s disastrous debate performance last month, his uneven public appearances and his struggles in the polls have fueled deep worries among Democrats. Nearly two-thirds of Democrats want him to quit the race, according to a survey released on Wednesday by The Associated Press and NORC, an independent research institution at the University of Chicago.
Even more concerning to Democrats is data they have received in recent days that reveals the extent of the political damage that could come to the party’s incumbents from remaining supportive of Mr. Biden, with one poll suggesting that voters are deeply distrustful of elected officials who vouch for the president’s mental capacity and endorse him.
One Biden adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal discussions, said that the decision came down to hard facts and that there were three that mattered: polling, cash and which states are in play. And, as this adviser put it, none of those are trending in the right direction for Mr. Biden.
It was against that backdrop that Mr. Schumer weighed in this week to appeal to party leaders to hold off on beginning a swift virtual roll call they had considered starting as soon as next week to cement Mr. Biden as the nominee, according to a person familiar with his thinking who insisted on anonymity to describe it. The Senate leader spoke with Mr. Jeffries, and both agreed to push the party to put off the start of that process, according to a second person familiar with their involvement, who also declined to be named discussing it.
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Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, the co-chairman of the party’s rules committee, which determines when and how the nomination will proceed, called Jen O’Malley Dillon, the Biden campaign chief, on Tuesday afternoon to inform her that the roll call should be delayed, according to a person made aware of the call who described it on the condition of anonymity.
Bowing to the pressure, top Democratic National Committee officials announced on Wednesday that the virtual roll call would take place during the first week of August instead.
Mr. Schiff, a candidate for Senate in the state and a top ally of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, called on Mr. Biden to drop out of the race.
“Our nation is at a crossroads,” he told The Los Angeles Times. “A second Trump presidency will undermine the very foundation of our democracy, and I have serious concerns about whether the president can defeat Donald Trump in November.”
Mr. Biden insisted again, in an interview with BET News that aired on Wednesday, that he had no intention of leaving the race and that he would consider doing so only if a doctor informed him he had a medical condition that made it necessary.
Mr. Schumer, according to the Democrat close to him, was also given data from a leading Democratic super PAC showing Mr. Biden’s deficit growing to 5 percentage points or more in the must-win states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and his deficit in three other key states — Nevada, Georgia and Arizona — outside the margin of sampling error.
So far, just 20 members of the House and one senator have publicly called on the president to withdraw from the race. But privately, many more have expressed deep concerns and said they believe he is on track to lose the White House and drag down their chances of controlling Congress.
Those concerns bubbled up during a tense exchange between Mr. Biden and members of the centrist New Democrat Coalition on a video call on Saturday, one of several the president conducted with various Democratic groups on Capitol Hill. The president grew noticeably agitated with House Democrats who questioned his fitness to run and chances of winning.
During the meeting, Representative Jason Crow, Democrat of Colorado, told the president that voters in his district were concerned about national security should Mr. Biden serve again, and “want a commander in chief who can project strength, vigor and inspire confidence at home and abroad,” according to a partial transcript obtained by The New York Times. Fair or not, despite his successes and the dangers posed by Mr. Trump, Mr. Crow told the president, “many voters are losing confidence you can do this in a second term.”
That prompted Mr. Biden to lash out at Mr. Crow, a former Army Ranger, calling him “dead wrong,” before rattling off his foreign policy accomplishments.
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“Name me a foreign leader who thinks I’m not the most effective leader in the world on foreign policy,” Mr. Biden said, adding, “Tell me who the hell that is.”
Mr. Biden’s exchange with Mr. Crow was reported earlier by Puck News.
Annie Karni contributed reporting from Milwaukee.
Carl Hulse is the chief Washington correspondent, primarily writing about Congress and national political races and issues. He has nearly four decades of experience reporting in the nation’s capital. More about Carl Hulse
Michael S. Schmidt is an investigative reporter for The Times covering Washington. His work focuses on tracking and explaining high-profile federal investigations. More about Michael S. Schmidt
Reid J. Epstein covers campaigns and elections from Washington. Before joining The Times in 2019, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Newsday, and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. More about Reid J. Epstein
Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The Times. He has covered the last five presidents and sometimes writes analytical pieces that place presidents and their administrations in a larger context and historical framework. More about Peter Baker
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