By Jeff Crouere ——Bio and Archives--August 18, 2024
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What a difference a month makes! In July, President Joe Biden was supposedly committed to his candidacy while recovering from a “bad night” in his first debate against President Donald Trump. Biden blamed his atrocious performance on being “exhausted” and “sick” from extensive international travel.
In a July 8 letter to his fellow Democrats in Congress, Biden wrote, “The debate about me running is over. I’m running. I was voted for by 14 million people in the Democratic primary. Are you trying to take away their voice? We’re done with this.”
Biden made a similar vow during an ABC interview after the debate. He claimed only the “Lord Almighty” would force him to end his campaign. According to Biden, he would stay in the race because the Democratic Party leaders were behind him and “the Lord Almighty’s not coming down.”
Well, it did not take the “Lord Almighty” to remove Biden from the race, only former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and a host of other Democratic Party leaders. One Democratic Party operative, given anonymity, told Politico, “Nancy made clear that they could do this the easy way or the hard way. She gave them three weeks of the easy way. It was about to be the hard way.”
Of course, the “hard way” would have been more Democratic Party leaders publicly demanding his departure and possibly his removal via the 25th Amendment, with the support of Vice President Kamala Harris and most of the cabinet. Biden did not want........