The post-disaster pummeling of Biden

 

 

 Jeffrey St. Clair>>

+ Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker: “Joe Biden’s stubbornness in refusing to step aside as the Democratic nominee until July is the single biggest reason for Donald Trump’s victory…Biden’s arrogance remains astonishing to behold.”

+ Nancy Pelosi joined in the post-disaster pummeling of Biden, telling the New York Times: “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race. The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary. Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”

+ Meanwhile, Jon Favreau, former Obama speechwriter and current cohost of Pod Save America, said Biden’s internal polling after his debate showed Biden gettnig crushed by Trump, who’d win 400 electoral votes: “Joe Biden’s decision to run for president again was a catastrophic mistake. It just was. He and his inner circle refused to believe the polls. They refused to believe he was unpopular. They refused to acknowledge until very late that anyone could be upset about inflation, and they just kept telling us that the presidency was historic and that it was the greatest economy ever. We just heard him again say, it’s “the greatest economy ever.” Clearly, 70, 80 percent of voters don’t believe that. They don’t believe that about their own personal financial situation, but they just keep telling us that. And then after the debate, the Biden people told us that the polls were fine and Biden was still the strongest candidate. They were privately telling reporters at the time that Kamala Harris couldn’t win. So they were shivving Kamala Harris to reporters while they told everyone else, “Not a time for an open process and his vice president can’t win, so he’s the strongest candidate.” Then we find out, when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling, at the time they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes.”

+ A post-election poll confirms that voters were done with Biden and that he was likely a drag on Harris…

+ Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker: “Joe Biden’s stubbornness in refusing to step aside as the Democratic nominee until July is the single biggest reason for Donald Trump’s victory…Biden’s arrogance remains astonishing to behold.”

+ Nancy Pelosi joined in the post-disaster pummeling of Biden, telling the New York Times: “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race. The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary. Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”

+ Meanwhile, Jon Favreau, former Obama speechwriter and current cohost of Pod Save America, said Biden’s internal polling after his debate showed Biden gettnig crushed by Trump, who’d win 400 electoral votes: “Joe Biden’s decision to run for president again was a catastrophic mistake. It just was. He and his inner circle refused to believe the polls. They refused to believe he was unpopular. They refused to acknowledge until very late that anyone could be upset about inflation, and they just kept telling us that the presidency was historic and that it was the greatest economy ever. We just heard him again say, it’s “the greatest economy ever.” Clearly, 70, 80 percent of voters don’t believe that. They don’t believe that about their own personal financial situation, but they just keep telling us that. And then after the debate, the Biden people told us that the polls were fine and Biden was still the strongest candidate. They were privately telling reporters at the time that Kamala Harris couldn’t win. So they were shivving Kamala Harris to reporters while they told everyone else, “Not a time for an open process and his vice president can’t win, so he’s the strongest candidate.” Then we find out, when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling, at the time they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes.”

+ A post-election poll confirms that voters were done with Biden and that he was likely a drag on Harris…