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July 15, 2024

Democrats End Their Campaign to Boot Biden From the Ticket -- and Admit They're Now "Resigned" to the Inevitability of a Trump Restoration
Biden Doubles Down on "Threat to Our Democracy" Rhetoric

As I predicted -- unfortunately, I didn't predict it here, I predicted it in an offline conversation on Saturday night -- the failed assassination of attempt didn't just have the effect of improving Trump's standing and making him appear to be an unstoppable force of nature (and possibly with Divine Providence on his side).

The failed assassination also had another great effect for Trump: It deprives the "Dump Biden" story of oxygen and urgency, therefore sealing the Democrats' fate as Biden will now be, absent a major medical event, the Democrats' doomed candidate in November.

Axios: The campaign to boot Biden has faded, and Democrats are now resigned to the inevitability of a second Trump presidency.

Congressional Democrats' all-consuming angst over President Biden's candidacy has taken an abrupt backseat in lawmakers' minds in the wake of an assassination attempt against former President Trump.

Why it matters: Democratic lawmakers say their immediate focus is on their personal security and that of their staffs, not on their party's political woes, helping to allow a crucial cooldown period for the embattled president.

"We're all just focused on expressing condolences ... and keeping our teams safe," said one House Democrat who has been fiercely critical of Biden.

A senior House Democrat suggested the post shooting atmosphere in the party is too "chaotic" for internal battles over leadership.

...


What we're hearing: A second senior House Democrat told Axios that the Trump shooting has taken some of the heat off because it would "be bad form to make any statements against President Biden."

Another Biden-skeptical Democrat, asked about lingering questions around the president's candidacy, told Axios: "I don't think that's the focus right now."

What to watch: Most lawmakers who spoke to Axios said it is too early to say whether the cessation in tensions will last until the Democratic National Convention next month.

But the second senior House Democrat offered one reason for why it might: "We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency."

The story discusses a "disastrous" call Biden had with Democrat House members on Saturday afternoon, before the Democrat-Media Party's assassin tried vainly to kill President Trump.

The assassin didn't kill Trump, but he did kill this story, which would be a huge story if he hadn't intervened in history:

As part of an effort to stop the flow of statements urging him to end his reelection bid, Biden met Saturday afternoon with the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the center-left New Democrat Coalition.

The latter call was described by lawmakers present as "tense" and a "disaster" for the president, who, they said, was combative in the face of questions about how he plans to turn around his flagging campaign.

That call came after Biden was told by Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) during a call with Hispanic Caucus members that he should drop out of the race.


Meanwhile:


From last week: Ezra Klein admitted on another pointless "Bulwark" podcast that behind the scenes, Democrats do not believe Trump is Hitler or a dictator in waiting -- they're just cynically claiming this for political reasons (and to encourage their assassins to take care of him).


More Latrina: She again refuses to climb down from the Assassination Prep campaign against Trump: She wants the "temperature lowered," but refuses to say that Biden will lower the temperature of his own intemperate rhetoric.

Recall that in Biden's gaffe-filled shhpeesch last night, in which he said our differences will be resolved at "the battle box," referred to former President Trump as "former Trump," and also almost said "Make America Great Again" before correcting himself ("Make America -- look, let's think, what makes America so special?"), he said he would continue to attack Trump on "the Constitution" and "the rule of law."

Biden was asked by Lester Holt if anything he's said has contributed to raising the temperature. Biden says "the threat to democracy is real" and insists he must continue saying it:


In other words, he wants Trump to "lower the temperature" while Biden continues calling him an ultra-MAGA extremist an an existential threat to the Republic.

Biden says it was a mistake to use the word "crosshairs" -- a word that he did not use -- and should have said "bullseye" -- which is the word he did use.

He doesn't seem to understand that bullseye is something you shoot at. It's not an actual bull's eye.

So the demented braindead Dessicated Husk is having a typically sharp-as-a-tack day.

Not 48 hours after a leftwing zombie attempted to murder President Trump, MSNBC's Niccole Wallace and her panel of Assassination Incitement Officers shriek that Akshually the greatest danger in the country is rightwing extremists.

MSNBC should have stuck to its guns and kept all commentary off the air.

The Dessicated Husk shuffles away from the podium. Biden is still unfit for office.

Note: I moved the Ezra Klein admission to this post and deleted it from the last post. It fits in with both, but I think it fits in better in this one.





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