Just two weeks ago, President Joe Biden assured that he would only leave office by divine intervention. God has not yet shown up, but nearly the entire Democratic Party establishment has, publicly and privately, asked him to go. Former President Barack Obama is no longer shy about expressing his doubts about Biden among party members and elders speaker House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has told members of Congress that she believes she can convince the president to step down “soon” as election supervisor. On Saturday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on MSNBC that Vice President Kamala Harris is “done,” and Congressman Mark Takano added that Biden should hand over to her because “the stakes are too high to fail,” according to the AP.
About 1,500 miles from Milwaukee, where Trump was embraced by the bases on Thursday night and his party’s senior staff, Biden continued to quarantine due to Covid at his beach house in Delaware. The president’s isolation is not only health-related. Several North American media published on Thursday that Biden is expected to announce his resignation this weekend. But the president’s campaign team has already announced that Biden will resume his agenda next week. Although this seems to be the only one that insists that the Democrat continues in the election race.
According to NBC News, even Biden’s family has already begun discussing an “exit” plan. Since late June, the president’s inner circle has played a key role in Biden’s fight, with critical voices calling for him to resign. The Democrat spent the hours after his “bad night” in the CNN debate against Trump at Camp David, surrounded by his loved ones, who assured him that the president was still engaged in “the fight of his political life.” His wife, Jill Biden, was among those who encouraged him to continue in the race during this time.
That his people are now considering what Biden’s exit should look like to ensure “it is worthy of the more than five decades he has served this country” reflects the extent to which the president’s candidacy has been mortally wounded. As with the information about the possible resignation this weekend, the White House has also denied that this family plan is “happening.”
Biden has been in a constant free fall ever since Trump overwhelmed him with untruths for the entire country. During these last three weeks The president has done everything he can to mitigate the impact: Give television interviews, ramp up campaign events, write a letter to your members of Congress calling for unity, meet with governors, be more energetic at key moments like the NATO summit. But nothing has worked: With every public appearance Biden has made, another member of Congress has been added to the list of lawmakers calling for him to resign, or figures like George Clooney have come out to ask him to go. Even donors have taken action, with the party’s largest super PAC, Future Forward, announcing it is freezing its $90 billion donations as long as Biden remains the candidate.
From the perspective of the criticism he has received for his statements and the mistakes he has made at key moments (such as when he introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the Russian Vladimir Putin), the strategy of filling the president’s agenda with events is different. Expose Biden as many times as necessary until the president reaches the same conclusion as the rest of the party’s critics. After Biden’s mistakes on NATO, the newspaper The New York Times published how members of his own team were already calling on the president to withdraw the nomination. The faces of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jack Sullivan when Biden called Kamala Harris “Vice President Trump” spoke more to Biden’s future than to the president’s own performance.
Six days after the solo NATO press conference, and four after the attack on Trump in Butler (which has given new impetus to the Republican campaign), Biden no longer hinted at divine intervention to leave the race: “[Renunciaría] “If a doctor told me I had this or that problem,” Biden said in a televised interview. In this way, the candidate timidly opened the door to withdrawing. The next day, he tested positive for Covid.