There can be no doubt, especially after his disastrous debate performance, that Joe Biden was headed for a catastrophic loss in November had he remained in the race. He’s clearly not capable; his decline has been apparent for years, and it’s accelerating. His withdrawal from the campaign was probably inevitable.
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But what happened after that was not. Granted, Kamala Harris, the Queen of Word Salads, was his understudy (and life insurance), but the Democratic Party’s anointing her as the Chosen One was poorly done; they would have done better to declare an open convention and at least maintained the pretense of letting the voters have a say. But that’s not what happened. Joe Biden was rudely forced out, Kamala was anointed, and that’s that.
Now, a growing chorus of Democratic insiders are noting that befuddled old Joe and whoever is pulling his strings (Frau Doktor Professor Jill Biden) is inclined to be peevish about the whole thing, and they may well be deliberately throwing a series of spike strips in the road in front of the Harris/Walz campaign bus.
Et Tu, Biden?
President Biden is so bitter about being forced to drop his re-election bid by top members of his own party that he’s deliberately sabotaging Kamala Harris’ campaign, according to a growing chorus of political pundits.
Since being pressured out of the race in July over fears about declining cognitive abilities, Biden has done little for Harris beyond endorsing her, and has largely been a no-show at his vice president’s campaign events.
Honestly, being a no-show at Kamala Harris’s campaign events is the one thing old Joe Biden has done that is helping the Harris/Walz ticket. Nothing they are doing seems to be moving the numbers in their direction. But the Bidens do seem to be trodding on Harris’ toes, and it’s really looking deliberate.
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He’s also pulled the spotlight from his intended successor on numerous occasions, including delivering his own comments last week on how the White House is responding to Hurricane Helene — even after Harris cancelled a Las Vegas campaign event and hurried back to DC to be briefed on the storm’s impact.
The lame-duck leader has also served up a plethora of cringe-worthy actions that have left Donald Trump-loving conservatives salivating. They include sporting a “Trump 2024” cap during a 9/11 anniversary event last month, and praising Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Tuesday for how he’s prepped the Sunshine State to handle Hurricane Milton — one day after Harris complained the DeSantis didn’t take her call.
Well, the Trump cap, that was more a troll by a Trump voter at that event – it’s pretty certain that Joe had little or no idea what was going on, which frankly was part of the reason he was pushed so rudely aside. But if Joe Biden and the person who is playing Edith Wilson to Joe’s post-stroke Woodrow have done some things to sabotage the Harris/Walz campaign, it’s small potatoes against what they have done to sabotage themselves.
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I mean, really, sending Tim “Great Walz of China” out to talk man-stuff? Tim Walz has accomplished one great feat in this election cycle: he made John Kerry look more manly by comparison. (Note: By comparison.) Kerry, after all, actually did deploy to a combat zone, unlike Walz, even if Kerry’s behavior afterward was reprehensible. And not even Barack Obama, it seems, can stop young black men from looking back at the pre-COVID Trump years and thinking, “You know, things were pretty good,” and voting for their economic interests instead of their skin color.
Going forward, Democrats and Republicans alike can look at the Harris/Walz campaign and, indeed, Democrat actions throughout this election cycle as a lesson on what not to do.