The “will he or won’t he” saga surrounding whether Joe Biden will exit the presidential race took another turn Thursday night with the disastrous NATO summit press conference that he did.
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Biden wasn’t even long into the presser before he was confusing Kamala Harris and his political opponent, former President Donald Trump, and called Trump his Vice President, so you know how well it went.
But it’s fish or cut bait time. As Rep. Nancy Pelosi indicated during her remarks on Morning Joe, she was giving Biden time to deal with the NATO summit.
Now that’s over, and they need to settle the problem. Barack Obama also signaled that Biden’s protection was off when he didn’t stop George Clooney from going ahead with his op-ed calling for Biden to step aside.
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At this point, as our sister site Townhall points out, even former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Pskai thinks it’s a mess, and 99 percent of the staff don’t know what the plan is moving forward.
Nów, word comes that Obama and Pelosi have been huddling on what to do about Biden.
CNN says Democrats are looking to the two of them to help get the Democrats out of the mess of the infighting that is currently imploding their campaign efforts.
Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi have spoken privately about Joe Biden and the future of his 2024 campaign. Both the former president and ex-speaker expressed concerns about how much harder they think it’s become for the president to beat Donald Trump. Neither is quite sure what to do.
Democrats are desperate for the dispiriting infighting to end so they can get back to trying to beat the former president. And they’re begging either Obama or Pelosi to help them get there, aware that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer doesn’t have the trust of Biden and that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries doesn’t have the depth of relationship to deliver the message.
CNN spoke with more than a dozen members of Congress, operatives and multiple people in touch with both Obama and Pelosi, many of whom say that the end for Biden’s candidacy feels clear and at this point it’s just a matter of how it plays out, even after Thursday night’s news conference.
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Pelosi does not see Biden’s decision to stay in as final, the report says. Does that mean next comes the push and/or the negotiation?
But Obama’s deepening skepticism about his friend’s ability to win reelection is one of the worst kept secrets in Washington.
When the history of this extraordinary two-week period of American politics is written, the fingerprints of Obama and Pelosi will be far more apparent than currently known, people familiar with the matter tell CNN, as the Democratic elders have served as a guidepost for a party in panic. [….]
“He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,” Clooney wrote in an essay in The New York Times this week, imploring Biden to step aside.
It was those words that infuriated some Biden loyalists, who suggested that Obama was behind Clooney’s op-ed. The former president, who is friendly with the actor, was aware that it was coming but did not try to stop it. To some Obama defenders, that was a way of preserving his neutrality, but to some Biden loyalists, it was a mark of deep betrayal.
As Matt Vespa at Townhall observes, part of Obama’s problem is paralysis by analysis; he was continually overthinking and not getting things done. But they can only go so long in that abyss of indecision here before their time runs out if this report is correct. And the more they play games, the more Biden will dig in his heels, thinking people are against him because that’s how he deals with challenges.
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