Democrats are going to continue reeling from Joe
Biden’s abysmal debate performance last Thursday night, where former
President Donald Trump dog walked the aging Delaware liberal to the
point where you did feel a little bit bad for him. But then you remember
that feelings are irrelevant here, and we need to destroy this man
politically to save the country. To quote James Carville, when your
opponent is drowning, throw him an anvil, not a life jacket. Trump did
that but there was no anvil. It wasn’t necessary. He simply let Biden
drown on his own volition.
Trump’s evisceration of Biden is hardly a secret for most, but
liberal America is coping especially hard. There’s no excuse for it. We
saw it numerous times. There are polls to that effect. Those surveys are
likely worse now. The combination of arrogance and anti-Trump bias is a
deadly political speedball that’s left progressives overdosing and in
need of Narcan. In Los Angeles, CNN reported on what could be described
as a total meltdown among attendees, which included elected Democrats
and Hollywood elitists. Jane Fonda was reportedly brought to tears (via CNN):
Multiple
Democratic officials and operatives, some of whom are affiliated with
alternatives and those who are not, rage that Biden has demonstrated too
much of an ego to have bowed out before. The president’s argument that
he was the Democrat best able to beat Trump, several said, has now been
turned on its head and they are left feeling he’s the option least able
to beat Trump.
They say the president’s inner circle who have
been running the campaign and prepared him for the debate – and who told
some privately ahead of Thursday night that the prep had gone well –
are either not being honest or are not capable of steering him either
toward an exit or a recovery. At a LGBTQ fundraiser in New York City on
Friday night, one attendee said some of the conversations even turned
against Jill Biden, with the deep love for her as the quirky reluctant
political spouse quickly curdling into exasperation that she is not
willing to make the move that would lead to them leaving the White
House.
Even as minds turn to a list that includes Harris,
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Whitmer, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear,
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Georgia Sen.
Raphael Warnock, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and even
relatively new Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Maryland Gov. Wes
Moore, none have gone public with anything but words of support for
Biden. They worry about being called traitors. They worry that it might
make Biden dig in more.
A debate watch party in Los Angeles on
Thursday night happened to feature Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff,
Pritzker, Whitmer and Beshear. There were other high-profile attendees –
by a few answers in, Rob Reiner was screaming about losing and Jane
Fonda had tears in her eyes, according to people in the room.
The lengthy piece also expounded upon a hypothetical of an open
convention, where Vice President Kamala Harris pulls a Brutus. Yet,
there’s messy identity politics that leech through this scenario, even
if far-fetched. Donna Brazile was quoted wondering how all these white
Democrats could be placed ahead of the VP regarding these candidate
replacement talks [emphasis mine]:
The vice
president’s “I’m not going to spend all night with you talking about the
last 90 minutes when I’ve been watching the last three-and-a-half years
of performance,” which people in her orbit say she came up with on the
fly herself, has since been picked up by campaign operatives in addition
to the first lady.
Harris would have other advantages too. A top
outside political adviser, Minyon Moore, was months ago named the
official in charge of convention proceedings, and others like her former
chief of staff Tina Flournoy and Brazile have key committee roles too.
Nor are her supporters shy about making their opinions known.
In
an interview, Brazile said that her reaction to the calls that she has
been getting since the debate with people inquiring about other
candidates is: “How the f**k are you going to put all these white people ahead of Kamala?”
Brazile coming in like a “hot sister”
again on that one but taking communications cues and advice from Harris
is another sign that this party got broadsided, and they don’t know
what to do because, yeah; Joe Biden is mentally declining.
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