Joe Biden’s presidency is no more. It was four years of failure and
chaos. It was also an exercise in inflated egos—Biden thinks he’s one of
the most accomplished presidents in history but can’t list anything
when asked in interviews. When your go-to talking point for policies
that helped America’s middle class is a bill that made it easier to
break up monopolies, you’ve done nothing.
No one cares that when credit card debt has exploded to historic
highs and inflation remains unacceptable, eating away at working
families. As the dust settles from the melee that forced the president
to exit the race, one senior aide knows who’s to blame, and it’s not
Barack Obama. Though the former president did play a part in drumming up
the pressure on his former vice president (via NY Post):
A
top adviser to President Biden is “absolutely” blaming House Speaker
emerita Nancy Pelosi for tanking his re-election campaign — and accusing
Democratic donors of ignoring the will of their party’s primary voters
in swapping him out for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Anita Dunn,
a White House senior adviser on communications who has since departed
for a Harris super PAC, inveighed against Biden’s doubters in Congress
and elsewhere in her first interview since the 81-year-old president
dropped out of the 2024 race.
“You know, clearly there were
leaders of the party who decided to go ahead and go very public. And
that gave permission to other people to go public,” Dunn told Politico
of the growing chorus of Democrats calling on Biden to abandon his run
after his debate flop June 27.
Asked whether she was referring to
“senators and House members” as well as “when Nancy Pelosi goes on TV
twice when things feel like they’re dying down and reopens the debate,”
Dunn shot back, “Absolutely.”
Pelosi and Biden haven’t spoken in weeks—is anyone shocked?
Biden’s
huffy and slurred farewell address was a mini-State of the Union where
the lame-duck president listed things he planned to accomplish. None of
them will get done this deep in an election cycle and a House Republican
majority. The president made the case for a second term—the country
didn’t want it. It’s why he quit; he was veering quickly toward a
1980-style defeat. His June 27 debate with Donald Trump was a disaster,
an election-killing event that led to the Democratic Party rebellion
that became too widespread to quell.
The president is said to
have especially sour feelings toward Obama, who he felt was the true
puppet master; maybe he was. Obama certainly was aware of the damning
op-ed penned by George Clooney, which increased the pressure on Biden to
quit. The former president didn’t order the hit piece but didn’t do
anything to dissuade the Hollywood star from sending it to The New York
Times.
If Biden had hit grand slams in the three interviews
post-debate on ABC, NBC, and BET, he might still be the 2024 Democratic
candidate. Instead, they were middling trainwrecks, with the BET
interview being especially brutal, forgetting the name of Defense
Secretary Lloyd Austin, who Biden referred to as the “black man.” Then,
his Nevada trip, where he caught COVID and possibly had a mini-stroke or
transient ischemic attack, put the final nail in the coffin. The
president had also met with his top money man, Jeffrey Katzenberg, who
said the fundraising operation was bleeding to death.
Pelosi has maintained she wasn’t behind the effort to force out
Biden, saying she never called anyone. Every reporter who has covered
the former House speaker knows that’s a lie. Frankly, I think Pelosi,
Obama, and Schumer formed a triumvirate in this effort to dump Joe. You
know this already. It only exposes how weak this presidency was since
this office is supposed to squash uprisings like this, given the
built-in institutional power and advantages. It goes back to Pelosi’s trashing of Biden’s political operation. When she saw they could easily be outflanked—she pounced:
“I’ve
never been that impressed with his political operation,” she told The
New Yorker in an interview published Thursday. “They won the White
House. Bravo. But my concern was: this ain’t happening, and we have to
make a decision for this to happen. The President has to make the
decision for that to happen.”
[…]
While Pelosi privately
voiced concerns to Biden about the dire polling of June and July which
suggested a widening battleground map, she has only just begun to
publicly reflect on her view that the Biden campaign was not in a
winning position. The San Francisco Democrat was still hesitant to admit
playing a singular role in the push to bring Biden down.
“I
really wanted him to make a decision for a better campaign, because they
were not facing the fact of what was happening,” Pelosi said after
praising Biden’s accomplishments. “We couldn’t see it go down the drain,
because Trump was going to be president and then he was going to take
the House. Imagine! Imagine how that would be! Well, we don’t have to
imagine. We saw.”
She’s ruthless, always has been, despite her moments where she blows up at the media.
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