One person familiar with President Biden’s thinking cautioned that he had not yet made up his mind to leave the race, after three weeks of insisting that almost nothing would drive him out.
They're stuck with Biden now because it would empower the rank-and-file to replace him. If he drops out it'll prove that pressure from the voter base matters and that we can influence the Party. That's poison to Democrats, they can't have us questioning them!
I don't think it's pressure from the voter base that's doing this. Every primary voter that thinks he's an old racist piece of shit thought that in 2020. There's no grassroots campaign from party voters to back a specific alternative primary candidate; Obama and the DNC successfully killed off any possibility of grassroots party activism for a generation. I think the recent media "discovery" of Biden's longstanding medical issues is being driven by US capital worrying that he looks publicly weak, and a publicly weak president is the one thing they can't have when the president's primary role is to distract the public from the reality of bourgeois rule.
Yes, it's being driven by the donors and media, but they are still responding to voters. It's unfortunately spontaneous and disorganized, which is why I think he's going to be the nominee, but I don't think you can deny the public matters in this.
I think the real reason he could stay in is that nobody wants to run against a guy who survived an assassination. Everybody believes it means he has to win for some reason
Its not like there's a downside to being a permanent minority party. Letting us unwashed masses think we've got a say in what the Democratic party does every now and then shouldn't be a problem.
It's not like anyone is actually voting for him. No one is Biden or bust. People are just voting against Trump, same as last time. Nothing is actually gained by keeping the 81 year dementia patient on the ballot.
tbh, I hope he stays in. Biden is the true physically embodied face of the Democratic party. Don't let them don a new mask, let the people see the monsters for what they are.
So he def was so fucked up yesterday they couldn’t even get him on stage and they came up with the covid excuse and now Jill’s telling him its going to have to end
Idk. But if there's anything I've learned when trying to predict Democrats, it's that we should never underestimate their ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
That's fair, though is it even the jaws of victory here? I'd love to say I trust the general public to do the right thing and not vote Trump back in. I just... don't trust them to do that at all
Edit: what I mean is either way I think we're all screwed