Contrary to everything you read in the media, the last person who knows if Biden will be the Democratic candidate come November is Joe Biden himself. That’s not who is running the White House today; nor is it his wife Jill, son Hunter, or sister Valerie—as personally influential as they may be. That’s not how such decisions about the Presidency of the United States are made.
Joe is sayin’ he’s stayin’. He told campaign staffers in a mid-week conference call, according to a person familiar with the remarks cited by the Washington Post: “Let me say this as clearly as I possibly can and as simply and straightforward as I can: I am running. I’m the nominee of the Democratic Party. No one’s pushing me out. I’m not leaving. I’m in this race to the end, and we’re going to win because when Democrats unite, we always win.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, who was reportedly also on the call, said Joe is staying: “We will not back down. We will follow our President’s lead. We will fight, and we will win.”
A bunch of Democratic governors spoke with Biden and bravely marched out to tell the press, according to The Guardian: “The governors have his back” (Tim Walz, MN); “We said we would stand with him … we’re going to have his back” (Wes Moore, MD); and, most implausibly, “We feel very confident in his abilities” (Kathy Hochul, NY).
But that’s not what the big money-bags are saying, nor the editorial line of the Anglo-American Establishment press. “The high-dollar donor community, meanwhile, has overwhelmingly turned against Biden, according to people familiar with the conversations,” the Washington Post reported. “Multiple top party donors joined the chorus on Tuesday in phone conversations with Pelosi and Schumer to say that the current situation was not sustainable and a new nominee was needed, according to people familiar with the call.” The New York Times had the same line: “Key party donors have been privately calling House members, senators, super PACs, the Biden campaign and the White House to say that they think Mr. Biden should step down, according to Democrats familiar with the discussion.”
Financial Times, the voice of the City of London (the center of the bankrupt trans-Atlantic financial system), again made their view clear that Biden is not the man to stop Trump: “Pressure mounted on the President on Wednesday [July 3], with new calls from within the party for him to drop out and polls showing a sharp fall in support for his candidacy in recent days.… Arizona Democratic congressman Raúl Grijalva on Wednesday became the second House member to publicly call for Biden to suspend his re-election bid.… Betting markets on Wednesday shifted sharply in favor of Harris, giving her better odds of winning the election than Biden.
A second Financial Times article drove the point home: “Interviews with party donors, consultants and operatives since Thursday’s debate have revealed a growing belief that Biden is no longer fit to challenge Donald Trump for the presidency and should make way for a younger candidate.… `You can’t run the country with a teleprompter,’ said an adviser to a big Biden donor.”
London’s The Economist ran a lead article on July 4 headlined “Why Biden Must Withdraw.” “His inability to land an argument against a weak opponent was dispiriting. But the operation by his campaign to deny what tens of millions of Americans saw with their own eyes is more toxic than either, because its dishonesty provokes contempt.”
