Biden Loses It As Moderate Dems Slam His Leadership In ‘Tense’ Call

ANALYSIS – “Complete disaster.” As Democrats try to stop the bleeding from the gaping wound that is Joe Biden's dying presidency, Biden just keeps making things worse for himself.

Just before former President Donald Trump courageously dodged an assassin's bullet in Pennsylvania, a decrepit Biden huddled virtually with the “less leftist” New Democrat Coalition to try to stem the flow of statements calling for him to drop out.

Sadly, for Biden things didn't turn out as he had hoped.

Instead, he was raked over the coals in what sources said was a “tense” – even “awful” – meeting.

One user on X responded to the reported call, saying: “Holy crap, dude. This is insane.” “Joe Biden isn't just mildly senile. He's lost his mind.”

It “was a complete disaster. We saw the same Joe Biden from the debate,” said one House Democrat on the call.

Democrat lawmakers are also deeply worried that a drowning Biden will sink their reelections as well.

Most significantly, reports Axios: “Biden got particularly animated towards a question from Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) about slipping public confidence in his leadership as commander-in-chief.”

Axios noted:

Crow's question prompted what two members described as “shouting” from Biden, who went off on a tangent and challenged the Coloradan to “name me a foreign leader who thinks I'm not the most effective leader.”

“Tell me who the hell that is,” Biden continued, without directly addressing Crow's question about voter confidence, saying it is “dead wrong” that foreign leaders lack confidence in him and exclaiming, “I don't want to hear that crap.”

Said one member on the call: “He started shouting at Jason Crow for no reason.”

Some on the ‘New Democrats' call told Axios that they found Biden's answers unsatisfying and are less assured about his chances to beat Trump than when they came into the call.

Puck News reported:

“The call was even worse than the debate,” one of the participants told me. “He was rambling; he'd start an answer then lose his train of thought, then would just say ‘whatever.' He really couldn't complete an answer. I lost a ton of respect for him.” A second participant in the call confirmed this characterization. “The president was rambling, dismissive of concerns, unable or unprepared to present a campaign strategy, and had a particularly troubling exchange with Jason Crow—saying to him, ‘Tell me something you've never done with your Bronze Star like my son…”

“Had the assassination attempt not occurred an hour later, I imagine 50 people on that Zoom [call] were ready to come out publicly against him.” (Biden ended the call on Saturday, just after 5 p.m., by saying his staff told him it was time for mass. The attempted assassination happened shortly after 6 p.m.) 

“He had no answer to questions about his electability. He seemed oblivious to the polling that shows him losing swing states. He didn't want to hear it … He didn't try to reassure anyone. He took no responsibility,” one lawmaker on the call said.

The same Democrat lawmaker said the group was considering a call for Biden to withdraw from the race. He added that and the Zoom meeting “probably” makes it more likely they will do it.

Meanwhile, Newsmax reports that 2/3 of Democrats want Biden to drop out:

Nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his party nominate a different candidate, according to a new poll, sharply undercutting his post-debate claim that “average Democrats” are still with him even if some “big names” are turning on him.

The new survey by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, conducted as Biden works to salvage his candidacy two weeks after his debate flop, also found that only about 3 in 10 Democrats say they are extremely or very confident that he has the mental capability to serve effectively as president, down slightly from 40% in an AP-NORC poll in February.

The findings underscore the challenges the 81-year-old president faces as he tries to silence calls from within his own party to leave the race and tries to convince Democrats that he's the best candidate to defeat Donald Trump.

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