Biden has nobody left in his corner…
The National Review editorial board called on President Joe Biden to resign from office in a scathing editorial on Sunday.
“Biden should take the next logical step and resign the presidency,” the editorial board wrote. “It's possible to imagine a president not being able to campaign but still being capable of carrying out his official duties — say, if he had a serious physical impairment. And it is even possible to imagine a president who could serve for another six months but not another four and a half years. But such scenarios do not apply to Biden.”
Biden has obviously been confused in public, and we are getting disturbing reports of his not recognizing friends and Democratic lawmakers in private. He has not convened a full cabinet meeting since last October, and CNN reported that when he does, “it is customary for Cabinet officials to submit questions and key talking points that they plan to present in front of Biden ahead of time to White House aides.” Similarly, the White House has pre-screened questions before press interviews. Whatever the level of his decline at the moment, it is sure to get worse. The country deserves to have complete assurance that the president of the United States, whatever his party or ideology, is fully in possession of his faculties.
The board argued Biden's decision to officially resign from office would also create a “honeymoon” around Kamala Harris‘ campaign.
It's unclear how a Kamala Harris nomination would affect the race. She would instantly take the age issue off the table and may be able to regain some ground among traditional Democratic constituencies. On the other hand, as a woke, relatively young progressive from California, she probably wouldn't do as well as Biden did among older white voters. Harris would be vulnerable to the charge of radicalism in a way Biden wasn't as a doddering old man, and certainly nothing prior to this extraordinary turn of events has suggested that she's an exceptional political talent. As Biden's vice president, she also carries both the policy baggage of his administration and her own implication in the cover-up.
The National Review then turned its ire towards Biden's family and inner circle who knew of the President's deterioration and chose to hide the truth from the American people. “They all knew what was going on but figured that if they didn't talk about it, somehow people wouldn't notice. Of course, they did, ” they wrote.
That cover-up was intended to deceive the American people, but its first victims were Democratic primary voters, who were denied a real choice or a real say in their party's nominee. The serious potential candidates were sidelined by pressure to close ranks publicly behind Biden, who refused to debate the few, marginal primary opponents he attracted. The party owes an apology to Congressman Dean Phillips, who ran a quixotic campaign to sound the alarm.
White House sources reportedly indicated that President Joe Biden's hesitation to drop his re-election bid stemmed partly from concerns about Vice President Kamala Harris' ability to defeat former President Donald Trump in an election.
Axios reporter Alex Thompson said that three of Biden's aides familiar with private talks about his plans relayed to him the president's concerns about Harris as a viable nominee this November in an article published just one day after Biden announced he was dropping out and endorsed his vice president.
Former President Barack Obama has refrained from endorsing Harris explicitly and remarked in a statement on Sunday: “We will be navigating uncharted waters in the days ahead. But I have extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges.”
On Monday, Nancy Pelosi officially endorsed Harris for President.
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