Knives out
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Everyone knows that Biden is too old and mentally weak, but it's interesting to watch the dems try and figure out where to place their chips. If the DNC really got behind a solid, younger candidate (not saying it's him, but someone random like Jeffries), they might be able to bring fresh energy and turnout enthusiasm as Obama did in 2008.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/13/politics/biden-reelection-campaign/index.html
The conversations keep happening – quiet whispers on the sidelines of events, texts, emails, furtive phone calls – as top Democrats and donors reach out to those seen as possible replacement presidential candidates.
Get ready, they urge, in conversations that aides to several of the people involved have described to CNN: Despite what he has said, despite the campaign that has been announced, President Joe Biden won’t actually be running for reelection.
They feel like time is already running out and that the lack of the more robust campaign activity they want to see is a sign that his heart isn’t really in it.
It’s a persistent sense that the inner circle of advisers to the president and several of the very few aides who have been hired for his reelection campaign dismiss as absurd. Of course, he is running, they say. Of course, they’re taking preparations very seriously. And, with the always present Biden chip on their shoulder, of course they’re being written off again by the purported wise elders of the party and pundits who still refuse to take him seriously.
“They are so underestimated, and they keep getting it right,” said Jim Messina, former president Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign manager, who has been one of the people privately advising Biden’s team to ramp up gradually.
Anxiety, complaints and apocalyptic thinking that have often defined Democrats in the Biden years are about to get their latest Rorschach test, with the disclosure of fundraising for the first few months of his campaign – which must be filed by Saturday.
Seen on Twitter: "Biden 2024 depends on him being able to hold together that long; and a year, let alone 5 years is a long time for an old man."
