Key quotes:
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is working furiously behind the scenes to put pressure on President Biden to reconsider his place at the top of the 2024 ticket, according to a number of Democratic lawmakers familiar with her efforts.
The Speaker emerita is talking to a broad swath of House Democrats — from front-liners in tough districts to hardened veterans with institutional clout — to pump the brakes on the notion that Biden should definitively be the party’s nominee heading into November, these lawmakers said.
Pelosi has not said Biden should exit the race, but the lawmakers said she harbors deep concerns about Biden’s ability to defeat former President Trump, and she’s fighting to prevent the party from rubber-stamping Biden’s candidacy before there’s a broader discussion about the potentially damaging consequences of that decision.
Note: This is a “breaking” story, as in, its been leaked and is just now showing up on multiple outlets.
Some more quotes:
“I did have a conversation with her, she is very concerned,” said a House Democratic lawmaker who spoke anonymously to discuss a sensitive topic. “It’s not like she’s like, ‘We’re sticking with this guy.'”
A number of other lawmakers have had similar discussions.
“I’ve had my own conversations with her,” a second Democrat said.
“It’s just an obvious concern. The stakes are so high. We can’t afford to do anything but have our best possible opportunity to win,” the lawmaker said, relaying Pelosi’s message.
Pelosi’s push for a deeper assessment of Biden’s candidacy, sources say, is rooted in concerns that the president’s campaign has responded to his disastrous June 27 debate performance with emotional appeals to staunch allies and a show of forceful defiance — but not an honest reckoning with underlying image problems or an objective analysis of the political fallout.
“Team Biden made it clear what their strategy was: ignore the problem, run out the clock, and force the rest of us to live with it,” said Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), who has publicly called on Biden to step aside. “I felt a certain urgency to upset that strategy.”
Like…
Wowza.
Pelosi the corporate democrat needs to step down and stop bowing down to the oppressors
You should just not.
I don’t believe any of this I hear. I think Biden made it clear he is running
BIdens opinion is rapidly becoming irrelevant. We don’t live in a dictatorship. Biden isn’t even winning a majority of Democratic voters right now.
Democratic voters, 60% of them, want him to step down.
This will be like Humphries in 68.
Remember how he won? Remember him at all? Don’t worry: Biden plays the Johnson role here, with Trump playing the Nixon.
Binary choice. Biden, or every other option destroys the country. Good luck.
Thats a fantasy that is destroying our ability to stop Trump.
You are in a cult.
So who is going to step up? Is she negotiating with Gavin Newsholm or Buttiege, or someone?
Are you suggesting I’m trolling? Motherfucker, if that fat radioactive orange piece of shit were in front of me right now, I’d stab him with my chef’s knife. I’m not trolling or being disingenuous. I want someone to bury his ass in the ground.
What you are doing is a form of gaslighting/ trolling. Its a way to derail/ sidestep the central issue of the conversation.
You maybe have gaslit yourself into a specific set of beliefs, but that doesn’t make them reality.
Would be AWFULLY convenient for trump if the Democratic party splinters rn
Would be AWFULLY convenient for trump
Would also be convenient for him if the Dems stick with Biden.
