It seems increasingly likely that the Democratic Party will not run in the November elections led by 81-year-old Joe Biden. The current US president is struggling to survive in politics, due to his very poor performance in the debate three weeks ago. It seems increasingly likely that he will eventually have to withdraw from the presidential nomination, and the president’s inner circle is already discussing doing so.
US President Joe Biden is going through a difficult few months. Even during the 2020 presidential election, his mental state was a topic, and many thought he would not be able to defeat Donald Trump and then lead the country, but he remained steadfast in his position in the debate against Trump, and in the end the majority of Americans voted for him.
Throughout his presidency, his advancing age and declining mental faculties have been a recurring theme due to a single misstatement or even a misstep, but in the past month it has become such a powerful theme that even his party colleagues are now publicly urging Biden to withdraw from the presidential race.
In recent weeks, more and more prominent Democrats have called on the president to step down, including Representative Nancy Pelosi, who set party policy as speaker for decades, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.
Now it seems that the Democrats' request has fallen on deaf ears with the Biden family. NBC Citing two sources close to the president's family, he said that Joe Biden's family members have already begun talking about his exit strategy.
So when, where and how can Biden announce his withdrawal from running for president?
The TV channel learned that members of the president's family have already discussed specific plans for how he will exit the race. But – as the channel reported – in addition to them, Joe Biden's closest advisers are already discussing this matter. NBC sources told the channel that Biden is the main figure in these talks. About his family and the stability of the country and It's about the impact of the campaign on the health of the 81-year-old president.
Could it happen within days?
Incidentally, the president's close advisers and allies expect that if Biden does step down, it could happen in the next few days. But there is no specific date yet.
Right now, we don't even know what we'll do tomorrow.
A person close to the Biden family told the channel.
The TV channel raised questions about its reports to the White House, but spokesman Andrew Bates called the reports false and said they would never be retracted. He said the sources could not be close to the family and would be proven wrong.
Joe Biden's campaign manager, Jen O'Malley Dillon, said on Friday that despite some stumbles during the campaign, Biden is still in the race and those calling for his resignation do not represent a majority.
The fact that the Biden family and his advisers are already discussing an exit strategy is a major development from the fact that in an interview Monday night, the president remained 100 percent in favor of staying in the race, saying he was the only one who had ever beaten Trump, but that he had not yet been able to deliver on his promised agenda in 2020, and that he would have to do so if he wins the presidential election in November.
The president is in an increasingly difficult position.
Biden, however, is not in an easy position. While his team could have planned for the attempted assassination of Trump and this week’s Republican nominating convention to distract the media from the debate over his resignation, it didn’t happen that way.
Moreover, the president's situation is made even more difficult by the fact that not only members of his party, but also those who financially support his campaign, are worried that the 81-year-old politician will lose the election to Trump in November. Moreover, while the Republicans are currently likely to win the majority in the Senate – and they are in states that are more favorable to them for elections this year – and until then, given the weakness of the presidential candidates' campaign, even the House of Representatives may go to the Democrats, meaning that they will have little control over the White House under Trump.
In addition, after Trump's assassination, the Democratic voices criticizing Biden did not fall silent, but rather the concern about the possibility of defeat intensified.
After all, Democrats see that after the June 13 assassination, the Republican Party fully supported Trump at the nominating convention held this week, and since the assassination, they have become more closed, until then they continue to argue about whether Biden is capable of defeating Trump, and leading the country for another four years.
As we noted above, Biden’s mental state was already a topic during the 2020 presidential election, but after that, due to his strong performance in the debates, he gained the trust of not only Democrats, but also the majority of Americans. However, in the first debate this year, held on June 27, the Democratic president performed very poorly and did not live up to Trump’s standards.
During the debate, Joe Biden was often tangled in his own thoughts, for example, making statements such as that he managed to eliminate the government health insurance, which was developed during his time as vice president, rather than maintain it, but he even answered a question about abortion, one of the strongest topics of the Democratic campaign, by saying that he had shifted the topic of the debate to the party’s most negative issue, the immigration issue, so that millions of Americans could see during prime time that the 81-year-old president’s psychological state was in decline.
Biden holds the key
Incidentally, Biden cannot be legally forced to step down: the incumbent president won the number of delegates needed to be nominated during this year's primary, so
It's up to Biden only to see if he will try to defeat Trump, who is currently ahead of him in the polls.
If Biden decides not to run, he has two options: either he nominates someone to support him instead, and then Biden's delegates must vote for him, or he holds what is called an open nominating meeting, in which Biden exempts the delegates from voting for him, and anyone can come forward as a candidate at the meeting, and he is then voted on by the delegates who now have a free mandate.
