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Checkmate: Dem Leaders Write 'I Hereby Resign From The Presidency, No Takebacks' On Biden's Teleprompter https://t.co/dmvHsfGWnl pic.twitter.com/cJkC6bHUDe
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 2, 2024
Ron Burgundy John Gill will read anything that is put on that teleprompter. And when I say anything, I mean anything.
WHERE CHINESE CAN ENTER US UNIMPEDED: No, it’s not just on the Southern border with Mexico. It’s the Mariannas Islands where Chinese individuals can enter the U.S. legally and stay. Or head to the mainland.
HOW MUCH DIFFERENCE DO RUNNING MATES MAKE IN GENERAL? Oh: Nobody cares who Trump picks for running mate. “Republicans and Democrats were nearly identical in telling Rasmussen Reports that Trump’s pick won’t make ‘much of a difference’ on Election Day.”
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Iranian Exiles Protest Alleged Assassin’s Fellowship at Princeton.
HMM: Biden Plunges in Swing States in Leaked Post-Debate Poll.
A confidential polling memo circulating among anxious Democrats is confirming some of their worst fears: President Joe Biden’s support has started to tumble in key electoral battlegrounds in the wake of his disastrous debate performance in Atlanta, and Biden’s diminished standing is now putting previously noncompetitive states like New Hampshire, Virginia, and New Mexico in play for Donald Trump. What’s more, Biden has taken such a reputational hit that he is polling behind other alternative Democratic candidates—including Kamala Harris and Gretchen Whitmer—in hypothetical one-on-one matchups against Trump.
The memo was put together after the debate by OpenLabs, a progressive nonprofit that conducts polling and message-testing for a constellation of Democratic groups, including the 501(c)4 nonprofit associated with Future Forward, the preferred Super PAC for Biden’s reelection campaign. OpenLabs is something of a black box: Their website is mostly blank, they don’t seek publicity, and their client list is closely held. But their data-driven memos are trusted in Democratic circles, and typically passed around to a small group of clients and strategists. One of those Democrats forwarded me the OpenLabs document on Tuesday morning.
I figured it was pretty much impossible to poll worse than Harris, whose 2020 primary race folded before Iowa.
More:
The survey also found that Biden is now losing in New Hampshire, news that aligns with a Saint Anselm College poll released Monday showing Trump suddenly winning the Granite State. It’s the drip-drip of polls like these that will continue to put pressure on Biden and his team in the coming weeks, even as they seek to move on from the debate, as my colleague John Heilemann astutely noted on Monday. The other signal that will be closely watched by the Biden campaign is whether senior party members, many of whom made a show of circling the wagons over the weekend, begin to break ranks. If Biden’s falling stature starts to damage Senate and House candidates down the ballot, Democrats on Capitol Hill might take their private concerns public and demand that Biden step aside before the Democratic National Convention in August.
Related: Texas Democrat openly calls on Biden to leave presidential race. “A Texas congressman is the first sitting Democratic lawmaker to call for Joe Biden to step aside as the party’s presidential nominee, after his disastrous debate performance last week.”
Ed Morrissey adds: “Doggett is no spring chicken either. He’ll turn 78 in October, and has served for almost 30 years in Congress. He’s also safely ensconced in a D+24 district in Austin (TX-37), so it’s not as if he’s particularly vulnerable in an electoral collapse created by Biden either. If the White House has lost Doggett, they’re in trouble — big trouble.”
Emphasis in the original.
FLOP SWEAT TIME: Jake Tapper Blows Whistle on Private Meeting Democrat Governors Held About Joe Biden. “During this real-life Council of Elrond, the governors discussed their surprise at not hearing directly from Biden and expressed a desire for communication from him or his administration. They are seeking a meeting with Biden either at the White House or via Zoom, though nothing has been scheduled yet. The governors emphasized their need to hear directly from Biden amid growing concerns.”
WE’LL SOON SEE HOW MANY BRITS REMAIN IN JOLLY OLD ENGLAND: With head held high, vote Reform.
WOKE ANTISEMITISM, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY EDITION: From the invaluable Aaron Sibarium: ‘Amazing what $$$$ can do’: New Text Messages Show Columbia Deans Sneering at ‘Privilege’ of Jewish Students. Note that these text messages were exchanged long after Columbia had become notorious for pro-Hamas agitation, including the violent takeover of a university building, yet the deans dismissed concerns about antisemitism on campus as a fundraising ploy
THE GREENS ARE ANTI-PROGRESS AND ALWAYS WERE: Australia’s great leap backwards.
THE BRITISH MUSLIM MILLIONAIRE WHO IS ONE OF REFORM’S BIGGEST DONORS: Reform UK’s rising star Zia Yusuf and his fine speech on British values.
AND YET, SOMEHOW, THEY’LL HOLD ON: When you lose Jake Tapper…
THE PRESS HAD TO KNOW. PEOPLE WHO WORK WITH THE ADMINISTRATION HAD TO KNOW. THEY’RE EITHER POWER HUNGRY LIARS OR UTTER FOOLS. ALL OF THEM: So about those ‘cheap faked’ videos of Biden…
BIDEN WAS ALWAYS DUMB. JILL IS HIS TRUE MATE: Madam President’s Midwit Manifesto.
AN INTERESTING READ, AND DIFFICULT TOPIC: Book Recap: Sick Societies.
I’LL GET AHEAD OF THE NEWS: BIDEN DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF: Uh Oh… More Bad News for Democrats: Biden Cannot be Replaced on Ballot in Three Swing States, Except for Death or 25th Amendment.
YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW, BUT YOU PROBABLY SHOULD: A thread dedicated to detailing the practices of surgeons who perform transgender related surgeries on minors.
MAKING THEM WALK DOWN THE STREET BAREFOOT AND TIED TO THE TAIL OF AN INCONTINENT DONKEY WHILE BEING WHIPPED TILL THE BLOOD RUNS FREELY IS ENTIRELY OPTIONAL: Any medical professional who watched the presidential debate and is now insisting that Biden is okay should have their license revoked for gross incompetence or lack of professional ethics.
STOP, I WAS ALREADY GOING TO VOTE FOR HIM: Best Trump Ad EVER –> Leftist Accidentally Makes Trump’s Agenda 47 Sound AWESOME (WATCH).
BUT MOSTLY LIES: Truth and Lies.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! WH staffers reportedly ‘scared s–tless’ of erratic Biden, tiptoe around ‘isolated’ president during briefings: ‘Not a pleasant person to be around.’
Some White House staffers have been forced to tiptoe around President Biden when briefing him on certain topics because they want to avoid eliciting his wrath and are “scared s–tless” of him, a new report says.
“It’s like, ‘You can’t include that, that will set him off,’ or ‘Put that in, he likes that,’”a senior administration official told Politico, referring to how some of the 81-year-old president’s aides feel they have to walk through a minefield before briefings to avoid him getting angry with them.
“It’s a Rorschach test, not a briefing,” the source said. “Because he is not a pleasant person to be around when he’s being briefed. It’s very difficult, and people are scared s—less of him.”
The ghost of Edith Wilson smiles.
UPDATE: Video has emerged of one of Biden’s worst tantrums. Frankly, I had no idea things had gotten this bad for him and his beleaguered staff:
This just won the internet for today. Hands down. 😭😂👏👏
The current scene at the White House:pic.twitter.com/fp9DQ0quSS
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 2, 2024
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