HMM: Avengers Assemble! Heavyweight New Plan to Try to Force Biden Out.
“The super friends are assembling,” a House Democrat told Politico. “There’s a group of people who are going to go make their case to whomever they can get to at the White House that he needs to step aside and we’re going to get our asses kicked if he doesn’t.”
The plan would see a group of Biden’s oldest and most senior Democratic colleagues come together to make a definitive statement on behalf of the party that it would be damaging if the president were to continue. It is hoped that team would include Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, President Pro Tempore Patty Murray, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC).
The alleged showdown would end the perception that Democratic leaders are divided about whether Biden, 81, can serve as president for another four years.
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My initial impression of Biden’s press conference last night is that it was bad enough to keep the pressure on for him to leave but was good enough (graded on the generous Biden Curve) for him and Jill to keep their heels dug in.
That would be an ideal result, with a wounded Biden shuffling slowly along the road to election defeat.
But clearly the drama isn’t done playing out yet.