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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.
The Dem chance at a clean change from Biden to a younger option was last year, not 4 months prior, at least not with how the antiquated US election system works. Changing it now is fucking stupid, the table has been set. People are calling to flip the table because somehow they’re just now realizing that old people are old. This is what the Dem leadership has created, and regardless of their second guessing now it’s what we need to live with.
Just another in a long running series of stupid decisions by Dem leadership over the last 30 years, always shooting themselves in the foot and assuming people will still vote for them. With middling success every time, yet never learning anything because the same old fucks are still running it all somehow.
4 months should be enough time still, IMO
Enough time for what? There’s no way to put together another primary. So who in the Democratic party gets to play kingmaker?
The same party insiders who’ve played kingmaker during the last two primaries
Pretty fuckin scary just how literal that word is now, after the immunity ruling.
Idgaf. Let them pick a king and then I’ll vote for him so we don’t get Trump
Just so we’re clear, what if the king is a woman?
I would definitely vote for King Margo. “Ovary up, bitch.”
I would absolutely vote for King Margo.
If you’re going to vote blue regardless then your opinions on primary elections and the candidates can be safely ignored.
The people you’re trying to reach will not vote blue no matter who. They need to be convinced, given enthusiasm rather than apathy and derision.
I mean, exactly. The people who need reaching aren’t gonna vote for old man Biden, so swapping to literally anyone gives a better chance at beating Trump, and we don’t have the luxury of time. A random choice will have some chance to attract those voters Biden won’t.
Agreed. Literally anyone else would increase the margin of undecideds.
If you’re going to complain about the DNC playing kingmaker, I hope you’re equally outraged about Hillary’s campaign being given financial control of the party before the 2016 primary, or Obama convincing multiple candidates to drop out and give Biden enough room to beat Bernie in 2020, or the DNC making the South Carolina primary the first on the calendar to sure up support for Biden in 2024. If that doesn’t outrage you, you might consider the possibility that you don’t actually care that the Democrats pick kings, just that your preferred candidate might not be crowned.
Oh, you don’t like it?
How the fuck about that.