Biden Told Ally That He Is Weighing Whether to Continue in the Race

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/us/politics/biden-withdraw-election-debate.html

24 comments

  1. “Two more events” by the weekend? What kind of nonsense, arbitrary standard is that? So as long as Biden gets through a couple more days without a major gaffe, he’s A-OK to go for the next four years? That cannot be the decision matrix.

  2. He needed to do live interviews this week to have a chance of salvaging any chance of winning. The fact that he hasn’t speaks volumes.

    If it was a ‘bad night’ he should prove it. Have a press conference. Call on right wing journalists. If you can’t, then step aside for someone who can.

  3. Whether he stays or goes, it’s important we rally around the chosen candidate

    We lose this election we’ll probably lose our country. Whether it’s Biden, Newsom, Blinken, or god forbid even Harris, they’ll have my support

  4. He would be 85 at the end of next term. You think he’s going to suddenly improve. Let’s just move on and let Gretchen crush trump this is like so easy.

  5. I genuinely think he should drop out and give a younger person a shot.

    However, if we’re replacing Biden with Kamala Harris — we’re going to be stuck in the same situation. I’m pretty sure her approval/popularity is _worse_ than Biden’s.

    I don’t envy the DNC in this situation but they’ve no one to blame but themselves here.

  6. He has to do what is best for the country. We cannot have another Trump Presidency.

  7. “Several allies of Mr. Biden . . . have underscored that the president is still in the fight of his political life.”

    He has had a “political life” that may be unprecedented in it’s length already. Everything dies at some point. There is no shame in ending it here.

  8. I would absolutely love Gavin Newsom step in. I’ve been saying for a while: the first side to give up their presumptive nominee for a younger candidate is going to have an insurmountable advantage in the race.

  9. Yeah he’s stepping down. You don’t let this leak and be on the front page of the NYT unless you do it yourself.

    I’m guessing he’s getting pressure for everywhere to bow out and the decision has been made, we’re in the spin zone right now where it will be framed as Biden’s decision in order to save face for both him and the party.

  10. I will vote for whoever the Democrat on the ballot is, I don’t care at this point.

  11. I just hope that he and the Democratic Party do whatever is the best chance to defeat trump in November. Set your ego aside, and do what is right for our country. That being said, I will gladly vote for Biden if he ends up being the nominee.

  12. > The president’s conversation is the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta. A White House official said the claim was false.

  13. The title is incongruent with what the ally actually says. And what the rest of the article even claims. Both talk about Biden knowing his candidancy is in a make or break state; but nothing about him deciding whether to drop out or not. 

  14. I’m so angry that Biden ever sought reelection in the first place. Can you imagine the DNC putting together a winning campaign for anyone in like 4 months? They’ve been so inept.

  15. I heard that Trump told an ally that he Is weighing babies and is considering eating them. It was told by a top adviser to Mr. Trump, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

  16. Feels like a lose lose situation at this point. Because if he does drop out, I can’t see any candidate they choose being able to rally all liberal and independent voters needed to win. If he doesn’t, well, people are unfortunately more concerned about the tired looking old man than the energetic, lying, nonsense spewing, felonious old man who wants to be a dictator.

    I’m still voting blue all the way down the ballot, but my optimism is shot to hell.

  17. This is the NYT. The same once great but now absolute trash rag that worked hand in hand with the Bush admin to lie the US into an unnecessary war w/Iraq. Can’t trust a word they put out any more.

  18. It’s a guarantee that Trump won’t debate a replacement. That means we need someone that can inspire and communicate. If the replacement can’t deliver a speech that moves people, what’s the point in switching the candidate.

  20. If you are an undecided voter then I’m sorry, you’re an idiot. Republicans policies are completely insane and incoherent. Even if Biden was in a coma, I would still want the people around him running the country rather than the criminals trump employs.

  22. Another clickbait article where the only source is the white house official saying, “this isn’t true.”

  23. The NYT is writing about this at an obscene rate. Apparently they are also saying no they didn’t and Biden is saying he isn’t leaving.

    That all being said I am growing suspicious of NYT when in reality they are not talking about the new Epstein files being dropped with Trump all over them. We really ignoring a pedo?

  24. Last night I told my wife that even if Biden was in his coffin, I’d vote for him over Trump and that we should inaugurate him in January and just have 4 years of a weekend at Joes.

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