Before President-elect Donald Trump withdrew from the race in July, the presidential pollster estimated he had a 95 percent chance of defeating President Joe Biden. new york times It was reported on Friday.
Mr. Biden said two weeks ago that he believed he could have defeated Mr. Trump had he stayed in the race.
Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly disputed allegations of Biden's declining mental acuity as president, even though Biden did not reveal any information he did not want made public. He said he was “disappointed” by the comment.
Pollsters' predictions were: published in times An article about Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) 45-minute meeting with Biden on July 13, 2024, in which he asked him to withdraw from the race.
Schumer, who has defended Biden's cognitive abilities for years and remains publicly adamant that Biden's mental acuity is solid, is a “central part” of the argument to force Biden to resign. About a half-dozen people interviewed said that Biden took advantage of his mental acuity. Book, reported by times:
If a secret ballot was held among Democratic senators, Schumer would tell the president fewer than five would say he should continue running. Mr. Biden's own polling agency estimates that Mr. Biden has about a 5% chance of defeating Donald J. Trump, Mr. Schumer told Mr. Biden – information that clearly matters to the president. It was news. And if the president refuses to step down, senators will argue, Democrats and Biden's own half-century of public service will be devastated.
“If you run and lose to Trump, if you lose the Senate and you don't take back the House, that 50 years of great, beautiful work is gone,” Schumer said. “But even worse, you go down as one of the darkest figures in American history.”
He would finish with instructions. “If it were me, I wouldn't run, and I would recommend that you don't run,” Schumer said.
Schumer was not the only Democratic lawmaker accused of forcing Biden to resign. Others include Barack Obama, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York).
But many of Biden's advisers disagreed with them. “We will get through this,” Biden's top adviser Steve Ricchetti said, according to the book. “We think our allies in the hills are wrong.”
Biden's aides have reported that he successfully concealed his health condition until he made headlines during the July debate. wall street journal Nearly 50 people were interviewed, many of whom had direct knowledge of the operation. White House aides still appear to be working to cover up the scandal by denying key aspects of it. journal'The report includes the extent to which Biden was isolated from the rest of the world except for a small number of senior aides and his family.
The interview is journal It has been revealed that Biden's aides were protecting the “failed'' president from Cabinet members, donors, pollsters and leading Democratic politicians who might have undermined their directives. Biden's aides have reportedly removed negative stories about the president from daily news clips, including negative polls about the 2024 presidential race.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former RNC war room analyst. He is the author of The Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell “×” @WendellHusebø or society of truth @WendellHusebo.
