Democrats can still jettison Biden as an ‘August Surprise’

At some point, none of this makes sense.

“This” President Joe Biden will officially become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee at the party’s convention in August. The number of Democrats who are honestly excited about that state of affairs won’t satisfy the Mini Coopers.

A growing number of Democrats see Biden as a political version of “Groundhog Day.” They go to sleep every night dreaming of a new candidate, and every morning they wake up to the same old Biden. The president is now seen by many as a gaffe-prone figure who needs to be told where to stand, where to walk, and what to say.

As The Hill reported in a headline earlier this week, “Biden’s weakness becomes a growing concern for Democrats.” It is certainly so.

Because, as the article emphasizes, it’s not just about winning the presidency now. “Democrats are increasingly concerned that President Biden’s numbers in swing states could hurt their nominees in the Senate.”

What is being presented to the public as “concerns” and “concerns” is being treated as “blind panic” by Democrats with whom I speak regularly.As Jonathan Chait, center left. Recently framed In New York Magazine: “The point here is that Democrats have a Joe Biden problem, not a party-wide problem.” Nightmare might be a more accurate description.

As for how Biden is hurting Democrats’ chances of holding the Senate in November, one Democratic strategist told The Hill: . Polls show he is not doing well with some key voting groups: young voters, black voters and Hispanic voters. ”

bingo.

But that’s not the only really worrying news for Democrats. Mr. Biden is on the verge of losing big in the three-way political battle, and everyone in the field, Democrat or Republican, knows it.

He has lost, or is losing, the trust of many in the Democratic political class, who fear he will be out of the game forever. He and the Democratic Party are being swayed by the rising Robert F. Kennedy Jr., winning state after state on the ballot each week. The newest is Texas, home of Kennedy. just came in A staggering 245,572 signatures were needed to gain access to the ballot in the Lone Star State, twice the number needed.

If you extrapolate that number based on basic statistics, it’s easy to imagine that Kennedy could win more than 10 times that number of voters in Texas. Given the all-out attack on Kennedy by voters, especially the Democratic National Committee and President Biden, many Democrats believe RFK will flow away from Biden.

And the last in the three-front battle is former President Donald Trump. His rally in New Jersey last week was stunningly impressive, and anyone who claims otherwise is either delusional or has fallen so far into it that Biden and the Democratic Party can no longer see the light of day. Tens of thousands of people gathered to shout support for the former president and his policies, but there is no doubt that many were dissatisfied with Democrats.

A growing number of people – myself included – believe that all the partisan “legislation” and deep state attacks the Democrats are orchestrating against Trump are only increasing Trump’s voter base. A growing number of people see this tactic as an un-American way for Biden and the White House to keep key political opponents away from the vote. And while many believe this strategy is boosting Trump’s poll numbers, President Biden stopped short after noticing that Trump was ahead in poll numbers in both 2016 and 2020. is a frightening belief for the Democratic National Committee.

Against that backdrop, what’s a president who is considered cognitively impaired by tens of millions of Americans to do? Apparently… disgusting video They challenged Trump to two debates, with all sorts of conditions attached.

This week, Biden released a 13-second video with five jump cuts, in which he told children to “get off my lawn” rather than as the president of the United States, even though he was reading from a teleprompter. I had a strong impression of an old man screaming. state. Read Biden’s writing, which seems to be channeling Clint Eastwood.

“Donald Trump lost to me twice in debates in 2020. He hasn’t appeared in a debate since. Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again. Let’s have fun today, friends.”

Be careful what you are told to wish for.

Again, every Democrat I talk to wants someone other than Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris as their nominee in November. They include California Governor Gavin Newsom, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

The Biden White House, the DNC, and Democratic-backed media may scream “The cake is baked, and Biden is the nominee,” but if Democrats choose to use it, the August convention There is still a very viable escape hatch. An escape hatch that would allow Biden to switch to Newsom or another candidate.

I believe it remains a viable option until the hatch is welded shut. It’s the option that countless Democratic voters across the country want.

This option will go down as one of the most shocking August surprises in modern political history.

Political and communications consultant Douglas McKinnon served as a writer in the White Houses of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and served as special assistant for policy and communications at the Pentagon during the last three years of the Bush administration. served as