President Joe Biden is stepping down as the presumptive Democratic nominee after blocking challenges in the Democratic primary and effectively disenfranchising voters across the Democratic base.
The effort began in December 2022, when Biden wrote to the Democratic National Committee calling for changes to the nomination process, including rearranging the primary election schedule.
“Early states should reflect the overall diversity of the party and the country — economically, geographically and demographically. This means more diverse states earlier in the process, which means a more diverse overall mix of early states,” Biden wrote in a letter to the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
The DNC took steps the next day to grant Biden’s request, first breaking with the tradition of the Iowa caucuses being first and making South Carolina the first state to vote in the Democratic nomination process.
Importantly, South Carolina saved Biden’s hopeless 2020 campaign after his terrible showing in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
he placed #4 in Iowa Arrival He came in fifth in New Hampshire and second in the Nevada caucuses, but he was far behind. lost He defeated Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) by 26 percentage points.
As Sanders made inroads in South Carolina, then-House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (R-SC) endorsed Biden. help He won 48.6 percent of the vote, revitalizing the campaign.
Pushing South Carolina to the forefront in 2024 recognize By setting New Hampshire’s primary before other states because of a New Hampshire law, breaking with the Democratic National Committee’s novel schedule, the committee essentially gave Biden a better path to the nomination than he had in 2020, with South Carolina, Biden’s campaign’s savior, taking place first.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent presidential candidate who ran in the Democratic primary but then dropped out, accused the Democratic National Committee of running a “rigged” primary system during an appearance on SiriusXM. Breitbart News Sunday “It’s the month he launches his campaign in April 2023. In an interview, he pointed to the calendar change and the lack of debate.”
“The DNC has taken the public position at this point that there will not be a debate, and I think that’s unfortunate… I also think what the DNC has done with New Hampshire is unfortunate,” RFK Jr. told Breitbart News senior editor Joel Pollack.
“The cost of campaigning is very low. We have the largest independent bloc in the country. And people are [don’t] “They look at the candidates over and over again and don’t make up their mind until they’ve shook hands with the candidates five times before they decide who they’re going to vote for,” Kennedy Jr. said of the Granite State.
“They vet candidates across the country. They vet them just like they would if they were running for city council,” he added.
Kennedy chose to run as an independent in October, months before the South Carolina primary.
“We declare our independence from the cynical elites who betray our hopes and widen our divisions. And finally, we declare our independence from the two political parties,” he said.
With Kennedy viewed as a pariah by the mainstream media, his party and his own family, and Biden facing only two opponents – little-known Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) and self-help guru Marianne Williamson – the 81-year-old president was well on his way to winning the nomination.
Concerns about Biden’s mental health and age were recorded among Democrats and independents as early as May 2023. A Harvard-Harris Poll that month found: Indicated About a quarter of Democrats have doubts about Biden’s mental health, as do 65% of independents and 83% of Republicans.
Moreover, a third of Democrats said Trump “has shown he’s too old to be president,” along with more than nine in 10 Republicans and seven in 10 independents who agreed. The poll also asked whether they supported Trump and Biden becoming their respective parties’ hypothetical nominees, and 67% of Democrats said “America needs another option.”
But Biden never faced any serious challenger, and by the time he appeared in the fateful June 27 debate that ruined his career and tarnished his legacy, he had won every contest and received 14 million votes.
Now that states have spent a lot of money running these races, and the vast majority of voters in the Democratic primary chose Biden, except for those who voted silently in protest of Israel’s handling of the war with Hamas and those who supported Phillips and Williamson, the Democrats have successfully waged a pressure campaign to remove Biden from the top race, which has jeopardized the lower-ranked races.
Instead of millions of voters deciding on a candidate in a primary election, about 4,600 delegates will decide the nominee at next month’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, effectively disenfranchising people who voted for Biden, those who voted for other candidates and those who did not vote because there was no candidate capable of challenging the president.
“They’re all exhausted now because they’re looking for some way to get rid of the Democratic nominee for president while saying we were a threat to democracy,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) told Breitbart News at the Republican National Convention last week.
“So isn’t that the big deal? Who is the real threat to democracy here?” he added. Gimenez has now called on Biden to resign.
“If Joe Biden is not capable of seeking reelection, then he is also not capable of continuing to serve as President,” he said in an email.
Vice President Kamala Harris has garnered the endorsements of Biden and Clinton, but notably none from former President Barack Obama. Said He supports an open process in the competition.
“We will be navigating uncharted territory ahead, but I have extraordinary confidence that the leadership of our party can create a process that will produce outstanding nominees,” Obama wrote on Sunday.
Kennedy Jr. believes the election process in Chicago will be rigged[ged] I endorse Harris as a candidate.
“Many Americans fear that the same DNC elites are once again trying to rig the nomination process in order to install a deeply unpopular Vice President to replace President Biden,” he said in a post on X, before saying Biden’s “weaknesses have been obvious to any unbiased observer from the start.”
I applaud President Biden for stepping down from office. His weaknesses have been obvious to any unbiased observer from the beginning. This ongoing weakening and abandonment of Democratic principles is exactly why I entered the campaign to ensure that American voters…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (@RobertKennedyJr) July 21, 2024
“I call on Democrats to return to their traditional commitment to democracy and demonstrate it through an open process,” he added.
Williamson also supports an open process.
I want to express my gratitude and respect to President Biden. He must have made an extremely difficult decision, but he did what was best for his party and his country. He clearly shares, at heart, the same goals as millions of Americans…
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) July 21, 2024
