President Joe Biden’s reelection effort has been embroiled in a political storm following his widely panned debate performance, with some on the political right calling for his removal from office under the 25th Amendment and some on the political left calling for him to drop out of the presidential race, but Biden, who is seen as the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, remains adamant. Declared He will remain in the contest.
The day after the debate, Republican Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Clay Higgins of Louisiana introduced a resolution calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to declare Biden unable to serve as president. 25th Amendment.
“I think the right thing to do here is actually the politically correct thing to do.”
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Solution The House of Representatives declares that it is calling on Harris to “immediately exercise her authority under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to convene and mobilize the principal officials of the Executive Department of the Cabinet to declare that President Joseph R. Biden is unable to discharge the duties and powers of his office” and to “transmit notice to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives that Ms. Harris will immediately assume the duties and powers of the office as Acting President.”
Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, is already 81 and will be 86 by the end of his second term.
Roy suggested to Blaze News that the vice president, first lady and others, and possibly many members of the cabinet, are “part of a conspiracy to hide the president’s mental state” from the American people.
The Conservative congressman told The Blaze News he thinks “the right thing to do here is actually what’s politically correct.” He believes you should do the right thing and “let the politics follow,” but in this case, “the two are aligned.”
Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah
Tweeted“What the Constitution requires doesn’t always coincide with what is politically expedient and what national security demands, but in this case they do. @ChipRoyTX is right. We should call on VP Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment.”
Roy even floated the idea of impeaching Biden.
post As for X, he said, “There are certainly strong grounds to impeach Joe Biden for lying to the American people about his abilities (and perhaps we should consider that as well).”
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postThe senator suggested the vice president “could be impeached for lying to America and covering up,” and said, “The @HouseGOP should subpoena @KamalaHarris, Jill Biden and key White House staff to find out when they learned @JoeBiden has dementia.”
Daniel Horowitz of Blaze Media told Blaze News that Republicans should defund the government until Biden is no longer in power.
“We need to have a discussion about how the entire Democratic Party has lied to the American people for four years, and the CHIP resolution makes that point. I would also add that Republicans would be wise to join the budget fight on this point and make it clear all summer that they will not fund the budget until Biden leaves office,” Horowitz said, adding, “We cannot fund a government run by a man who holds the nuclear football code and cannot walk, think or talk.”
Keith Marinak of BlazeTV’s “Pat Gray Unleashed” agrees that the 25th Amendment should be used.
“Joe Biden is a case study in when Cabinet members should pursue removal of a president under the 25th Amendment. It is baffling that there should even be any doubt,” Marinak told Blaze News in a statement.
“I appreciate Rep. Chip Roy speaking out about this, but I doubt the vice president will stay the course until she has assurance that party leadership and those at the helm of the current administration would support her if that were to happen,” he added.
“I expect him to make the tough and difficult decision to withdraw.”
Some on the left have suggested the president should give up on running for reelection.
“I expect him to make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw, and I respectfully urge him to do so,” Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, said in a statement.
“If he was the nominee, I would support him, but I think this is an opportunity to look at other candidates,” said Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona.
The New York Times“What he needs to do is take responsibility for keeping that seat, and part of that responsibility is to withdraw from this election.”
Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts was quoted as saying Biden should “step back so new leaders can rise up and take on Donald Trump.”
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Democratic Congressman Mike Quigley of Illinois
was suggested “To prevent total catastrophe,” Biden said, “I should step down and let someone else take over.”
Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Angie Craig said:
statement“Given what I saw and heard at the debate in Atlanta last week, and the President’s own lack of a strong response after that debate, I am not convinced the President can effectively campaign and defeat Donald Trump.”
“I respectfully ask President Biden to step down as the Democratic candidate for a second term as president to allow a new generation of leaders to move forward,” Craig declared.
But not all Democrats are unhappy with Biden’s candidacy.
Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania continues to strongly support the president’s reelection effort.
“I am not going to dismiss a great president, an honorable man and a loving father who served in public office for 50 years over a 90-minute debate. Responding with confusion, panic and disloyalty is not appropriate for this moment,” the senator said.
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Some Democratic donors are calling on Biden to back down.
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The New York Times Abigail Disney was quoted as saying that the presidential campaign and the committees supporting it, including the Democratic National Committee, super PACs and nonprofits, “are not going to take a cent from me until they step up and take Biden’s place as the top candidate.”
“Unfortunately, Biden is in denial about his own mental health. He needs to stand down and allow strong Democratic leadership to defeat Trump,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said.
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The editorial board of the media piece “To serve our country, President Biden should withdraw from the election,” the post read.
But Biden has said he will continue to campaign.
“Let them accept the consequences of their actions.”
Blaze TV host Sara Gonzalez He said he believes conservatives would benefit politically if Biden continues to campaign.
“The best way to ensure a conservative victory in the November election is for Joe Biden to continue running. Additionally, Democrats who are expressing false concerns about Biden’s cognitive ability knew exactly how badly Biden had gotten when they called us ‘conspiracy theorists’ and accused us of spreading deepfakes and ‘cheapfakes’ showing Biden’s decline a few weeks ago. Let them face the consequences of their actions. They claimed Joe was on their side. There is nothing we can do to prevent that,” she said in a statement to Blaze News.
However, the host of BlazeTV Steve Dees I believe Biden should be immediately removed from his duties.
“There is no way that someone who can’t pass a business fitness test, qualify to be a foster parent, or even get a driver’s license could have the codes to a nuclear weapon. Period,” Deese wrote in the opinion piece. “While this is certainly an unacceptable reality, it is our patriotic duty to remove Joe Biden from office immediately, because fundamentally this is about more than one incompetent person. It’s about who we are as a free people, and may be about our very survival.”
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