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To: marcher who wrote (206471)	7/3/2024 11:30:43 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 219475

He said he was falling asleep. The guilty parties said he had a cold. Reality is setting in hopefully. "speedball' combo 3? Acts as he is already on it.. Orwellian behavior as you pointed out. ============================= Cracks showing in Democratic support as Biden says he ‘nearly fell asleep on stage’ Key ally of president says he knows upcoming appearance have to be successful to stay in race Robert Tait in Washington and agency Wed 3 Jul 2024 09.30 EDT Share Cracks in support among Democratic leaders for Joe Biden’s campaign continued to widen on Wednesday ahead of his evening meeting with Democratic governors, as Barack Obama reportedly expressed concerns about Biden’s path to re-election and Biden himself said he knew the next few days were critical to persuading the public he is up for the job. Biden will be talking with state governors and Capitol Hill leaders all week, officials indicated on Tuesday, in attempts to reassure them of his competence after last week’s calamitous debate performance against Donald Trump. The White House said Biden will also sit for an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Friday, to be aired over the weekend. The New York Times also quoted a key Biden ally that he remained fully committed to re-election but that he knew his upcoming appearances would have to successful. “He knows if he has two more events like that, we’re in a different place,” the source told the Times. Who could replace Joe Biden? Here are six possibilities. All but one elected national Democratic figure has continued to back Biden in public since the debate but, behind the scenes, senior figures are reportedly scrambling to plot a way forward for the troubled campaign. At a Virginia campaign event on Tuesday evening, the US president blamed his weak debate on his international trips leading up to the event, saying: “I wasn’t very smart. I decided to travel around the world a couple times, going through around 100 time zones … before … the debate. Didn’t listen to my staff and came back and nearly fell asleep on stage. That’s no excuse but it is an explanation.” Obama, who was president on a ticket with Biden as vice-president, has shared in private with Democratic allies who sought his counsel that Biden was already on a tough road to re-election and that road was now more rocky after the debate, the Washington Post reported late on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the former president’s remarks. Obama talked with Biden by phone after the debate and the the president’s re-election campaign spoke of Obama’s “unwavering support”, while the former president’s team declined to comment. A post-debate survey commissioned by Puck news showed that 40% of voters who backed Biden in 2020 now believe he should withdraw. It also showed him now under threat from Trump in states previously considered safe by Democrats, including Virginia, New Mexico and New Hampshire. James Carville calls on Democratic party to ‘deliver change’ and replace Biden Read more A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday also found that one in three Democrats said Biden should end his re-election campaign after the debate in Atlanta where he gave a low-energy, garbled performance. The former first lady Michelle Obama, who has never held elected office, also led Trump 50% to 39% in a hypothetical match-up put to those responding to pollsters, Reuters reported. As of Tuesday evening, a House Democratic aide said, there are 25 Democratic members of the House of Representatives preparing to call for Biden to step aside. Biden’s campaign, however, has continued to downplay concerns, noting that the president had raised $38m since last week. On Tuesday Lloyd Doggett, a congressman from Texas, became the first Democrat in the House of Representatives to publicly urge the president to step aside. Doggett said he had hoped the debate “would give some momentum” to the president’s stagnant poll ratings in key battleground states. “It did not,” he said. “Instead of reassuring voters, the president failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments and expose Trump’s many lies.” Several prominent Democrats who previously served in the House or Senate have already spoken out, calling on Biden to step aside, and some key supporters including the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn, a representative from South Carolina, have hinted at ambivalence. “I think it’s a legitimate question to say, is this an episode or is this a condition? When people ask that question, it’s completely legitimate – of both candidates,” Pelosi told MSNBC, adding that she had heard “mixed” views on whether Biden was fit for the presidential campaign.