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#POTUS #Biden statement cont:

“Americans know exactly where he wants to take this country. They know that he inflicted pain & cruelty on the women of America by overturning #RoeVWade. They know that he destroyed our #economy once & will inflict pain on the middle class, that he wants to gut the checks & balances of our #Constitution & rule as a #dictator on day one.

#POTUS #Biden cont:

"The stakes are high, and the choice is clear.
Together, we will win."

#BidenHarris2024 #democracy #ReproductiveRights #VotingRights #ClimateChange

Come a strong jobs report or a new stock-market record & #Trump would boast & brag & ballyhoo. Nothing positive went unadvertised by a president who understood mass #media better than the mass media understood themselves.

That has not been #Biden’s way. He has seldom succeeded in directing the nation’s attention where he wanted to go. Frequently, he did not try to do so. He worked far more than Trump, but somehow mattered less.

#BidenHarris2024 #democracy

And 38 mins in, he repeated the #lie that he used to incite the #Jan6, 2021, assault on the Capitol — that the 2020 #election had been stolen from him through cheating. Immediately after that, he made #liars out of staffers who had told reporters that he would never mention the name of the man who had defeated him, claiming #Biden, by name, was worse than the previous 10 worst presidents combined.

#Trump #RNC #BigLie #autocracy #democracy #BidenHarris2024

#News #Biden #USA
https://apnews.com/article/biden-older-elderly-voters-a6bcbdaf35c78a8aac04e8ad078456f2

Joe #Biden is still withholding all US humanitarian aid funding to #UNRWA while Palestinian #children starve. He is using hunger as a weapon to help #Israel, which is a #warcrime. Joe must go.

@1dalm @darnell@flipboard.com If #Democrats have an open (aka contested) convention, then #DonaldTrump becomes @potus (something #AllanLichtman has talked about in the past).

👉🏾 What Should Dems do if #Biden Steps Aside? (PLAN B) https://www.youtube.com/live/zKpZvm61G58

Hi! US Politics Knower here. Been immersed this longer than I care to recount, so I'm gonna do a thread on it, partly to explain this situation and partly for my own personal therapy, so feel free to mute this if you aren't into it. Gonna be a long thread. Here's what's happening with Biden and the Democrats and why it's both boring and extremely dangerous. 1/

#USPol #Biden #Democrats #Politics

In a normal year, one of two things happens:

#1: There are several candidates vying for the nomination. They are trying to win enough pledged delegates to win the nomination outright, so they are running in all the states to win Delegates.

#2: There is an incumbent President that nobody is running against, so this whole thing is a formality, the President will have it locked up very early. 3/

#USPol #Biden #Democrats

First you need to understand how US party primaries work. It's a little bit like the Electoral College: every state Democratic party has a number of delegates. Those delegates get 'pledged' to go to the DNC and vote for whomever won the primary election in their state. (There's some wiggle room here, but let's not overcomplicate it.) 2/

#USPol #Democrats #Biden

Imagine, say 1800. Joe Seattle won the West coast primaries but Sam Philadelphia won the East coast states, because there was no national media to tell the whole country who was running.

So you get to the convention with several people having *some* delegates, but nobody having a majority. How did this work? 6/

#USPol #Democrats #Biden

So what happens now? Well, this is not unprecedented. Back in the day before radio/TV/Internet, it was not uncommon to have what they call a 'brokered convention'. This was when nobody had a majority of delegates and the convention itself had to figure out a nominee. It was actually pretty common back in the day. 5/

#USPol #Democrats #Biden

This year, #2 was happening. Nobody was seriously challenging #Biden, so all the delegates from states that have already voted are pledged to him. Normally, you go to the convention, everybody votes for Biden, and you're off to the general.

But it's pretty obvious that is not gonna happen this time. Biden is being pressured to drop out even though he already has all the delegate votes. 4/

#USPol #Democrats

What happens is that any candidate can release their delegates and tell them to vote for someone else. So, Joe Seattle would release his delegates and say to vote for Sam Philadelphia in exchange for becoming Joe Vice President. And Dave Miami would do the same in exchange for being named Joe Secretary of State.

The delegates, now released, told who to vote for, vote again, and off we go. 7/

#USPol #Democrats #Biden

Where things start to go off the rails for us is that (1) this hasn't happened in forever and (2) in the 1800 case, there were several clear front-runners who all controlled *some* delegates, and were in a position to make a deal (this is the "brokered" in "brokered convention"). Party members would know who to vote for if their guy didn't make it over the finish line. 8/

#USPol #Democrats #Biden

Biden has all the delegates.
Team Dump Biden want him to step aside gracefully, and say "For the good of the Republic, I release all my delegates, and instruct them to instead nominate..."

...

...you see where this is going.

Normally you'd have the guy who got the 2nd most delegates and nominate him instead but, *there is no 2nd guy*. Nobody else has been running a campaign at all. 9/

#USPol #Democrats #Biden

Went and took a nap and had a wonderful dream that #Biden stepped down and the Dems nominated Katie Porter to run against #Trump. I was so happy and hopeful and actually thought we were saved..

Then I woke up and realized it was just a dream and feeling hopeful is too much to ask for in 2024. 😕

Anti-Biden Dems, this is what/who you’re aligning with. #biden #potus

Via ThHill, so…

“Well-connected Democratic Party insiders say they expect President #Biden to make a major announcement about his future soon after the Republican National Convention concludes in Milwaukee and that congressional leaders expect that Kamala #Harris will become their nominee for president if Biden drops his reelection bid.”

https://trib.al/1Qbanpd

⬆️ >> #Netanyahu is “buying time”

“I wish that he would be a statesman and do what is right for Israel. We all love #Israel,” former House Speaker Nancy #Pelosi said recently on CNN. “We need to help them and not have him stand in the way of that for such a long time.”

Tensions between Netanyahu and #Biden have been seeping into the public.

As of now, no meeting between the leaders during Netanyahu’s Washington visit has been scheduled.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-democrats-netanyahu-congress-address-boycott-war-54d4abfb517e399b22324d4c535427aa