{"id":132002,"date":"2024-06-28T09:15:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T06:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/democrats-consider-the-unthinkable-its-time-for-biden-to-go\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T09:15:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T06:15:38","slug":"democrats-consider-the-unthinkable-its-time-for-biden-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/democrats-consider-the-unthinkable-its-time-for-biden-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats consider the unthinkable: It\u2019s time for Biden to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132002\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Three strategists close to three potential Democratic presidential candidates and granted anonymity to speak freely said they had been bombarded with text messages throughout the debate. One adviser said they received pleas for their candidate to step forward as an alternative to Biden. Another adviser said they had \u201ctaken no less than half a dozen key donors texting \u2018disaster\u2019 and [the] party needs to do something,\u201d but acknowledged that \u201cnot much is possible unless\u201d Biden steps aside.<\/p>\n<p>One major Democratic donor and Biden supporter, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was time for the president to end his campaign. This person described Biden\u2019s night as \u201cthe worst performance in history\u201d and said Biden was so \u201cbad that no one will pay attention to Trump\u2019s lies.\u201d \u201cBiden needs to drop out. No question about it,\u201d the donor said in a text message, proposing an alternate ticket led by the governors of Maryland and Michigan. Biden stumbles, rambles at first presidential debate beside Trump<\/p>\n<p>At least two prominent potential 2028 contenders \u2014 Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and California Gov. Gavin Newsom \u2014 said they stood by Biden even after his performance. Newsom, when pressed on MSNBC if Biden should step down, said that talk is \u201cunhelpful\u201d and &#8216;unnecessary&#8217;. \u201cYou don\u2019t turn your back because of one performance,\u201d Newsom said. \u201cWhat kind of party does that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden struggled throughout much of the debate, the first 2024 general election matchup between the president and former President Donald Trump. The 81-year-old president has long faced questions about his fitness for office, and the debate \u2014 the earliest general election matchup of its kind in modern political history \u2014 had been a gambit by the Biden campaign to reset the narrative around the race.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, Democrats had hoped a strong performance by Biden in the debate could ease concerns about his age. Instead, it did the opposite. \u201cNo Labels and Dean Phillips won this debate,\u201d said a former senior Biden White House official, referring to the outsider efforts to push a different candidate, not named Trump or Biden, into the race.<\/p>\n<p>The pleas from within the party, while unlikely to actually result in a change atop the ticket, reflect a major turn in the campaign. Incumbent presidents have traditionally underperformed during their first debates \u2014 inundated by the demands of the job and often unable to dedicate serious time to preparation. But Thursday\u2019s debate was unique in that it affirmed an existing preconception of Biden among many voters as a candidate past his sell-by debate.<\/p>\n<p>One adviser to major Democratic Party donors said they were texting from a meeting of donors in Atlanta on Thursday night, some writing &#8216;wtf&#8217;. \u201cOur only hope is that he bows out, we have a brokered convention, or dies,\u201d the donor adviser said. \u201cOtherwise we are fucking dead.\u201d Nonetheless, the likelihood of a brokered convention or Biden stepping aside are unlikely, a reality that even those who privately complained about Biden\u2019s performance acknowledged. \u201cOnly one guy can decide, and it\u2019s him,\u201d said one Democratic strategist granted anonymity to speak freely.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/06\/27\/biden-democrats-replacement-00165672\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/06\/27\/biden-democrats-replacement-00165672\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/democrats-consider-the-unthinkable-its-time-for-biden-to-go\/\">Democrats consider the unthinkable: It\u2019s time for Biden to go<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[800,3873,574,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-132002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-biden","tag-trump","tag-us","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}