Open Thread: President Joe Biden Ends His Bid for Reelection
President Joe Biden ends his 2024 reelection bid after weeks of pressure from Democrats to drop out, PBS News No doubt the moneyed influence played an important part in his leaving the race. Much of this has to do with future plans of addressing tax breaks. More on this part later.
I thank President Biden for his many years of service to our country.
I hope that he and the US Senate continue to move forward on the 48 current federal judiciary vacancies
Current Judicial Vacancies | United States Courts (uscourts.gov)
President Biden has done much more than any other US President in putting forth a federal judiciary that reflects our American diversity.
Jim:
Judges are a priority and Dems should not block Biden on this.
Is it the “falling behind in the polls”?
Or do they need to push 25thAmendment.
Or is he going disabled next year?
paddy:
Read what I said. Blaming age was just another way to get him out so he would not have influence on taxing income and capital gains. I million people have far greater influence than the rest of us.
I said nothing about age.
Biden is not competent today!
There’s only one incompetent old man in the race now; fat, incoherent and shits in his pants. You fat, incoherent and shit in your pants too?
My guess is Dems will do the politically correct thing and go with Harris. Unfortunately, Biden put her in charge of fixing the crisis at the border. Republicans/trump will trounce her on this issue. While I would fully support her, I am not 100% confident she will win the swing states and defeat trump.
Andy Beshear with Wes Moore would be the best choice for winning. Governor Beshear is a common sense person who easily won in Kentucky; a heavy red state that trump overwhelmingly won. Moore is a proven leader with military experience and his handling of the Key bridge disaster. He is also very enthusiastic and will help with black voter turnout.
Markg:
Minorities will put Dems over the top if Dems know how to rally them. Harris needs a strong VP like Biden
I hope you are right Bill. tRump killed the border bill and having Harris as the nominee is playing right into his playbook.
Markg
i don’t follow you logic. Trump killed a bipartisan bill. Harris just has to point that out. it won’t convince the maga hats, but it might convince honest people.
Biden delegated the border “crisis” to VP Harris!
There quite a few worthy candidates, some mentioned above, who can beat #45 and carry the House, the Senate … and the big donors. A presidential focus on judge appointment and confirmation is paramount.
Who is the “too old” candidate now?
Heh.
joel
it might be enough for the Dems to play tapes of Trump’s cognitive impairment. but saying “too old” now would be too cute by half.
nor that that has ever lost anyone an election.
Playing tapes of Trump’s cognitive impairment would be very dangerous. Too many of the suckers born every minute that Barnum identified would believe the bullshit and they can vote.
JackD
you are probably right. but i thought those people were already going to vote for trump come hell or high water.
It’s important to recognize what’s happened here. I recognize it because I’ve seen it before, and at this point think maybe we should call it “Kitzhabering” ~ Governor John Kitzhaber, the most popular Governor in the history of the State of Oregon, re-elected to an unprecedented fourth term only months prior to the Republicans cooking up some crazy ass bullshit that in the end proved out to be just that: bull shit, and the press and Oregon’s weasel democrats forced him out
We all knew, were supposed to have prepared for, going into that debate ~ he told us that’s what he will do ~ knowing he was going to gish-gallop it, a firehose of lies and whatall, suck all the air out of the room, flood the zone with shit to force Joe Biden to stumble, and when he did, within minutes trump camp was calling him unfit … dementia. Dementia! DEMENTIA! And the press, of course, the Mainstream Multi-Millionaire Media crotch-shots and cocktail party heroes ran with. As did the Centrists, DC Insiders, Corporate Democrats, Republicans Lite, doppelgangers and big-headed academics
It was a forced error, a foul; a calculated tactic, and it worked perfectly
We’ve actually all seen this, or at least those who’ve been paying attention: the same crowd that insisted loudest that Bernie couldn’t win, that he was to old
For all practical purposes, trump is as old as Biden; fat, shits his pants