So Biden dropped out because he was losing?

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/21/biden-drop-out-how-it-happened/

So Biden dropped out because he was losing? 14 Million Votes thrown out the window? How many times did Joe & Jill Biden promise to stay in the race? How many times did Kamala and KJP say “Biden is going to be the nominee”?

They go this entire article without saying the word “debate” or reference any sort of cognitive decline. So, some random weekend in July of 2024, President Joe Biden got back poll numbers, and after over hearing the whispers from some advisors and Senators, dropped out of the race because everyone thought he was going to lose?

Republicans have been talking about Joe’s cognitive decline since 2019. I’ve felt like the Donors for the last 4+ years, “it’s like we didn’t have eyes and couldn’t see what was going on”.

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The map was expanding in the wrong direction. The party had turned. The money was drying up. The polls in must-win states had gone from bad to worse.

Everyone else plowed forward, swearing publicly that none of that was happening, telling those that worked for them to not stop. O’Malley Dillon had laid down that marker Friday, when she went on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and abruptly silenced the growing speculation that his exit was imminent.

“He’s not going anywhere,” she said.

Donors left frustrated because “it was like we didn’t have eyes and couldn’t see what was going on,” another person on the call said.

Yet it was read by many inside the Democratic political world less as a final word and more like an extension of respect that the president was owed. This decision was always Biden’s to make. From the earliest days of the crisis, people close to Biden would contact those who went public with their dismay.

He deserved “grace,” was their message. Give him his space.

A fundraising email for the Biden-Harris ticket was emailed out Sunday even after Biden had published his letter announcing his decision.

Biden made his decision feeling certain that he did not have a viable path forward. But he remained upset at Democratic lawmakers and party strategists who had begun to publicly come forward to push him out.

A member of Congress said that Biden is “deeply betrayed and upset” at all the people he thought were friends.

They were not, however, willing to bend to his will. Democrats in the Senate — where Biden served for 36 years — were being especially careful but had begun discussing whether to come out as a group or one after another, to arrange a number of senators to meet with Biden privately and urge him to exit or else warn that they would go public if he did not respond to their concerns, according to the people.

A number of his aides said on Sunday that they were upset about being kept in the dark, having been told Friday and Saturday to keep fighting for his candidacy.

But before his endorsement, many lawmakers had concerns over Harris’s ability to take on Trump — in part because of mixed internal polling data, according to two Democratic senators — and were interested in exploring the possibility of an open convention.

Others in Biden’s inner circle believe there is no option, no time to restart and restaff a campaign, which Harris will probably be able to inherit directly barring some legal challenges. One donor said there would be a push for an open process, and that Biden’s announcement of his endorsement of Harris had been a letdown.

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