US Presidential Elections: Biden Cornered by 35 Dems, Obama and Pelosi

John

By John

The anger of Joe Biden against the orchestrated campaign for remove him from the race for the White House grows with each passing hour. Relegated to his beach house in Delaware and abandoned by his allies, the president is increasingly bitter towards those he once considered friends and companions in his political life. Aware that the leak is nothing more than a coordinated action to increase pressure for him to withdraw, Biden is most irritated by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi.

The president in fact considers the former speaker of the House the great instigator of the campaign underway against him and sees his former boss as the puppeteer behind the scenes. A rage that has been simmering for years and that has now exploded: Obama, Pelosi and Senate leader Chuck Schumer were the ones who advised him not to run in 2016 and preferred Hillary Clinton instead.. They – it is the idea that has haunted him for years, according to some sources – are the ones who handed the country over to Donald Trump. “They were wrong in 2016 and they are wrong now,” he repeats with his closest collaborators, with whom he notes the deafening silence of Obama’s last days. The entire Biden family is frustrated, however, which sees as a betrayal what the Democratic Party is doing to the president, on whom the pressure for a withdrawal is becoming unsustainable. The defections increase day by day: More than 35 Democratic members of Congress have publicly called for Biden to step downwhile protesters continue to gather in front of the White House demanding his withdrawal. The president, however, is holding out and is looking to Georgia and Texas as the next stops on his campaign trail next week, once Covid has passed.

Kamala Harris continues to defend him and tries to reassure increasingly worried Democratic donors. The vice president finds herself in perhaps the most difficult position, that of showing – as she is doing – absolute loyalty to her boss, but at the same time preparing for the possibility of taking over from him. Harris is the favorite to take over from Biden if he decides to step down, even if some in the party led by Pelosi are pushing for a mini-primary. While the debate continues, time is running out for Biden and the Democrats. According to rumors, if the president does not decide to step down by the weekend, the pressure will increase further from Monday with a large number of representatives and senators ready to ask for his withdrawal. Biden, on the other hand, does not intend to move at least until next Wednesday, that is, until the end of the visit to the United States of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arriving on Monday, to whom he does not want to give satisfaction given their tense relations on Gaza. The Democratic tensions are contrasted by the calm of the Republican Party, which gave a great demonstration of unity at the convention that crowned Donald Trump and his vice president JD Vance, expected at their first public outing together in Michigan, one of the key states for the conquest of the White House. Vance himself has entered forcefully into the Biden case, riding the thesis that Republicans have been floating around for days. “All those who ask Joe Biden not to run without asking him to resign from the presidency are engaged in an absurd level of cynicism. If you can’t run, you can’t even serve” the presidency, he wrote on X asking that Biden leave the White House. Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign is sharpening its weapons against Harris, ready to launch unprecedented attacks. The former president’s staff in fact believes Kamala Harris is a much greater risk to victory than Biden, despite the significant boost Trump received in the polls after the attempted assassination, which crowned him – according to his base – as a martyr pardoned by that God ready to take him to the White House.