Joe's Health And The Metastasizing Crisis
Last night, as I sometimes do, I woke up with a start and asked a question that had been developing in my mind all the prior day: why were Obama and Pelosi so anxious to replace Joe with Kamala, who at best is no better a presidential candidate than Joe, and is potentially worse? MSDNC: Kamala doesn't fare any better against President Trump than Crooked Joe did — and Democrats' hope to the contrary is "based more on hope than it is on numbers right now." Brutal! pic.twitter.com/EBZftusTAv — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 22, 2024 The received versions of how Joe came to withdraw from the race differ. Yesterday I cited a CNN version that has Joe meeting with key advisers who simply told him he no longer had a path to 270 electoral votes. A competing version outlines a sense of increasing urgency from Democrat leaders in the weeks following the June 27 debate: Pelosi, a Dem California rep and former House Speaker, had tried a different tactic befo...