cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17363474

“This is very obviously a letter to voters, not to Congress,” said one reporter. “It reads like a campaign speech.”

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    Yeah we’ll see how this plays over the next 24-48 hours. There is a legit power struggle going on, right now, for the future of the DNC.

    For Biden to pull out of this tail spin he’s set up, he needs to do a shit ton of interviews, events, live audience interviews, maybe town halls to show the voters he’s not the person they saw in the debate or in last Fridays interview. Letters aren’t convincing because they can’t address the core issue, and right now, Biden is facing a wall of criticism from core DNC insiders.

    If Biden can get on TV, stage, etc and do the job of convincing people he’s walking the walk, thats it. He’s done what he needs to do to stay the nominee. If he can’t do that, there is no amount of digging his heals in that changes things.

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      If Biden refuses to step down, there isn’t a lot for the DNC to do. Biden has the nomination locked up with pledged delegates. And I seriously doubt we are going to see a mass defection at the convention. So, short of him waking up dead one of these mornings (always a possibility for an 81 year old man), we’re riding the Biden ship all the way down.

      Who knows, maybe Trump will do us all a favor and have a massive coronary in the next few months. Goodness knows his eating habits aren’t the best. But, my money is on the Biden-Trump rematch no one wanted.

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      For Biden to pull out of this tail spin he’s set up, he needs to do a shit ton of interviews, events, live audience interviews, maybe town halls to show the voters he’s not the person they saw in the debate or in last Fridays interview. Letters aren’t convincing because they can’t address the core issue, and right now, Biden is facing a wall of criticism from core DNC insiders.

      Alternatively, he can do none of those things, and he will still get the nomination. What do you think he will pick?

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        Alternatively, he can do none of those things, and he will still get the nomination. What do you think he will pick?

        I think we see Biden withdraw before the end of the week, maybe two weeks. He’s a stubborn asshole, but its gone. He can’t win. Its not just that we’ll lose the White house, we’ll lose the house and the senate. And no, if (as is happening in real time since Friday) other Democrat lawmakers have rejected Biden, there is a 0 percent chance he stays as the nominee. Biden is not in control of his own fate in this regard.

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    Believe me, I know better than anyone the responsibility and the burden the nominee of our party carries," wrote Biden, whose win four years ago provoked some actions for which Trump now faces state and federal charges. “I carried it in 2020 when the fate of our nation was at stake.”

    “We had a Democratic nomination process and the voters have spoken clearly and decisively,” he continued. “I received over 14 million votes, 87% of the votes cast across the entire nominating process. I have nearly 3,900 delegates, making me the presumptive nominee of our party by a wide margin.”

    I honestly don’t know if he’s gaslighting people or so far gone he believes this shit…

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      I honestly don’t know if he’s gaslighting people or so far gone he believes this shit…

      The thing about effective gaslighting, is that it to do it right, you have to gaslight yourself first. I mean look at almost all of mainstream media has gone about the coverage on this for the past year. There has been a significant but minority cohort asking for this issue to be addressed whose views have been entirely suppressed/ ignored by mainstream news. But here we are. The entire public has been gaslit on Biden for over a year, but to do so effectively, mainstream media had to gaslight themselves first.