{"id":626124,"date":"2024-06-30T05:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T02:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/biden-turns-to-family-on-his-path-forward-after-his-disastrous-debate\/"},"modified":"2024-06-30T05:33:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T02:33:02","slug":"biden-turns-to-family-on-his-path-forward-after-his-disastrous-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/biden-turns-to-family-on-his-path-forward-after-his-disastrous-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden turns to family on his path forward after his disastrous debate"},"content":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON \u2014 President Joe Biden is expected to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with family at Camp David on Sunday, following a nationally televised debate<\/a> Thursday that left many fellow Democrats worried<\/a> about his ability to beat former President Donald Trump in November, according to five people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s trip<\/a> was planned before Thursday\u2019s debate. He and first lady Jill Biden are scheduled to join their children and grandchildren there late Saturday.<\/p>\n

So far, the party\u2019s top leaders have offered public support for Biden, including in tweets posted by former presidents Barack Obama<\/a> and Bill Clinton<\/a>. Senior congressional Democrats<\/a>, including Reps. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Nancy Pelosi of California, have privately expressed concerns about his viability, said two sources app<\/a>rised of those discussions, even as they all publicly back the president.<\/p>\n

One Democratic House member who believes Biden should drop out of the race \u2014 but has yet to call for that publicly \u2014 told NBC News<\/a> that three colleagues expressed the same sentiment to him during votes on the House floor Friday.<\/p>\n

House leaders have not wavered publicly, and their aides denied that they are expressing doubts behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaker Pelosi has full confidence in President Biden and looks forward to attending his inauguration on January 20, 2025,\u201d Ian Krager, a spokesman for the former House speaker said. \u201cAny suggestion that she has engaged in a different course of action is simply not true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christie Stephenson, a spokeswoman for Jeffries, the House minority leader, said her boss has \u201crepeatedly made clear publicly and privately that he supports President Joe Biden and the Democratic ticket from top to bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brianna Frias said that Clyburn, who is traveling to Wisconsin this weekend to campaign for the president, “has total confidence in President Joe Biden and the Biden-Harris ticket.<\/p>\n

“Any reports alleging that the Congressman has expressed anything other than firm support of President Biden are completely untrue,” Frias said.<\/p>\n

At the same time, there is an understanding among top Democrats that Biden should be given space to determine next steps. They believe only the president, in consultation with his family, can decide whether to move forward or to end his campaign early \u2014 and that he won\u2019t respond well to being pushed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision-makers are two people \u2014 it\u2019s the president and his wife,\u201d one of the sources familiar with the discussions said, adding: \u201cAnyone who doesn\u2019t understand how deeply personal and familial this decision will be isn\u2019t knowledgeable about the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

This account of a president and his party in crisis just a little more than four months before an election they say will determine the fate of democracy is drawn from interviews with more than a dozen Democratic officials, operatives, aides and donors. All of them spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to describe matters as sensitive as whether a sitting president might give up his re-election bid and how he could be replaced on the ballot.<\/p>\n

Despite delivering a rousing speech<\/a> at a rally in North Carolina on Friday that calmed some of his allies, Biden was described by one person familiar with his mood as humiliated, devoid of confidence and painfully aware that the physical images of him at the debate \u2014 eyes staring into the distance, mouth agape \u2014 will live beyond his presidency, along with a performance that at times was meandering, incoherent and difficult to hear.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a mess,\u201d this person said.<\/p>\n

Another person familiar with the dynamics said Biden will ultimately listen to only one adviser.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only person who has ultimate influence with him is the first lady,\u201d this person said. \u201cIf she decides there should be a change of course, there will be a change of course.\u201d<\/p>\n

After publication of this report, a source familiar reached out to stress that the Camp David gathering was not a formal family meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny discussion about the campaign is expected to be informal or an afterthought,\u201d the source said. \u201cNo one is sitting down for a formal or determinative discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anita Dunn, one of Biden\u2019s handful of closest advisers, said on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Weekend\u201d Saturday that Biden has not discussed dropping out of the race with aides and that internal talks have focused on moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a bad debate,\u201d Dunn said. \u201cWhat do we do next? You know, the president, above all, is focused on what do we do next? What do I need to go do?\u201d<\/p>\n

These private discussions among Biden, his family members and his top advisers are being held against the backdrop of a reckoning for Democrats who were shocked both by Biden\u2019s appearance and the frequency with which his train of thought appeared to veer off track.<\/p>\n

His campaign held a conference call Saturday with members of the Democratic National Committee, which a Biden campaign official described as an effort to reassure party officials and demonstrate that his team is communicating with its allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re driving this,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s top aides and advisers have told his staff to stay the course in meetings and discussions. Their message, according to one senior administration official: \u201cWe\u2019ll weather the storm, just like we always have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sources have described three buckets of Democrats: those who will defend Biden under any circumstances, those who are ready to dump him, and those who are waiting to see what he does \u2014 and what his poll numbers look like in the coming days and weeks \u2014 before passing judgment. It\u2019s the third bucket that Democratic insiders are monitoring closely.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats need to take a big breath and look at that polling, look at swing voters,\u201d said one state Democratic Party chair. \u201cUntil I see something differently, he\u2019s the person that\u2019s put this coalition together, he\u2019s the person that has the record, he\u2019s the person that beat Donald Trump. Until I see something differently, he\u2019s still the best person to beat Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Biden campaign declined to comment for this piece, instead pointing to a memo Saturday from campaign chair Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon that made the case that Biden can still win, pointing to the more than $27 million they raised between debate day and Friday evening.<\/p>\n

Notably, however, O\u2019Malley Dillon nodded to the possibility that there might be some tough polling ahead \u2014 but said the blame will rest with the media<\/a>: \u201cIf we do see changes in polling in the coming weeks, it will not be the first time that overblown media narratives have driven temporary dips in the polls.\u201d<\/p>\n

The discussions among some Democrats include weighing what the party\u2019s best path to defeating Trump might be \u2014 sticking with an 81-year-old incumbent who could have another moment like Thursday night at any time between now and Election Day, or going with a different candidate whose path to nomination at the party\u2019s convention next month could be a messy process.<\/p>\n

Biden insisted Friday<\/a> that he will remain the party\u2019s standard-bearer in November, telling a crowd at his rally in North Carolina: \u201cI would not be running again if I didn\u2019t believe with all my heart and soul I can do this job.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president has spent much of the past 48 hours attending fundraising events with some of the very Democrats most concerned about the impact of his debate performance.<\/p>\n

He addressed it head-on at one event Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand the concern about the debate \u2014 I get it,\u201d he added. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a great night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Party elites will urge him to exit the race only if they determine that he is \u201cnot viable and negatively impacting the House and Senate races,\u201d said one big-time donor who is close to both Obama and Biden.<\/p>\n

Inherent in the wait-and-see approach is an acknowledgment that there is no clear replacement for Biden and that his departure could touch off a bloody eleventh-hour intraparty battle that might allow Trump to cruise to victory.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also no feasible way<\/a> to force him from his perch. All but a handful of the delegates to the Democratic convention were elected on their pledge to nominate him at the party\u2019s convention in August. If he chooses to stand for that nomination, party insiders say, he will get it.<\/p>\n

Moreover, according to a senior Democratic official, the party leadership would have much more control over choosing a replacement if Biden were to drop out after receiving the nomination than if he did so beforehand. Once a candidate is officially nominated, there is a process for the Democratic National Committee members to choose a successor. Biden is the dominant force at the DNC, and his preference for a successor would surely carry sway.<\/p>\n

If Biden were to exit before that, his delegates might do what he asked of them \u2014 but they wouldn\u2019t be bound in the same way they are now. In that scenario, the delegates could nominate anyone, and there could be a political brawl at the convention.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to have as much discipline as emotion,\u201d the senior Democratic official said. \u201cIt\u2019s not politically smart for Biden to step down.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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