Biden’s candidacy on the brink of abyss

Just two weeks ago, President Joe Biden assured that he would only resign through divine intervention. God has not yet appeared, but almost the entire Democratic Party establishment has publicly or privately called on him to step down. Former President Barack Obama is no longer hiding from expressing his doubts about Biden among party members and old-timers Speaker House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has told members of Congress that she believes she can “soon” convince the president to resign from leading the vote. This Saturday, Senator Elizabeth Warren declared on MSNBC that Vice President Kamala Harris “is ready” and Congressman Mark Takano said Biden should hand over the reins to her because “there is too much at stake to fail,” according to the AP.

About 1,500 kilometers from Milwaukee, where Trump was being supported by his party’s bases and leadership on Thursday night, Biden is isolated by Covid at his beach house in Delaware. The president’s isolation is not only of a health-related nature. Various North American media published on Thursday that Biden is expected to announce his resignation this weekend. But the president’s campaign team has already announced that Biden will resume his agenda next week. However, it seems that this is the only one who insists that the Democrat will remain in the electoral race.

According to NBC News, even Biden’s family has begun discussing an “exit” plan. Since late June, the president’s inner circle has played a key role in Biden’s fight, with critical voices demanding his resignation. The Democrat’s “bad night” at the CNN debate against Trump was spent hours away at Camp David, surrounded by his loved ones, who reassure that the president was still in the “fight of his political life.” His wife, Jill Biden, has been one of the figures who has encouraged him to stay in the race during this time.

His people are now considering what Biden’s resignation should look like to ensure that it is “worthy of his service to the country for more than five decades” showing the extent to which the president’s candidacy is deadly. With information on a possible resignation this weekend, the White House has also denied that this family plan is “happening.”

Ever since Trump put pressure on Biden by lying to the entire country, he has been in a constant state of decline. During these last three weeks, the president has done everything possible to minimize the impact: giving television interviews, increasing campaign events, writing letters to his congressmen calling for unity, meeting with governors, being more energetic during key moments like the NATO summit. But nothing has worked, with each public appearance of Biden, a new congressman was added to the list of legislators who have asked him to resign, or someone like George Clooney came out to ask him to step down. Even donors have taken action and the party’s largest super PAC, Future Forward, has announced that it is withholding $90 billion in donations as long as Biden remains the candidate.

Viewed from the perspective of the criticism he has received for his statements and the gaffes he has committed at crucial moments (such as when he presented Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the Russian Vladimir Putin), the strategy of filling the president’s agenda with events reads differently: expose Biden as many times as necessary until the president reaches the same conclusion as the rest of the party’s critics. After Biden’s mistakes on NATO, the newspaper the new York Times published how members of his own team were already demanding the president relinquish the nomination. When Biden referred to Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump,” the faces of Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and National Security Adviser, Jack Sullivan, spoke more about Biden’s future than the president’s own performance at the time.

Six days after the NATO press conference alone, and four days after the attack against Trump in Butler (which has given the Republican campaign another boost), Biden no longer pointed to divine intervention to leave the race: “(I would resign) if a doctor told me I had this or that problem,” Biden said in a television interview. The candidate fearfully opened the door to withdrawing. The next day he tested positive for Covid.