They're really trying it, aren't they?
President Joe Biden and his Inner Circle Delusionists are hoping to brazen it retired and prop up this past-its-expiry-date presidency.
In nan process, they're proving themselves to beryllium everything they've ever leveled astatine Donald Trump: out-of-touch, a sore loser, anti-democracy.
Mad King Joe conscionable won't quit.
As he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos successful Friday's primetime interview, 'if nan Lord Almighty comes down and tells me' only past will he see stepping backmost from nan ticket. Maybe.
Snap polls pursuing nan CNN statement disaster successful nan New York Times and nan Wall Street Journal some show Trump pulling to a six-point nationalist lead.
Reports propose that Democratic party soul polling is moreover worse. One leaked study has Biden losing Virginia, New Mexico, and New Hampshire (he won each 3 comfortably successful 2020).
Meanwhile, statement officials are – privately astatine slightest – tearing themselves apart, pinch a handful of elder figures breaking rank and publically calling for Joe to go.
President Joe Biden and his Inner Circle Delusionists are hoping to brazen it retired and prop up this past-its-expiry-date presidency. In nan process, they're proving themselves to beryllium everything they've ever leveled astatine Donald Trump: out-of-touch, a sore loser, anti-democracy.
Big donors – Netflix's co-founder Reed Hastings and Disney heiress Abigail Disney among them – are slow raising nan alarm, on pinch big-beast lefties for illustration Stephen King.
As of writing, 9 House Democrats – each connected nan ballot successful November and worried astir their ain electoral prospects – person spoken out. That number will only grow.
While obscurity adjacent arsenic injurious arsenic nan CNN debate, nan Stephanopoulos question and reply has intelligibly grounded to move nan needle.
As 1 elder House Dem – not brave capable to beryllium named – told Reuters precocious Friday: 'I don't spot really he lasts nan week arsenic nan nominee.'
And yet Biden is digging in, seemingly comfortable to gaslight everyone – moreover his ain party.
As he told Stephanopoulos, he'd happily return nan broadside down pinch him.
Stephanopoulos: 'If you enactment successful and Trump is elected… really will you consciousness successful January?'
Biden: 'I'll consciousness arsenic agelong arsenic I gave it my each and I did nan goodest [sic] occupation arsenic I cognize I tin do, that's what this is about.'
Lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill connected Monday aft nan July 4 recess to find a missive successful their inboxes from nan man himself.
'I americium firmly committed to staying successful this race,' Biden reiterated successful a typically over-long screed, earlier dragging himself retired of furniture to rant and rave from nan bunker connected an incoherent phone-in pinch his pals connected MSNBC's 'Morning Joe'.
'I'm much than nan presumptive [nominee], I'm going to be the Democratic nominee,' he told a stunned Mika Brzezinski.
Hours later, reports emerged that an master connected Parkinson's illness visited nan White House 8 times betwixt past July and this March.
How do we cognize this? Because nan White House's ain publically released visitant log says so.
Yet, erstwhile asked many times astir it by reporters connected Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre flatly refused for 'security reasons' to 'share names of [medical] specialists'.
It was a peculiarly caller maneuver successful nan on-going Biden ill-health cover-up, since nan expert's sanction – Dr Kevin Cannard – is 'shared' intelligibly in nan White House's nationalist records.
Last week, KJP tried insisting that Biden's mediocre statement capacity was down to nan operation of a bad 'cold' and 12-day aged 'jetlag'.
Do these group return america for fools?
Mad King Joe conscionable won't quit. As he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos successful Friday's primetime interview, 'if nan Lord Almighty comes down and tells me' only past will he see stepping backmost from nan ticket. (Pictured: successful Atlanta pinch Trump astatine past month's CNN debate).
He is digging in, seemingly comfortable to gaslight everyone - moreover his ain party. (Pictured: pinch his wife, Jill).
Biden's Chief of Staff Jeff Zients surely does. He held an all-staff telephone past Wednesday successful which he took nary questions and fobbed disconnected worried employees, saying: 'Put your heads down… clasp your heads high.'
He whitethorn arsenic good person told them to brushwood up their resumes.
Last Monday, Biden called a little property convention supposedly to make comments connected nan Supreme Court's Trump immunity ruling that day, but really conscionable to beryllium that he could still publication disconnected nan teleprompter aft 8pm.
To make nan president look little cadaver-like, his constitution squad sent him retired looking moreover much orangish than Trump himself.
Old Joe, who conscionable weeks agone was lecturing america to mobility neither judge nor assemblage successful Trump's hush money case, shifted gears to knock nan 'Court's onslaught [on] nan norm of rule successful this nation'.
He said that nary 1 should beryllium 'a king supra nan law' and that location are now 'virtually nary limits connected what a president tin do'. Truer words.
In nan statement pinch Trump – who he calls a 'congenital liar' – Biden claimed nary American troops person been killed connected his watch.
The families of nan 13 work men and women who died during nan US's botched Afghanistan withdrawal request to disagree – and nan American nationalist person had enough.
We deserve, for instance, to cognize much astir Joe's shrinking circle of hangers-on – his crackhead felon boy and Vogue covergirl wife astatine their helm – who whitethorn aliases whitethorn not beryllium moving nan country. The 'impenetrable group of enablers', arsenic 1 insider described them to Politico, who support him 'isolated' for illustration a feeble monarch holed up successful his throne room.
The Mad King's media bag-handlers astatine nan New York Times and CNN person yet fixed up nan ghost, openly now accepting what nan remainder of america person known for months: Joe can't spell on.
Yet this management – backed by shameless bigwigs for illustration Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – cannot, will not springiness in, hoarsely screeching their connection to enactment successful statement down Biden. Even if that statement progressively resembles a ceremonial procession.