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Why Joe Biden Won’t Leave
You wouldn’t either.
I didn’t watch the “debate” between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on June 27. I later saw some clips of Biden’s moments of confusion and incoherence. Now several Democrats and the media are speculating that Biden is too feeble, mentally and physically, to run for re-election. Some celebrity Democrats and office-holders are calling on Biden to voluntarily step aside. Others are “angry and stunned” by how Biden’s advisors have shielded him.
In 2020, we all knew or should have known that Biden would be in a mentally diminished state by 2024 because he already was. Despite the concerns, I don’t see him leaving the White House unless:
- There is a mutiny at the Democratic Convention and he loses the nomination in a process that ignores the will of the Democratic Primary voters. (How’s that for “Our Democracy?”)
- Section 4 of the 25th Amendment is invoked, Vice President Kamala Harris becomes Acting President, and Congress sustains the action.
- He loses the November election.
To expect Joe Biden to leave voluntarily reveals a naive view of human nature. To demand Jill Biden, his wife and closest advisor, to persuade him to step down, is immature. They’d have to be threatened with the 25th Amendment process, and even then…
