Massachusetts governor, a top Biden ally, urges him to ‘listen to the American people’
One of Joe Biden’s high-profile campaign surrogates is publicly urging him to consider exiting the presidential race.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a member of Biden’s national campaign advisory board who earlier this spring headlined a big-dollar fundraiser for him in Boston, said in a statement Friday that he should “carefully evaluate whether he remains our best hope to defeat Donald Trump.”
Biden “saved our democracy in 2020 and has done an outstanding job over the last four years,” Healey said in a statement released through her political arm Friday, breaking days of silence from the first-term governor of this deep-blue state that handed Biden one of his widest margins of victory in 2020.
“The best way forward right now is a decision for the President to make. Over the coming days, I urge him to listen to the American people and carefully evaluate whether he remains our best hope to defeat Donald Trump,” she continued. “Whatever President Biden decides, I am committed to doing everything in my power to defeat Donald Trump.” [Continue reading…]
Three separate polls conducted by CNN, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal after the debate all showed Biden trailing Trump by six points nationwide. Previous polls have shown Biden trailing in nearly all the battleground states he narrowly won in 2020. And now a handful of other states he won — Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Virginia — appear to be in play.
At this rate, Biden is likely headed for a landslide defeat to a lawless and unpopular former president.
But when Stephanopoulos confronted him with poll numbers showing him trailing and a job approval rating lower than any president who has ever won re-election, Biden would have none of it.
“I don’t … I don’t buy that. I don’t think anybody’s more qualified to be president or win this race than me,” he said.
Only “the Lord Almighty” could persuade him to give up the race, the president said, as a growing chorus of Democrats, fearful of an electoral disaster, call for him to step aside.
Denial. Delusion. Defiance. [Continue reading…]