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The fallout from President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance continues, with the far-left Occupy Democrats lashing out at the far-left New York Times.
Occupy Democrats posted on Instagram, “Maybe it’s time that the New York Times step aside for a younger, fitter, more coherent newspaper.”
Ouch.
So what’s going on here…
Well, it all started with this editorial…
“To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race” read a post-debate editorial from an obviously panicked New York Times:
Mr. Biden has said that he is the candidate with the best chance of taking on this threat of tyranny and defeating it. His argument rests largely on the fact that he beat Mr. Trump in 2020. That is no longer a sufficient rationale for why Mr. Biden should be the Democratic nominee this year.
The president appeared on Thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant. He struggled to explain what he would accomplish in a second term. He struggled to respond to Mr. Trump’s provocations. He struggled to hold Mr. Trump accountable for his lies, his failures and his chilling plans. More than once, he struggled to make it to the end of a sentence.
That was published the morning after the debate, which means it was a panicked editorial written in the hours after the debate — it might have even been written during the debate.
Well, a lot has changed in the ten or so days since. To begin with, and most importantly, Biden is refusing to step aside, and that’s the whole ballgame. Biden won the primary. Period. Biden is the sitting president. Period. Biden holds the super delegates. If he doesn’t want to step down, no one can make him. He has already won the nomination. The convention is pure ceremony.
Biden signaled just how intractable he is with a letter to Congress on Monday morning. To circumvent reports that House and Senate Democrats were planning to organize some kind of rebellious intervention to force him out, Biden dropped this bomb on them:
I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump. I have heard the concerns that people have—their good faith fears and worries about what is at stake in this election. I am not blind to them. I can respond to all this by saying clearly and unequivocally: I wouldn’t be running again if I did not absolutely believe I was the best person to beat Donald Trump in 2024.
Then came the kill shot: “The voters – and the voters alone – decide the nominee of the Democratic Party. How can we stand for democracy in our nation if we ignore it in our own party? I cannot do that.