President Biden had spent a miserable weekend at his house in Rehoboth Beach in his home state of Delaware, 100 miles from the White House, self-isolating with Covid, as the world passes him by.
President Biden had spent a miserable weekend at his house in Rehoboth Beach in his home state of Delaware , 100 miles from the White House, self-isolating with Covid, coughing and hacking as the world passed him by.
He could hardly do otherwise. He'd picked Harris as his VP to show that, though he may be old and ailing, he'd chosen a younger woman who was fit to be President should he die in office. So how could he possibly not endorse her now? His wife was one of the last to concede he had to stand down. She liked being First Lady. His disgraced son, Hunter, facing jail time, had his own reasons for wanting to keep his father in office. He'd recently become part of Joe's inner circle and even flew from California to Las Vegas to stiffen his father's spine.
It began to dawn on Biden, if not his wife or son, that with Democratic aristocracy like Obama and Pelosi against him, plus the powerbrokers on Capitol Hill, his days were numbered. Sunday morning brought two more ominous developments. Biden stepping back ends one dispute dividing the Democrats but could open another, perhaps equally divisive: should Harris, constitutionally Biden's heir apparent, inherit the Democratic nomination uncontested?
Biden's endorsement of his VP is designed to avert a bloodbath in the Windy City. He hopes it will dissuade presidential hopefuls such as governors Gavin Newsom , Josh Shapiro and Gretchen Whitmer from throwing their hats into the Democratic ring, turning Chicago into a coronation for Harris rather than a contest.
American news networks, which lean overwhelmingly Democratic, were awash all weekend with Harris boosters even before Biden withdrew, many new to the cause, extolling her alleged virtues — and describing the calumny that would befall those who think otherwise.
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