Democrats urging President Joe Biden to end his campaign and allow the party to select another candidate before — or during — the August national convention are unlikely to find allies in the ranks of delegates heading to Chicago, who are increasingly rallying behind Biden.
Ten days after the president’s fiasco in the debate broadcast on CNN after an initial wave of Democratic anxiety and calls for him to resign, several party leaders and rank-and-file members selected to formally nominate Biden said they were reluctant to consider any other option.
Their concerns about the prospect of Biden dropping out are twofold. A number of committed delegates have warned that the process of replacing the president would do more damage than even the worst-case scenario with Biden at the top of the ticket.
Biden-aligned delegates have also expressed, often privately, a lack of confidence in the alternatives, arguing that the president remains a better bet than any of the names circulating on the gossip circuit.
For the most part, though, Biden’s most ardent delegates were singing the same tune.
Chris Anderson, the Tennessee delegate selection chair and a local government official, argued — as the Biden campaign did — that voters are not as interested in the president’s debate performance as the political media.
“The pundit class has a job to do, and I understand that, but they seem to think the debate was more important than the average person thinks because most of the average person was focused on the 90 minutes of lies spewed by Donald Trump,” Anderson said.
Source: CNN Brasil
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