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BigTigerMike · 07-12-2024 06:40 PM

President Biden beat back the initial public campaign by Democrats to oust him from the party's presidential ticket, swiftly and decisively. But very-connected Democrats, mostly veterans of the Obama and Clinton administrations, are plotting hourly to get him to withdraw quickly.

They're commissioning polls, lobbying former presidents, back-channeling Democratic leaders, organizing donors and taking the fight to Biden in a very public way.

They're the unofficial Committee to Unelect the President. The mission: Push Biden out of the presidential race — the sooner, the better.

How it works: The anti-Biden Democrats are trading texts, emails and polling, fighting fellow Democrats on TV and X, and circulating stories and arguments by sympathetic journalists and columnists, including Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias.

Many are in conversation with lawmakers to push their leaders to squeeze Biden and his inner circle. They know Biden and his family seem unmovable — so they hope for the use of overwhelming force by the Obamas + Clintons + Schumer + Jeffries + Pelosi.

Members of this notional committee tell us there's no hidden hand — no command and control. Instead, these are all people who've worked together on past campaigns.

No one is more than one person away from everyone else," a central player told us. And almost all are one step away from former presidents Obama or Clinton.

BigTigerMike · 07-12-2024 06:43 PM

dEmOcRaCY……

No Bull · 07-12-2024 06:57 PM

Progressives are ruthless.

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