US Allies of VP Harris are making calls to assess political environment “just in case,” source says - Optimism all around

From CNN's John King
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Allies of Vice President Kamala Harris are making calls to assess the political environment “just in case,” according to a Democrat close to her, who emphasized that at the present moment, “there is no ‘in case’.”

This Democrat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the calls from Harris allies include quiet conversations with Democratic convention delegates.

This source said the Harris calls are being made with the full knowledge of President Joe Biden’s inner circle and that her allies are making clear from the start of every conversation that she expects the president to stay in the race.

“He is dug in,” the Democrat said. “He is not going anywhere this weekend.”

This and several other Democrats described increasing tensions within the party over what is seen as maneuvering by competing interests.

Reached for comment, Biden-Harris campaign spokesperson Brian Fallon told CNN:

“No one actually connected to the Vice President is making such calls.”

 

[Coccxys]

The bookies currently have Trump as heavy favourite. But put Kamala above Biden to win.



Plus a whole load of ridiculous long shots that are basically handing them money and saying bye to it.

 

[TowinKarz]

Nobody with realistic chances of winning are going to step in for Joe.

They don't want to inherit a dysfunctional admin where they'd be out the loop of decision making and expected to just continue being the talking head of a committee of indeterminate makeup that's clearly making all the calls if they win.

Nor a black spot on their record if they lose in a Mondale-esque landslide.

A Newsome or Whitmer is perfectly content to wait until 2028 and run with a clean slate.

If they're good enough to be the emergency back-up goalie? Then they're good enough to be the starter.

 

[Harvey Danger]

Allies? How does this completely unlikable retard have allies?

 

[Coccxys]

A Newsome or Whitmer is perfectly content to wait until 2028 and run with a clean slate.

Exactly, no matter who wins there'll be no incumbent fighting in 2028 se it'll be wide open.

 

[Twinkletard]

This is just beautiful. The democrat party has truly committed one of the most amazing political fuck ups of all time, solely due to their hubris.

Every republican knew biden was unfit for any of this shit, and to spite us they kept him in. They are the architects of their own downfall. Poetic really.

the inmates are running the asylum.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

The 25th Amendment is in their back pocket as a nuclear option, but that will be incredibly messy. Not good for party unity and enthusiasm as heavy underdogs going into an election in less than 4 months. They need to get Joe to agree to it.

Identity politics and the realities of the situation between Joe and their nuclear option dictates that it has to be Kamala, but I don't think they quite realize just how unlikable she actually is or how little people have supported her in the past. She makes Hillary seem genuine. Trying to put in Michelle Obama or Democrat Governor X last second and passing up Kamala will cause too much infighting and upset voters to consider.

No matter the path, the presidency is lost for them at this point. They're trying to stop the bleeding in the House and Senate at this point so Joe doesn't absolutely kill them down ballot.

Will anyone truly care if Kamala is passed over for someone who is normal looking liken Newsom (and his all white Aryan Chad family) compared to JD Vance having Pajeet kids.

The only person I can think of who will be outraged is Drew Barrymore cause she won’t have her Momala

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

The bookies currently have Trump as heavy favourite. But put Kamala above Biden to win.

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Plus a whole load of ridiculous long shots that are basically handing them money and saying bye to it.

Jokes on you, I'm gonna put my life savings down on Pocahontas and buy a used car.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

I think this is the point where the phrase "shit or get off the pot" applies. You've got less than four months until the election.

 

[Schwarzwald]

Will anyone truly care if Kamala is passed over for someone who is normal looking liken Newsom (and his all white Aryan Chad family) compared to JD Vance having Pajeet kids.

The only person I can think of who will be outraged is Drew Barrymore cause she won’t have her Momala

Yes, they're called black women, statistically the safest Democrat voters. The Democrats in 2024 are absolutely not going to pass over a black woman for a white dude, even if he matches up better in a vacuum.

They've put themselves in a corner with identity politics. For a lot of reasons, it has to be Kamala. The only other option would be Michelle Obama, but even that comes with its own host of complications and issues.

 

[TowinKarz]

The 25th Amendment is in their back pocket as a nuclear option,

They'll never use that because of one thing - Arrogance.

They can't stand the idea that pulling the trigger on it means "their" guy will go down in the history books as the FIRST and ONLY Chief Executive who ever got so old and stale he had to be removed for failing the base competency test of not being a potato. (after they spent 4 years telling us we were CRAZY to think that was the case)

They'd rather he go down as having backed a Chief Executive who resigned.

They are putting the pressure on right now to get him to resign for unstated "health" reasons because, while the optics on a willful resignation stink (He'll be sharing a plot in history with Richard Nixon!) it's not as putrid as how humiliating and embarrassing it would be to walk him to the Presidential limo and then metaphorically drive him to the home and dump him on the curb.

 

[BoobWhiskers]

Being a coastal elite like Patrick Bateman 2.0 AKA Gavin Newsome, or an obvious social Pharisee like Kamala or Hilary, or even Biden only makes you look like touching the hands of the common folks would elicit the immediate desire to Purell your hands. Do you see Kamala going out to talk to country yokels? Do you see them visit shitholes in Illinois or Ohio? Do you see them talking to local charities or events?
Not because that involves interacting with the serfs. And the serfs are only there to vote and nothing else. Go back in your hovel, worm.

Reminds me of that classic Hillary Clinton 'damn bitch you live like this' picture when she visited some working class home.

 

[Vaclav]

They'll never use that because of one thing - Arrogance.

It's not just arrogance, it would have horrific consequences for them. Removing him via the 25th would require many Dems to give a vote of no confidence against their own party leader. Every Democrat for the next 10 years could be beaten over the head with "Why did you run Biden when you knew he was too old?" It would break the authority of the party establishment and create an opening for far-left Squad-type factions to run amok trying to seize control for themselves and steer the national party in a direction that would alienate anyone outside of a Portland coffee shop.

 

[ArnoldPalmer]

"Just in case"? In case of what, the thing you thought was going to happen that is most likely to happen? Come on, now.

Also, who is actually unironically banking on Gretchen Whitmer running for Pres? Literally what has she even done in her time as Governer, apart from being a tremendous tax burden, Branch Covidian and general waste of time? She has torn up BRAND NEW blacktop tarmac from last September, just to repave it, in several counties across her state, and has the unmitigated gall to say they ran out of the money set aside to repair roads that actually need it. That's her "fixing the damn roads". President material, lemme tell ya.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

Allies? How does this completely unlikable retard have allies?

She has "allies" in that it's people who share enemies with her and haven't publicly stabbed her yet. I'm sure most of it are people trying to set her up to take this career-ending L all while they are comfortably distant from it.

Will anyone truly care if Kamala is passed over for someone who is normal looking liken Newsom (and his all white Aryan Chad family) compared to JD Vance having Pajeet kids.

The only person I can think of who will be outraged is Drew Barrymore cause she won’t have her Momala

There's been black representatives and activists who've made it clear over the last few weeks that they'll see the party burn if Kamala gets passed over. Not that it isn't already but with Trump making serious headway in gaining the black vote, the Democrats aren't in a position to fight that war.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

She has "allies" in that it's people who share enemies with her and haven't publicly stabbed her yet. I'm sure most of it are people trying to set her up to take this career-ending L all while they are comfortably distant from it.

There's been black representatives and activists who've made it clear over the last few weeks that they'll see the party burn if Kamala gets passed over. Not that it isn't already but with Trump making serious headway in gaining the black vote, the Democrats aren't in a position to fight that war.

Don’t the Niggers realize that Kamala is actually a Pajeet?

Also pretty sure most Black men hate Kamala for locking up their own. It’s only the shitlib Mullato Women Diversity hire types that like Kamala

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Don’t the Niggers realize that Kamala is actually a Pajeet?

They've been told she's black, therefore she's black.

 

[Ghost of Biden]

Who is Queen Kamala going to pick as her footstool VP?

 

[Absolutego]

Who is Queen Kamala going to pick as her footstool VP?

Clearly our very competent Transport Secretary who hasn't had failures in literally every aspect of his department in 3.5 years, Pete Buttplug.

 

[Ghost of Biden]

Clearly our very competent Transport Secretary who hasn't had failures in literally every aspect of his department in 3.5 years, Pete Buttplug.

Do you think she’d let such a virulent homosexual next to her totally straight not gay husband First Gentleman? She’ll have to keep them both separated in dog cages within the Oval Office.

 

[Absolutego]

Do you think she’d let such a virulent homosexual next to her totally straight not gay husband First Gentleman? She’ll have to keep them both separated in dog cages within the Oval Office.

Maybe she'll copy from Congressional Democrats and stick the two of them in a hearing room in the Capitol somewhere for the illicit buttsex.