President Biden and his team are finalizing plans for him to meet personally with Democratic governors on Wednesday, a move that comes after several days when Biden has kept a low profile as aides sought to tamp down Democratic angst over the president’s halting debate performance last week.
The meeting with governors could signal a move by the White House to step up Biden’s personal involvement in trying to assure party leaders that he is capable of continuing with his reelection campaign.
The meeting, which is intended to focus on the state of Biden’s campaign, comes as the Democratic Party is in something of a crisis. Longtime concerns about Biden’s age, stamina and mental acuity were crystallized by a debate performance in which the president sometimes struggled to complete sentences.
Biden’s senior aides since then have been furiously calling top Democratic leaders and donors, but Biden as of Tuesday morning had not spoken with such top party figures as Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). This relative silence has added to Democrats’ anxiety at a time when many have been looking for reassurance from the president.
On Monday, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, who chairs the Democratic Governors Association, held a call with other Democratic governors to discuss Biden’s reelection campaign. Several participants expressed frustration that they had not heard personally from the president, according to a person familiar with the call, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a private meeting.
It was those complaints that spurred the plans for Biden to meet with the Democratic governors.
The party’s governors have been put in a sensitive position by the outcry following Biden’s debate performance. Many of them are among the president’s strongest backers and have been called on to reemphasize their support for his candidacy. But some of the governors are also rising stars who have been suggested by Democratic donors and activists as potential replacements for Biden should he bow out of the race.
Following the debate on Thursday night, Biden held a rally in Raleigh, N.C., and hosted several fundraisers before returning to the presidential retreat at Camp David to spend two days with his family.
Biden returned to the White House on Monday night, speaking before a bank of television cameras to deliver prepared remarks on a Supreme Court decision declaring that Donald Trump was immune from prosecution for his official actions when he was president.
Overall, the president’s schedule for the week has been light. He arrived early Tuesday afternoon for an operational briefing on extreme weather and had plans later for a fundraiser in McLean, Va.
(c) Washington Post
That meeting needs to be scheduled for 9pm, outside of his “window”, and he should not have a teleprompter or cheat sheets. They need to query him to respond to challenging questions with total spontaneity. Now let’s see him perform.
This mass denial needs to stop. He needs to step aside, and please, please, do not even suggest that Kamala remain in any political position. She is mean, completely immoral, and has less intellect than a rock.
Meeting “personally” with the democratic governor could only mean 1 thing: The governor was dealt with too and they’re both meeting at the same region – 6′ below.
Why is this report different than any fiction stories?
Because the country has been destroyed over the past few years, and given how good President Trump was for the country until he was removed from office, it’s highly unlikely that he (would secretly be president now or whatever other nonsense you believe, and that he) would allow the country to be destroyed and have all his policies reversed. That doesn’t seem very rational.
Is it more rational that one with dementia, a cookoorikoo, is president? Does it make sense to you???
The truth is, President Trump IS the Commander In Chief and head of military and the military is controlling the country but running it as though a democrat would’ve been president. In the meantime, until he officially returns to office, they installed a yachtzel to keep the calm. A democrat bedavke for obvious reasons.
As I’ve been saying for years, Joe is a natural born leader. A man among men.