The House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said he shared lawmakers’ “insight, heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path forward” in a private meeting with Joe Biden yesterday.
The meeting came after more than a dozen House Democrats publicly called on the president to end his bid for re-election after his stumbling performance against Donald Trump in their first debate.
Jeffries had promised that he would talk to Biden after speaking with all of the 213 Democrats in the House of Representatives, and, in a letter to lawmakers today, he indicated that he has done so, without elaborating on Biden’s response.
Deep-pocketed Democratic donors are putting multimillion-dollar pledges on hold and saying they won’t hand over the money until Joe Biden abandons his re-election campaign, the New York Times reports.
Others are holding off on giving any more money to Future Forward, the largest Super Pac supporting the president’s campaign.
That is exactly how mental decline works when you’re older. You have very fast dips in ability. Regardless, he has lost the confidence of his party.
That’s sometimes how it works.
Mental decline can be anywhere from slow to rapid, or even not at all. Rapid decline is not the only way old age works.
There are folks in their 90s that are sharp as a tack. There are folks in their 60s and 70s with wild, teenager-like mood swings.
Saying rapid mental decline is how old age works is, at best, disingenuous.
So we can expect to see him get much worse in the next few weeks right? And if he doesn’t, what does that say about his dementia?
I’m not convinced it’s dementia (yet anyway). But the fact remains that no matter what it is, it’s affecting him in a huge way and people see it.
The problem is that he’s the only one who can change the current situation and he seems hell bent on standing firm instead of facing the music.