If Biden had decided to keep running, I can almost guarantee you that enough of the party would have rallied behind him that he’d get the official nod next month. He absolutely could have continued stroking his ego at the expense of the country. Eventually, however, enough people talked him out of it and made him see that he was probably not going to win, and he needed to step aside for the good of the country. Regardless of whether he did so willingly, or kicking and screaming, he made the right choice at the cost of his ego. It seems like a really small thing, but you’ve got to remember that presidents are, as a rule, huge egomaniacs. You kind of have to be to get into that position in the first place. To an egomaniac, putting anything above their own desires is a big deal.
It’s not a particularly flattering picture of him, but he will absolutely be remembered for putting America first.
Yeah, all them big tough lefties really showed him. Twisted his arm and kicked him out to put in their preferred candidate.
Actually the big tough lefties wanted him to stay in. It was the money people and the party bosses that browbeat him until he agreed to drop out.
From what I’ve seen there where an awful lot of people in here (many who now promptly switched to anti-Kamela mode) claiming he didn’t do this that or the other progressive wishlist item so I’m gonna take my ball and go home.
Granted a lot of ideals didn’t happen but when you don’t have the house and the Senate is a 50/50 split (and not even reliably that) good luck getting much of that done. A fair chunk of what he has done was via exec order and plenty often challenged even then.
This is a shit take on a nuanced situation.
He could have told every single one of them to suck it, the President is the leader of the party. He saw the sentiment, weighed the situation, and dropped out with grace, leaving his ego out of it. Something a red hatted buffoon wouldn’t understand.
He had to act like he was in it 100% until the decision was made. Think about it, what’s he supposed to do? say ‘yeah I might drop out, thinkin about it’? It’s not some kind of narrative shift.
