Joe, It is time to call it a day!
Asking the country to trust Joe Biden is no longer a credible option. He should release the delegates and run in an open convention writes Graeme Wood in The Atlantic
Does Joe Biden really understand the stakes? All the polling shows Trump leading by an ever growing margin. Donald Trump and his campaign is all but praying Joe Biden doesn’t drop out. Maybe someone else can’t win but clearly Biden is unlikely to win.
In a 10-minute TV appearance on “Morning Joe” at 7:40 a.m., Nancy Pelosi — who has a decades-long relationship with the president and still commands the deep respect of her colleagues — left her mark on the biggest political crisis facing the Democratic Party in years.
“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We’re all encouraging him to make that decision, because time is running short,” Pelosi said. “He is beloved, he is respected, and people want him to make that decision.”
In those few sentences on a program Biden is known to watch, Pelosi didn’t directly call for Biden to step aside. But she did significantly reframe a delicate but urgent conversation taking place among Capitol Hill lawmakers, Democratic donors, party strategists and voters after Biden’s faltering debate performance two weeks ago raised questions about whether he can beat Donald Trump and serve another term as president.
Now is the time for Biden to resign not as a defeated candidate but as a powerful president who knows when father time has said it is time to end your political life.
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