by Fred Lucas
Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, is calling President Joe Biden withdraw from the 2024 presidential race.
Doggett is the first elected Democrat to call on Biden to drop out of the race after most Democratic leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former President Barack Obama, publicly endorsed Biden after what many Democrats and even liberal pundits have admitted was impoverished performance in the debate Thursday.
🚨 Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett is calling on Biden to WITHDRAW from the 2024 election. “The stakes are too high to risk a Trump victory,” he says. “President Biden saved our democracy by delivering us from Trump in 2020. He can’t deliver us to Trump in 2024.”
Full text of his statement: photo:twitter.com/DTS0SolCnl
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 2, 2024
Survey after presidential debate show Biden’s Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, gaining an increasing advantage.
“My decision to make these strong objections public was not made lightly, nor does it in any way diminish my respect for all that President Biden has accomplished,” Doggett said in a public statement. “Recognizing that, unlike Trump, President Biden’s first commitment has always been to our country, not to himself, I hope he makes the painful and difficult decision to withdraw. I respectfully urge him to do so.”
Biden reportedly not called Congressional Democrats because this debate was considered disastrous.
Doggett drew a historical comparison to President Lyndon B. Johnson, who withdrew from the presidential race in March 1968 amid deep unpopularity.
“I represent the heart of the congressional district that Lyndon Johnson once represented. Under very different circumstances, he made the heartbreaking decision to withdraw,” Doggett said in a statement. “President Biden should do the same.”
The president and his family seem determined to stay in the running. First lady Jill Biden Vogue said “they will not let these 90 minutes define his four years in office. We will continue to fight.”
Doggett’s statement came the same day as news of a conference call hosted by Minnesota’s Democratic governor. Tim WaltzDemocratic Governors Association Chairman, CNN’s Jake Tapper reportedGovernors did not have a specific message but expressed willingness to hear from Biden.
A recent CNN poll showed Trump leading Biden 49% to 43%, with most polls conducted before the debate showing Trump ahead of Biden by a percentage point or two.
📊 SURVEY AFTER THE DEBATE: @CNN
🟥 Trump: 49% (+6)
🟦Biden: 43%
🟪 Other: 4%
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🟥 Trump: 41% (+6)
🟦Biden: 35%
🟨 RFK Junior: 14%
🟩 Stein: 3%
🟨 West: 2%
🟪Oliver: 1%
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🟥 Trump: 48% (+5)
🟦 New: 43%
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🟥 Trump: 47% (+2)
🟦Harris: 45%
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🟥 Trump: 47% (+4)
🟦 Buttigieg: 43%
—… photo: twitter.com/uRivq7YBco— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) July 2, 2024
According to a Morning Consult survey, 60% Democrats he thought he should be replaced on the list. A separate YouGov poll showed that 72% of voters They say Biden lacks the mental and cognitive health to serve as president.
Biden won every state Democratic presidential primary this year by a landslide. victory over Rep. Dean PhillipsD-Minn. But the nomination isn’t formal until delegates to the Democratic National Convention vote to nominate the presidential and vice presidential candidate. Delegates are scheduled to vote in a virtual roll-call vote a week before they meet in Chicago for the formal convention.
However, Biden’s replacement for another candidate could face legal hurdles. The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project noted last month that a national party can nominate a candidate, but a set of state laws dictate what a political party must do to replace someone else as its presidential candidate.
The Biden family reportedly we met on Sundayand has shown determination to stay in the race in 2024. Biden held Rally in North Carolina the day after the debate and admitted, “I don’t walk as easily as I used to, I don’t talk as smoothly as I used to, I don’t argue as well as I used to,” but added, “But I know how to tell the truth. I know what’s right and what’s wrong. And I know how to do the job, I know how to get things done.”
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Fred Lucas is the chief news correspondent and head of the Investigative Reporting Project at The Daily Signal. He is the author of “The myth of suffrage suppression: the left’s attack on fair elections.”
Photo “Joe Biden” by President Joe Biden.
