High-level Democrats, including the Obama and Clinton camps, have formed a committee aimed at ousting Joe Biden from the Democrat ticket, according to reports.
Axios reported Saturday that a coalition of “anti-Biden Democrats” are aggressively “commissioning polls, lobbying former presidents, back-channeling Democratic leaders, organizing donors and taking the fight to Biden in a very public way.”
The “Committee to Unelect the President” is comprised of the biggest movers and shakers of the Democrat Party machine.
It includes former Obama aides, former Clinton advisers, rank-and-file Congressional Democrats and swing-state Democrats, top donors led by actor George Clooney and Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, late night liberal talk show hosts like Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, New York Times columnists, and even some Biden aides.
From Axios:
They’re the unofficial Committee to Unelect the President. The mission: Push Biden out of the presidential race — the sooner, the better.
This loose anti-Biden network is growing by the day — and is circulating polls showing Democrats would shoot from sure losers to big winners with a new ticket. Some donors are talking of a massive financial commitment to any non-Biden presidential ticket.
These Democrats see the race in stark, black-and-white terms: Just three states matter — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. That’s the Blue Wall, all of which Biden won in 2020.
And they see an obvious solution: Forget the niceties of backing Biden or even Vice President Harris. Be ruthless about finding the two people most likely to win those three states.
The anti-Biden Democrats are trading texts, emails and polling, fighting fellow Democrats on TV and X, and circulating stories and arguments by sympathetic journalists and columnists, including Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias.
Many are in conversation with lawmakers to push their leaders to squeeze Biden and his inner circle. They know Biden and his family seem unmovable — so they hope for the use of overwhelming force by the Obamas + Clintons + Schumer + Jeffries + Pelosi.
Democrat strategist James Carville said former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are sending a veiled message to the Biden campaign to bow out.
“Silence is a very loud form of speech,” Carville said. “No one is saying ‘come hell or high water.’”
Another former official of Bill Clinton’s White House told Axios, “The Clinton diaspora is freaking the hell out.”
“But all these people going on the record aren’t helping. All it seems to have done is cause the Bidens to dig in deeper.”
Remarkably, the New York Times on Saturday accused Republicans of pushing a “conspiracy theory” that Democrats are secretly working to remove Biden from the Democrat ticket.
The NYT *this morning* accused the right of pushing a “conspiracy theory” that Dems are secretly plotting to replace Biden at the top of the ticket…
Meanwhile, Axios is reporting *this morning* how Dems are secretly plotting to replace Biden at the top of the ticket.
Unreal. pic.twitter.com/MPhKFHtvtS
— Joseph A. Wulfsohn (@JosephWulfsohn) July 12, 2024
“The idea that Democrats would plot to replace Mr. Biden has meshed with views perpetuated by former President Donald J. Trump about the Democratic Party, that its members are not just politically wrong, but remarkably conniving,” the Times reported.
“That conspiracy theory has also gained traction with help from another baseless belief, shared among many Trump supporters, that Mr. Biden is merely a puppet of Democratic elites or a shadowy political body referred to as the Deep State.”
The Times once again has egg on its face, thanks to Axios.