It’s only Wednesday, and it’s been a rough week for the Biden campaign.
How long will this go on? This is not sustainable.
So far:
Nine House Democrats and one Democratic Senator have publicly called on President Biden to drop out of the presidential race;
Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker emerita, said this morning ‘The President needs to decide what to do’ and avoided expressing explicit support for him;
George Stephanopoulos (news anchor that interviewed Biden after the debate) appeared to say to a passer-by on a New York City street that he does not think Biden can serve four more years (per a video clip from TMZ);
Actor and filmmaker and Democratic fundraiser George Clooney calls for Biden to drop out, in a very direct and brutally honest op-ed for the New York Times.
Clooney writes in the op-ed: ‘But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate’.
Biden with the laser eyes is called Dark Biden. Biden’s team has embraced “Dark Brandon,” reappropriating a right-wing conspiracy meme* that depicted the president as a menacing force and used a nickname, “Brandon,” that become an in-joke among conservatives for insulting him.
*meme \MEEM\ noun. an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media.
