Democrats are getting more and more worried about President Joe Biden as he trails in the polls, seems to be losing cognitive function, and his son, Hunter Biden, is getting more and more indicted on federal charges.
Douglas MacKinnon, a political and communications consultant who served in the White Houses of Reagan and Bush 41, made the suggestion in a column for The Hill that the president’s issues are now so serious that Democrats may be thinking of reaching out to first lady Jill Biden to see if she can persuade him to withdraw from the race for reelection.
His piece opened, “The Biden name had become for many a literal punchline, long before the latest charges against Hunter Biden.”
“With every week that goes by, a growing number of Democrats or left-leaning media publicly lament that Joe Biden will be their choice in 2024. Harold Meyerson, a left-leaning journalist and supporter of Biden, recently published an article titled “Are Democrats Sleepwalking to Disaster?” According to MacKinnon, the central thesis is that “Biden is the candidate least likely to defeat Donald Trump” and that “other Democrats need to enter the race.”
He continued by saying that even if he and Biden do not always agree, Biden should be recognised as president. Furthermore, Biden is a fellow human person, according to MacKinnon, and he takes no great joy in seeing multiple video clips portraying an aging Biden dropped online each week.
Turley went on to write: “It is now clear that Biden lied when he maintained as a candidate, and later as president, that he had no knowledge of his son’s business dealings with foreign interests … It is also now clear that he lied in denying that his son never made money in China. The indictment confirms massive transfers from Chinese sources.”
In addition, MacKinnon brought up the subject of other Biden family members who are rumoured to have participated in questionable economic dealings that not only benefited them but also potentially profited the current president, raising the question of when enough is enough.
“It’s becoming increasingly obvious that there is only one person in the nation who has the potential to discourage President Biden from running for a second term as we approach election day in 2024. Jill Biden, his wife, is that person, according to MacKinnon.
“This creates possibly the most important political question of the election: To protect her husband and the greater Biden name, will the first lady quietly but insistently intercede to convince President Biden that it is in his best interests — and that of their family — not to run for reelection?” MacKinnon wrote after noting that it seems Jill and Joe care for each other and that the first lady has her husband’s best interests at heart.