The carpet is being rolled out in the race for next November’s Presidential election as more and more Democratic officials in the US are rolling out the carpet, escalating pressure on the US President, Joe Biden to drop out of the election and with it the party nomination.

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From the initial 20 members of Congress who had expressed reservations, the wave of Democratic party officials calling for Joe Biden to ease the process is now daily and growing, at a time when the US President appears indignant as he feels he is being fired by an “orchestrated campaign” to get him out of the election race. Biden’s wrath is not excluding his former close associates, such as former US President Barack Obama, with whom Joe Biden is said to be particularly “bitter” about his predecessor’s stance, expressing reservations about his ability to respond to such a demanding campaign.

“Unprecedented situations”

In this informal debate,with Democrats escalating their responses in order to emotionally drive President Biden out of electoral action, the manipulations are surgical and the situations “unprecedented.” as many of the party officials involved in the processes point out, describing the three weeks after Joe Biden’s failed appearance at the Atlanta campaign debate as “too unusual to be real, too unexpected to be believed.”

Consent required

That’s because, despite calls from top Democrats, Joe Biden’s possible replacement cannot be launched without his consent, and things would clearly be better for the presidential race if the US president were to withdraw before the Democratic convention on August 19 in Chicago.

At the same time, Joe Biden’s campaign staffers are reporting that the US President remains “committed” to leading the race, while attempting to boost the morale of those remaining to strongly support him within the Democratic Party. Indeed, his staffers have had a series of phone calls with Biden supporters in the last 24 hours, while the US President sent a message in all directions from Delaware, saying that “Donald Trump’s dark vision of the future does not represent who we are as Americans. Today, as a party and as a country, we can and will defeat him at the polls. I look forward to returning to the campaign trail next week to continue to expose the threat posed by Donald Trump’s Plan 2025 agenda.”

At the same time, top Biden campaign officials are publicly admitting that there has been “some slippage in support in recent days, but it was a small move,” they say, hoping to change the climate.

“End the chaos”

In any case, Democratic operatives who have publicly come out either for or against Biden’s nomination describe the situation as “unacceptable” and call for an “end to the chaos” as early as Monday, worrying too much about both the party’s electoral performance and its unity the next day. Significantly, two-thirds of the party, not the party as a whole, would look favourably on the replacement of Joe Biden by Kamala Harris, whose supporters, however, have been working in recent hours on the prospect of building a quick election campaign if developments run at breakneck speed.

Potentiality to donors

Meanwhile, in a Zoom meeting held earlier this month after the Atlanta debate among the 75 wealthiest Democratic political donors, only one said he thinks Joe Biden should stay in the race. All the rest, according to CNBC, which was spoken to by one of the meeting participants, made it clear they believed Biden should leave the race if the party wanted to defeat Trump in November.

Since that meeting, major donors who fund either Biden’s campaign, his allied political action committees or the party as a whole have launched a lobbying campaign targeting senior Democrats in both the House and Senate to get Biden to drop out. Their goal is to persuade lawmakers to publicly call on Biden to end his re-election campaign, in a domino effect of public interventions that has escalated in recent hours.

Harris prepares, helping hand from Michelle and Clinton

In this climate, the Washington Post has described the process of replacing Joe Biden, with current Vice President Kamala Harris as the frontrunner, though both California Governor Gavin Newsom and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer have been heard from in the race, with no immediate interest expressed.

Although Joe Biden’s resignation does not imply the transfer of the nomination to Kamala Harris as Vice President, Democratic officials close to her are in the last hours preparing the roadmap for her campaign, with a focus on the controversial states and the black voter community.

The informal staff that has been put in place and the understandings that exist are not under Harris’s approval, according to NBC, which reports, however, that “Harris’s path could be more focused on mobilizing black voters in southern states like Georgia and North Carolina than on Biden’s strategy, which includes working to lock down Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.”

The same “strategy includes holding rallies in states like Georgia with former first lady Michelle Obama, who polls show remains popular with voters, and events in Midwestern states like Michigan with former President Bill Clinton,” they conclude.