President Joe Biden is continuing to experience some rather massive fallout from his absolutely abysmal performance during last Thursday night’s presidential debate, including some bad news from donors who are threatening to withhold donations unless he can prove he’s cognitively up for the task of being the commander-in-chief. Ouch. That’s definitely going to leave a mark.
When Biden first appeared on the debate stage, you could immediately tell the event was going to go very, very badly for him. The guy looked like a robot wearing a fake face, which was the first sign that he was likely drugged up to have the energy necessary to even attempt to debate the former president. And boy, did he ever BOMB. Worst performance in debate history. Even the dolts at CNN thought so, and that’s really, really saying something.
via Deadline:
Those are the questions an exasperated top Hollywood donor had Sunday as the blast radius from the president’s disastrous June 27 debate performance continued to expand despite the White House and the campaign’s efforts to act like it was just a bump in the road to reelection.
“They need to stop blaming other people, the president needs to show people he’s up to the job,” the donor, who showed up at the fundraiser with Vice President Kamala Harris at Rob and Michele Reiner’s on Saturday evening, went on to add. “They need to get him on TV, now!”
Expressing impatience at best and anger at worst with the campaign and the 81-year-old Biden’s weak-voiced and meandering face-off with a surprisingly focused and unsurprisingly falsehood-spreading Donald Trump on CNN on Thursday, a number of deep pocketed Tinseltown contributors on both coasts tell Deadline that face time with Harris and Biden himself over the weekend has offered minimal reassurance, to put it kindly.
“It’s all off the teleprompter, it’s all don’t worry,” a NYC donor explained on Sunday. “I’m f*cking worried!” A number of donors located in New York City and Los Angeles revealed they are taking a “wait and see” approach.
Some of those who have been tossing a lot of cash into Biden’s coffers have been taking a different route, opting to speak directly to the president’s campaign privately. Others have decided to be far more open and public about how they feel about the way things are going.
“Let’s see what the plan is this week, let’s see how he turns this around,” a big shot TV showrunner and normally Democratic donor went on to say. “I want to see them flood the zone.”
Amid calls from the New York Times Editorial Board and columnists, New Yorker editor David Remnick and others for the struggling Biden to bow out ASAP in service to the nation, a repeated mantra this weekend is that if Biden, who is currently huddling at Camp David, is going to stay in the race, he has to take a drastically new stance.
Look, there’s no way they can really afford to have Biden drop out of the race right now. It would be nigh to impossible to raise enough funds to launch a successful campaign against Trump this late into the presidential race. We’re only four months away from election day. Too, little, too late as they say.
“Biden should sit down with George Stephanopoulos live for an hour this week as a start,” a well-connected producer suggested. “Make it event viewing, come clean.”
“Stump speeches, handpicked crowds don’t cut it anymore now. We are going to lose this thing if things don’t change fast,” the film and TV veteran explained further. “If he can’t do it, it’s a shame to say, (but) we need someone who can to take on Trump and his crowd.”
Again, it’s far too late in the game to even consider someone else being the nominee. The left made their bed, now they’re going to have to take a dirt nap in it.
Citing data from the White House Transition Project, the Washington Post reported in April that Biden had done 118 one-on-one interviews with media as of April 30, compared with 97 for Trump at that point in his term and 71 for Obama. Biden also bypassed the chance to do an interview with CBS News during the network’s Super Bowl pre-game, typically a way to draw a huge exposure in relatively relaxed circumstances.
There are actually some folks who want to see Vice President Kamala Harris booted from the presidential ticket and replaced with twice-failed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Anyone who thinks that is a legitimately good choice should probably stop commenting on politics because they clearly do not know or understand what is going on out there.