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NY Times: By Midsummer, Senate Democrats Secretly Believed Biden Was No Longer Fit for Office​




We knew the general gist of how Democrat lawmakers lost all faith in the octogenarian Joe Biden in the past year, and how Biden’s abysmal performance on the debate stage the night of June 27 prompted a panic. But this morning’s New York Times offers Chuck Schumer’s version of events, and the details are pretty jarring.

If there were a secret ballot among Democrat senators, Mr. Schumer would tell the president, no more than five would say he should continue running. Mr. Biden’s own pollsters assessed that he had about a 5 percent chance of prevailing against Donald J. Trump, Mr. Schumer would tell him — information that was apparently news to the president. And if the president refused to step aside, the senator would argue, the consequences for Democrats and Mr. Biden’s own legacy after a half-century of public service would be catastrophic.

…When [Schumer] asked whether Mr. Biden had talked to his pollsters about his chances of winning the race, the president shook his head.

“Well, I have talked to them,” Mr. Schumer said. “My guess is you have about a 5 percent chance. None of your pollsters disagree with me.”
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The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Biden never met with, and apparently never heard directly from his own presidential campaign pollsters.

Press aides who compiled packages of news clips for Biden were told by senior staff to exclude negative stories about the president. The president wasn’t talking to his own pollsters as surveys showed him trailing in the 2024 race.

…The president’s team of pollsters also had limited access to Biden, according to people familiar with the president’s polling. The key advisers have famously had the president’s ear in most past White Houses.

Biden’s pollsters didn’t meet with him in person and saw little evidence that the president was personally getting the data that they were sending him...
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