By Dave Andrusko
Holy, moly the walls are really beginning to close on pro-abortion President Joe Biden. There are stories galore that former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and perhaps former President Barack Obama are looking for ways to ease Biden out of the White House.
According to Politico’s Jonathan Martin
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, convinced Biden will lose, has been working the phones since June 27 in hopes of finding a way to ease him off the ticket.
Adding to the picture of a party in disarray, The Hill’s Kevin Igoe writes that Pelosi
waited for signals from the Senate side of the Capitol that Democratic Party heavyweights were ready to speak the truth to the president of the United States. Very few Senate Democrats were willing to write an addendum to “Profiles in Courage.” They took their cue from Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and his constant refrain “I’m for Joe.”
But Biden’s Senate coalition cracked when Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) went on cable television to say that Biden was going to lose and take the House and Senate with him. Second-ranking Senate Democrat Dick Durbin (Ill.) and third-ranking Patty Murray (D-Wash.) issued statements casting doubt on Biden’s political viability and taking a wait-and-see position.
Then, the Senate dam broke when Peter Welch (D-Vt.) wrote in The Washington Post that Biden should not seek reelection.
Then there’s the latest polling numbers from the Washington Post. Emily Guskin is Deputy Polling Director tells us
Overall, fewer Biden supporters say they “strongly” support their candidate today (34 percent) this month than they did in April (44 percent), according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
That leaves nearly two-thirds of Biden backers saying they support him “with reservations” (34 percent) or because they mainly dislike other candidates (31 percent).
By contrast
Among Trump supporters, 57 percent say they strongly support their candidate, little changed from 55 percent in April. A smaller 31 percent say they support Trump with reservations and 12 percent mainly dislike other candidates.
More ominous, perhaps, than these dismal numbers is that there are now fissures within the Congressional Black Caucus which has been rock-solid in support of Biden [].
And then, finally for today, there is the fight between a “small number of aides” who have been with Biden for decades and outsiders. The Washington Post writes
Democratic lawmakers and strategists inside the effort to reelect President Biden have grown concerned in recent days that he is listening to a small number of aides who are limiting the data he receives.
Two Democratic strategists involved in the president’s reelection effort said Biden needs to be hearing more directly from the top officials on his own campaign, as well as from his own polling team. “Listening to younger, more fresh voices would be helpful,” said one of the strategists, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters.
The calls for broader advice come as Democratic lawmakers are raising new doubts about what Biden has been told about his support, after a Zoom call Saturday when Biden argued without evidence that he was leading in national polls outside the typical margin of error.
If that weren’t bad enough for President Biden, he won the Commonwealth of Virginia by 10 points in 2020. But now, the Washington Post’s Gregory S. Schneider writes
Former president Donald Trump leads President Biden in Virginia by three percentage points in a new Virginia Commonwealth University-Wilder School poll…
The results, which are within the poll’s 4.8-point margin of error, show Biden dropping from the 42 percent support he enjoyed in the last VCU-Wilder School Commonwealth Poll, released in January, while Trump was unchanged at 39 percent. …
A New York Times-Siena College poll conducted in Virginia July 9-12 showed the opposite result, with Biden leading Trump by three percentage points — 48 to 45 — among likely voters, though that result is also within the poll’s margin of error. Both polls are in line with other recent Virginia surveys that suggest a significant decline in support for Biden, who beat Trump in the state by 10 points in 2020.
More tomorrow.