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A Bug’s Life, 1998

Hope for the democratic party?

When Obama had a bad night against Mitt Romney no Democratic operative or donor, deep background or no, would have been caught dead suggesting maybe he should drop out of the race. A significant part of the higher echelons of the party responded to tonight's disaster by immediately texting a reporter and going full rat mode on the dissected husk in the Oval Office. That is not something those people do lightly, although I suspect a certain amount of pent up frustration with what was already self-evident to many observes with far less access played a role in their decision to speak out. Asked for comment Govenors Newsom of California and Pritzker of Illinois, two front runners for the nomination in 2028, both reiterated their support for the President. Which is honestly almost worse than if they'd made a non committal response, because no one who publicly ratfucks the incumbent is going to get called out of the bullpen to replace him on the ticket, and both of them saw the same debate you did. One anonymous Democratic donor suggested a ticket composed of the governors of Maryland and Michigan though for the life of me I can't imagine why you would give Gov. Whitmer second billing (Whitmer would be my first choice for a pinch hitter but that's beside the point). The Democrats are going to spend the next news cycle or six trying to make you believe what we all saw, either live or later in dribs and drabs, wasn't as bad as it obviously was. The Republicans are going to move in for the kill like a pack of jackals surrounding a wounded gazelle (do those even live in the same ecosystem? doesn't matter, any more than it matters that Trump spent the whole debate lying capriciously and talking about his golf game). Regardless of whether or not the Democrats manage to put down the full on mutiny currently underway at the highest levels of the party, the damage is done. A poll before the debate put Trump up 4 points among likely voters. If the spread stays in single digits in the next few days that will be a small miracle. The Democrats are beyond fucked, but they can't say they weren't warned.

I think you vastly underestimate the impact of a candidate getting on stage, saying literal complete gibberish and finishing with "we beat Medicare!" There's no precedent for that at this level of politics. Best case scenario, most of Biden's bleeding goes into the undecided column, but with him already down by four against Trump him losing another 6+ over this is extremely likely, and anything less will be miraculous.

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