Whitmer, Newsom "Don't want to run because they'll lose" to Trump

Trump can't be stopped

Suspected top picks to replace Joe Biden aren’t interested in running.

As if the phrase nothing can stop what’s coming didn’t already have enough meaning, media commentator Greg Swenson essentially says the same thing about the top Democratic governors suspected of replacing Joe Biden after the disastrous debate with Trump in late June.

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Financial Times reports, democratic donors are pushing to replace Biden and favor Whitmer and Newsom.

Top Democratic donors have made Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom their preferred candidates to replace Joe Biden in the White House race against Donald Trump, said several people familiar with the matter.

The donor focus on Michigan governor Whitmer and California governor Newsom reflects deepening frustration among Democratic operatives and backers with the impasse over Biden’s future.

Donors remain anxious about Biden’s condition and his polling since the disastrous debate with Trump last week, saying the president’s campaign is simply delaying an inevitable battle for succession with four months to go until November’s general election.

“Biden’s candidacy is doomed,” said a donor and bundler — a person tasked with collecting money from other backers — who is close to the president.

“I’m Joe’s biggest fan, he’s an admirable public servant but he’s doomed . . . we need to start putting all our focus on what comes next.”

Vice-president Kamala Harris is also among candidates donors think could replace Biden, said several donors and bundlers, who have held talks among themselves as they prepare to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to fund a new candidate.

Party grandees, including top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, have also held crisis talks with large donors to gauge their mood following the debate, donors and bundlers said.

Whitmer confirmed her disinterest, as reported by the Daily Beast.

Whitmer called the campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon Friday, after a day of frenzied speculation that she would be a frontrunner if Biden could be persuaded to quit. The second-term swing state governor, however, told O’Malley Dillon that she “hated” her name being floated and that she was loyal to the president.

An article from Notus suggests the Dems might not be planning to get rid of Biden, at least not publicaly.

“The problem that any potential replacement for Joe Biden would likely run into is that in many states, including in several key states, the deadline for getting on the ballot has already passed,” Zack Smith, a senior legal fellow at Heritage, told NOTUS. “Or in many states, the process for replacing a candidate currently on the ballot just isn’t clearly defined because it happens so rarely.”

Trump said that the Dems don’t seem to be interested in replacing Biden, despite the open calls to do so for many other people interested in beating Trump.

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An earlier report suggest that the Republicans won’t just let the Dems replace Biden, even if he does step down willingly.

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The latest polls suggest Biden went up slightly despite his performance.

(Bloomberg) President Joe Biden registered his best showing yet in a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult tracking poll of battleground states, even as voters offered withering appraisals of his debate performance amid panic within his party.

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