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President Biden’s New Conference is Make or Break.
And I still think it’s already way too late.
Well, this is it…
It feels as though we’ve reached the inflection point in the aftermath of the debate between President Biden and former President Trump a couple of weeks ago. A debate that quite frankly seemed to leave the Democratic Party reeling, and people all over the country wondering whether Biden was even fit to hold office currently, let alone for another four years. The drum beat for him to suspend his reelection campaign has been sustained and relentless, with the calls echoing from figures ranging from Van Jones and David Axelrod to top democratic donor George Clooney.
But, in the midst of all of it, it was the comments from none other than top Democrat and congresswoman Nancy Pelosi that seemed to stick out above the rest.
Leigh Ann Caldwell, Marianna Sotomayor, Jacqueline Alemany and Paul Kane with The Washington Post write:
“In a 10-minute TV appearance on “Morning Joe” at 7:40 a.m., Pelosi — who has a decades-long relationship with the president and still commands the deep respect of her colleagues — left her mark on the biggest political crisis facing the Democratic Party in years.
“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run…