MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell wrecked the argument coming from some circles that President Joe Biden ought to step apart because the Democratic nominee.
How Did Lawrence O’Donnell Debunk The Dump Biden Fantasy?
O’Donnell talked in regards to the dump Biden fantasy and notably Ezra Klein’s current piece in The New York Instances and mentioned:
I discussed Joe Biden at a fund-raiser tonight, the place he’s crushing Donald Trump within the fundraising competitors. The most recent marketing campaign finance report reveals that the Biden-Harris reelection marketing campaign has $56 million available on the finish of January whereas the Trump marketing campaign had solely $30 million, President Biden can also be elevating cash with and for the Democratic Nationwide Committee which has $24 million available on the finish of January, the Republican Nationwide Committee has $8 million. On the finish of January. Within the month of January alone, the Trump marketing campaign raised eight level eight million, and spend eleven level 4 million. Donald Trump has spent a complete of $50 million on legal professionals through the marketing campaign, will spend way more. Different PACs and fundraising committees supporting the Biden-Harris ticket had a mixed $117 million at the start of this yr, and right here is the half, proper right here.
Right here’s the a part of the story that nobody who has mentioned Joe Biden ought to drop out or has written that Joe Biden ought to drop out has ever talked about that each different Democrat whose identify reveals up in these articles as an alternative to Joe Biden because the Democratic nominee has raised precisely zero or cash for a presidential marketing campaign. Nobody has instructed you in regards to the cash, That implies that none of them have thought for a second in regards to the cash, each collection observer of presidential campaigns is meant to understand how essential marketing campaign cash is, and never one among these persons are telling you that it’s time to do away with Joe Biden have given a thought to the cash, so here’s what they haven’t instructed you or just have no idea, not one penny Gavin Newsom has in his marketing campaign treasury in California is usable in a presidential marketing campaign,
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Cash raised for state elections for governors in California and different states are raised below completely different legal guidelines. Then the legal guidelines governing federal marketing campaign cash. Gavin Newsom has zero to spend on a presidential marketing campaign as of tonight, Gavin Newsom is aware of that. Gavin Newsom, if he can get the nomination would then go away the conference with no capability to even fly his manner residence. Let me say the quantity once more, zero. That’s what number of {dollars} Gavin Newsome must spend, must spend on a presidential marketing campaign leaving the Democratic conference, he would have zero.
There’s one different candidate, apart from Joe Biden, who has raised cash for presidential marketing campaign and solely that one candidate who’s executed that’s Kamala Harris, the cash raised for the Biden Harris marketing campaign was raised within the identify of each candidates, so Kamala Harris has a authorized declare on all of that cash if Joe Biden had been to drop out of that race.
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Joe Biden isn’t going anyplace, as a result of nobody else can increase the cash or construct the large group wanted to win an election towards Donald Trump within the few months earlier than election day, Eliminating Joe Biden would hand the White Home to Donald Trump.
The one different possibility for Democrats is Vice President Harris, and the identical principally white male progressives who’ve been attempting to do away with Biden have additionally been attempting to do away with Harris.
The “Biden Replacement Theory” is absolute BS, and the folks pushing it, like Ezra Klein, are good sufficient to know higher, which makes me suppose that they know precisely what they’re doing, and this can be a play for their very own relevance greater than critical concern about successful in November.
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