I am a lifelong Democrat; I make no apologies for that. I am proud of what my party stands for and what it stands for. As part of my participation in the democratic process and in support of my chosen candidate, I have led some of the largest fundraisers in my party's history. Barack Obama a 2012. Hillary Clinton a 2016. Joe Biden enters 2020. Last month I co-hosted the the biggest fundraiser supporting any Democratic candidate for President Biden's re-election. I say all this just to express how much I believe in this process and how deep I think this moment is.
I love Joe Biden. As a senator As Vice President and as President. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. He believes in his morals. In the last four years, he has won many of the battles he has faced.
But the one battle he can't win is the fight against time. None of us can do that. It's devastating to say, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe.”big deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
I was tired? Yes. A cold? May be. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn't see what we just saw. We are all so terrified of the prospect of a second Trump term that we have chosen to ignore all the warning signs. The George Stephanopoulos interview only reinforced what we saw last week. As Democrats, we collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume every time we see the president, whom we respect, step off Air Force One or return to a microphone to answer an unscripted question.
Is it fair to point these things out? Must be. This is about age. Nothing more. But also nothing that can be reversed. We will not win in November with this president. Also, we won't win the House and we'll lose the Senate. This is not just my opinion; that's the opinion of every senator and congressman and governor I've talked to privately. Everyone, regardless of what they say publicly.
We love to talk about how the Republican Party has ceded all the power, and all the traits that made it so formidable under Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush, to a single person who wants to keep the presidency, and yet most of our The members of Congress choose to wait and see if the dam breaks. But the dam has been broken. We can put our heads in the sand and pray for a miracle in November, or we can tell the truth.
It is disingenuous at best to argue that the Democrats have already spoken to their vote and therefore the nomination is settled and done, when we have just received new and disturbing information. We all think the Republicans should dump their candidate now that he has been convicted of 34 felonies. It's also new and annoying information. Top Democrats—Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi—and senators, representatives and other candidates facing loss in November must call on this president to voluntarily step down.
All the scare stories we are told about what will happen next are simply not true. In all likelihood, money from the Biden-Harris coffers could be used to help elect the presidential ticket and other Democrats. The new candidate would not be left off the ballot in Ohio. We Democrats have a very exciting bench. We do not anoint leaders or fall into a cult of personality; let's vote for a president We can easily foresee a group of several strong Democrats coming forward and telling us why they are best qualified to lead this country and take on some of the deeply troubling trends we are seeing from Donald Trump's presidential revenge tour. campaign
We hear from Wes Moore and Kamala Harris and Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom and Andy Beshear and JB Pritzker and others. We agree that the candidates should not attack each other but instead, in the short time we have, focus on what will make this country rise. Then we could go into the Democratic convention next month and find out.
Would it be messy? Yes. Democracy is messy. But would it energize our party and awaken voters who, long before the June debate, had already checked? I sure would. The short ramp to election day would be a benefit to us, not a danger. It would give us a chance to show the future without as much opposition research and negative campaigning as comes with these ridiculously long and expensive election seasons. This can be an exciting time for democracy, as we have just seen with the 200 French candidates who stood aside and put their personal ambitions on hold to save their democracy from the far right.
Joe Biden is a hero; he saved democracy in 2020. we need him to do it again in 2024.
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