Will the 'door to senility' force Biden to resign?

Not surprisingly, President Joe Biden's Friday night interview with George Stephanopoulos did anything but quiet the drum for his withdrawal from the 2024 election.

A little more coherent than during his disastrous debate, but still clearly fragile, the president insisted he was up to the rigors of a campaign and had four more years to live. A pivotal moment occurred when he steadfastly refused to allay concerns by performing a neurological assessment: “I have a cognitive test every day.”

To some observers, this appeared to be Biden's “I'm not a thief” moment — recalling President Richard Nixon's infamous denial of involvement in the Democratic National Committee headquarters break-in. Indeed, we are now beginning to see comparisons between Biden's difficulties and the political turmoil that led to Nixon's resignation.

Both “Watergate” (as that scandal was called) and Biden's “Senility-gate” capped troubled presidential terms marked by searing inflation, global conflict and social unrest.

And both involved a cover-up. But in Biden's case, the cover-up was not by a few political operatives, but by an Orwellian “conspiracy of silence” involving the White House, Democrats and an all-too-willing liberal media. An amazing tally on the list at least 50 prominent politicians and operatives who blatantly lied about Biden's decline.

And the list doesn't even include pundits like the MSNBC host Joe Scarboroughwhich the wavering president ludicrously declared the “Best Biden Ever.”

This shocking betrayal of public trust was exposed by the Biden debate debacle, which, according to The Daily Mail, was the result of a “soft coup” intended to set him up to fail and cause his expulsion. Such a riot would explain why the White House unusually subjected its fragile nominee to an unscripted 90-minute showdown with former President Donald Trump.

There had to be a “big reveal” of his weakness that was undeniable, with images powerful enough to produce a non-partisan consensus that he should retire for the good of the country.

Daily Mail sources attributed the coup to the alarm over Biden's worsening condition. But the most likely trigger was the president's dismal polls. They showed an ever-increasing lead from Trump, despite the Democratic law and Trump's convictions in New York.

After all, Biden's mental fragility, while less pronounced, was no problem for Democrats during the 2020 presidential campaign. The real problem in 2024 was not Biden's deterioration, but his weakness with the voters

That is why the current uprising is only expected to intensify. Democrats understand the potential of “Senility-gate” and its cover-up to damage the party as much as Watergate did to Republicans in the 1970s. In the words of one Democratic strategist, “The dam is about to break.”

With the ranks of those calling publicly because Biden's withdrawal grows daily, there is a sense of falling dominoes. Some have begun to question the president's ability to remain in office. In the words from a USA Today columnist: “If Democrats think Biden is unfit to be the nominee, how can he … function as the nation's chief executive for another six months?”

If the president continues to dig deeper, don't be surprised if the liberal media turns their attention from the “gateway to senility” to a serious report on the “10 percent for the big one.” Finally, we will be able to find out where the money trail really leads, possibly forcing a Biden resignation before the election.

This scenario was once ruled out due to the “Kamala factor” – the vice president's unpopularity and perceived unsuitability for the Oval Office. That seems to be changing fast. White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre last week declared Harris “the future of the party.”

A Harris presidency would initially be a shock. But it would allow the Bidenites to stay in place and use the coming months to sell it to voters.

Despite Harris' often dignified performance as vice president, Republicans would be wrong to underestimate her. The 2020 election proved her to be a nimble debater and a demagogue.

A woman of color, “checks the boxes” of the identity-obsessed Democratic base. There is no way the next Democratic convention is going to reject her for another candidate.

A recent survey it actually shows her coming in second to Michelle Obama as the Democrat most likely to beat Trump. Like the slightly less impaired Joe Biden of 2020, he may be a lot more electable than people think. And for Democrats, that's all that matters.

Elizabeth Ames is co-author of INFLATION: What it is, why it's bad, and how to fix it (Meeting) and screenwriter/co-producer of the public television documentary In the money we trust?

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