Democrat plans are destroyed, foiled by a real-life interpretation of Weekend at Bernie's concluding with another Biden meltdown
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/11/house-democrats-biden-00167711Dems had a plan to win the House. Then Biden melted down.
To win back the House, Democrats were already going to have to outrun the president. Now it’s even harder.
House Democrats anguished over President Joe Biden’s spiral are consumed by one question: Can anything save their chances of flipping the House?
So far only three endangered Democrats have publicly called for Biden to leave the presidential race. But behind the scenes, the dozens of battleground members and candidates whose races will determine the House majority are in a “hair-on-fire” level of panic, in the words of one House aide.
Battleground members have placed urgent calls to leadership and Biden’s team, commissioned new polls back home and even mulled sending a letter to Biden himself, according to more than a dozen lawmakers, aides and operatives who work on competitive congressional races.
And one group of battleground Democrats even told House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries this week that Vice President Kamala Harris would be a better than Biden, according to a person familiar with the exchange.
They always knew they would need to outperform Biden in their districts. Many fear the political gravity may be too much to overcome — and Republicans will win full control of the federal government
“Is he going to take the whole ship down?” one House Democrat close to leadership said, speaking to describe the party’s turbulence.
So far 14 members — and counting — have called on Biden to bow out of the race, mostly from safe blue seats. Others have said he has no chance to beat former President Donald Trump and started to position themselves as a check on his power. The rest are watching and waiting nervously, some with pre-drafted statements in case of another Biden flub.
