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 Tommaso BoddiLet's start with the obvious: No one actually knows the best path forward for the Democratic Party in 2024, and all options in front of us are bad. A second Biden term is seeming less and less likely, and Democratic voters and pundits like seem increasingly nervous that we're marching to our own funeral. But the prospect of challenging an incumbent president just a few months before an election also seems hubristic and dangerous, especially when the Democratic Party is deeply divided, the vice president is unpopular and has been largely marginalized, and there is no obvious Plan B. The worst of all worlds seems to be a scenario in which Biden continues his campaign but the party mutinies and an ugly replacement battle fails at everything except mortally injuring an already-weak candidate.
It is hard to overstate the stakes of this election. Joe Biden surely understands them as well. Which is why I hope that, in the aftermath of this debate, he is doing some serious soul-searching with his advisors, his colleagues, and the person he seems to trust most: His wife Jill.
The catastrophic debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Thursday was a wake-up call even for many hard Biden partis
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 Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden went into the first presidential debate Thursday night with one main task: to prove to America that, at 81 years old, he's still up to the job.
According to many members of his party, he failed spectacularly.
The president, who rarely takes questions from the media or speaks off the cuff, sounded hoarse from the start. His campaign blamed a cold, but other stumbles were harder to write off. At one point, Biden bragged "we finally beat Medicare," a flub which Trump immediately hit him on. He struggled to finish some sentences coherently. Democrats were alarmed.
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 Jean Catuffe/GC Images via GettyMichelle Obama was not happy with the Biden family over the way they treated her good friend Kathleen Buhle following her divorce from Hunter Biden, according to a report.
Two sources familiar with the relationship between the former first lady and the incumbent president's family told Axios that Michelle has privately spoken about her frustrations at the manner in which the Biden clan mostly exiled Buhle when her marriage to Hunter ended. It's partly why Michelle hasn't been campaigning for Joe Biden in his current election rematch against Donald Trump, one of the sources claimed.
The report claims that Michelle Obama was even hesitant about campaigning for Biden four years ago in his first round with Trump, and that despite continuing outward displays of warmth between the Obamas and the Bidens, the families' relationship changed in 2015.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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