Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell & Jonathan V. Last: 'Here's What Needs to Happen'

Source:The Bulwark talking about guess what. 

"The Secret Pod makes an emergency appearance to work through last night's terrible performance by Biden and to urge the Democratic Party to do the responsible thing in this moment." 

From The Bulwark

As I wrote about this yesterday: 

"President Biden's task tonight, is to show that he's in full command, he's doing the job, he has a record to run on and this is what he wants to continue to do as President, if just given another term. While at the same time he's making the case that he's physically and mentally up for the job and doing the job, Donald Trump as the Biden Campaign has already said: "Is only in it for himself."

From The New Democrat

As my colleague Rik Schneider wrote about this earlier today: 

"Just to take on 1 point first. The New Democrat is not going to get into what the race would look like, if President Biden literally steps down and releases his delegates at the Democratic National Convention. I don't think that's going to happen. Whether it should or not, that's a different question. I'm just going to look at this as if the President decides to move forward, and what are the consequences of last night's debate and where the election goes from here. 

If there was anything good about last night's debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, is that Mr. Trump didn't add any new voters to his base. Even with all the baggage of the Biden presidency, mostly relating to the President's age, and inflation, the Trump-Biden race was essentially in a dead heat. At least in the popular vote. Which tells me, as well as a lot of other people, that whatever problems they have with President Joe Biden, they don't like Donald Trump. 

What people don't like about Donald Trump having to do with his self-obsession, his lying, his inability to stick to the same script, they got 100 minutes of that Donald Trump. The problem is that you didn't have a strong, sharp, opponent, for the most part, there to point about all of Donald Trump's lies and hold him accountable for that, with few exceptions." 

From The New Democrat

As my colleague Kire Schneider wrote about this earlier today: 

"If think Jonathan Martin had a great line here when he said: "Joe Biden might not be able to recover. But Trump could still lose it." Democrats, especially the Biden Campaign, need to always remember exactly who they're running against and the actual threat that Donald Trump and MAGA represents and the threat that they are to the country.

The Biden Campaign, assuming that President Biden doesn't step aside, has to go on the offense, after they hopefully successful pivot from the President's bad debate by simply owning his bad performance last night, is simply pound Donald Trump, like you need a knockout to win the fight, or at least the last 3-5 rounds of the fight. 

And while they are doing that, they'll be able to do that with a lot of negative commercials about Donald Trump, not just from the debate but going forward and perhaps even with what DJT's eventual vice presidential selection has said and written about him in the past." 

From The New Democrat

Just to go off what Sarah Longwell said: "I would be very disappointed after that, if Joe Biden decided just to continue to go on. It would be a very selfish proposition. And of course I'll back him and do everything that I can for him. But I think it's wrong. (Talking about Joe Biden continuing with his campaign) And I think there's a consensus that can be reached. And people can go out strong with a consensus candidate that they can back." 

If you are wondering why The New Democrat is going with the center-right, Republican, Never-Trumper reactions to this debate, I'll tell you anyway. We''re not Republicans at The New Democrat. But we are New Democrats and we are center-right, JFK/Henry Jackson/even Joe Biden even Democrats. We know what MSNBC and company is saying. You either have far-left Democrats up there saying that Joe Biden has to step down. Or Democrats trying to argue that the debate doesn't matter. I'm not interested in that. And to their credit, even left-wing, hippie, Rachel Maddow talking about what's the best move going forward, knowing that Joe Biden will most likely still be the Democrat for President. So it's not all MSNBC arguing that it's not a disaster for the President, or he should simply drop out.

And I don't think there's much point in talking about President Biden stepping down, until he actually does that, because it would be like debating what would happen if Donald Trump suddenly plead guilty to all the felonies that he's facing. There's not much point in talking about what it would be like if this happened, if there' very little, if any possibility of it happening.

If you want to defeat Donald Trump, you have to go with the best available candidate, who has their party's nomination for president, who has the best chance at defeating Donald Trump. And right now, for better or for worst, whatever you think of Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom, they're not going to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2024. So we as anti-Trump voters have to decide what's the best strategy for Joe Biden and company going forward. 

I still stand by what I said about the debate yesterday. The President didn't accomplish what he had to do . And we're now even hearing discussions about whether Joe Biden should drop out or not as a result. But going forward, if you don't want Donald Trump to ever be President of the United States again, you have to develop the best strategy that can be used to defeat Donald Trump, knowing that Joe Biden is the only person who can beat Trump.

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