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It's not Biden's "inner circle", it's BIDEN. If you come for the King, you'd best not miss. They're all scared of missing.

Also, the only people with actual power here are the pledged delegates, and they're mostly Biden campaign staffers, paid and volunteer. You have to get 50% of them to jump ship. That's a very tall order, if Biden is fighting it, which he is.

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Hey, Mark. You're right - the central problem is definitely Joe and Jill. Which is why what's probably called for here is an intervention by people with political heft who don't stand to lose anything by telling the emperor he's naked. Barack Obama comes to mind, as does Nancy Pelosi. Carville has suggested Bill Clinton could get involved. Do you think that if those three led a delegation to the president of the handful of Congressional Democrats who have openly supported his stepping down, and they explained to him calmly that he will go down in history as either the vain, hubristic old coot who handed the election to Trump, with whatever that may ultimately entail for the country, or the vain, hubristic old coot who bears direct responsibility for all the violence and havoc the world's bad actors will undoubtedly unleash during Biden's second term, he would continue to dig in his heels? He very well might, but surely it's worth a try?

And is it really a pipe dream that half the delegates would jump at the chance to nominate somebody who is both capable of winning the election and capable of holding down the job for the next four years? Maybe it is. But again - surely the stakes are too high to just humor Joe Biden into an inevitable disaster of one form or another.

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Yes, I think he would continue to dig in his heels. He truly believes only he can beat Trump, and his family and closest advisors are all reinforcing that, because for them it doesn't matter how Biden goes out, they will be out too, and they don't want that. Reports are that Biden does not trust Obama (who talked Biden out of running in 2016) or Clinton (whose wife took his rightful [his belief] place in 2016). And then it's very high stakes for Schumer, Jeffries, etc, to go to Biden: that will get reported, and if Biden STILL doesn't back down (he won't), then THEY get blamed for undermining his campaign. And every last one of them, both parties, cares way more about their own future career than they do about the country.

The time to move against Biden was BEFORE the primaries. Biden turning down a Super Bowl interview (softball, huge audience) in February was a giant red flag. Democrats should have immediately recruited a credible challenger or two (say, Klobuchar, Newsom) demanded extensive primary debates. But they (like all large groups) have a collective action problem, and they still do, only now it's much worse because they have no actual power to get Biden out.

The Democrats in Congress understand all this perfectly well. AOC just came out in support of Biden. She's good at politics, she knows when to hold and when to fold, and she just folded.

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Oh I don't know. I bet he could be an assistant to the regional manager at Jamba Juice. I've never been to Jamba Juice, so what would I know...?

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