Hakeem Jeffries reportedly did not offer Biden his endorsement in private meeting – as it happened
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Top House Democrat shared caucus’s ‘heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path forward’ with Biden but did not endorse president’s campaign

The House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said he shared lawmakers’ “insight, heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path forward” in a private meeting with Joe Biden yesterday.

The meeting came after more than a dozen House Democrats publicly called on the president to end his bid for re-election after his stumbling performance against Donald Trump in their first debate.

Jeffries had promised that he would talk to Biden after speaking with all of the 213 Democrats in the House of Representatives, and, in a letter to lawmakers today, he indicated that he has done so, without elaborating on Biden’s response.

Deep-pocketed Democratic donors are putting multimillion-dollar pledges on hold and saying they won’t hand over the money until Joe Biden abandons his re-election campaign, the New York Times reports.

Others are holding off on giving any more money to Future Forward, the largest Super Pac supporting the president’s campaign.

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
    48·
    4 months ago

    Honestly, donors pulling money is the only way Biden will drop out.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
      42·
      4 months ago

      It might just turn me into a Biden supporter*, I hate how much influence rich fucks have on our politics

      *I was/am going to vote for him or whoever the Democratic nominee is anyway, but I have always thought Joe Biden was a racist-rehabilitating credit card company loving piece of crap and take every opportunity I can to point out that I think the Democratic party needs to do way better than this, but the whole reason we got stuck with President Biden in the first place is because of big money donors like this who think they know better than everyone else

      • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
        18·
        4 months ago

        Wait the donors acknowledging they were dumb to stuck us with him is the reason you may turn into a supporter?

        Thats some logic

        • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
          12·
          4 months ago

          What the donors and the party need to acknowledge is that letting donors rig our party in favor of their own preferences kills our voters’ enthusiasm and keeps them home. This shouldn’t be happening because Rob Reiner and George Clooney suddenly had a change of heart, if this was going to happen it should have happened months ago when Biden’s approval ratings were already in the toilet, or when the college student voters we need to be campaign volunteers were protesting Palestinian genocide, or any one of a dozen other moments.