Joe Biden is dropping out of the presidential race

Prosecuting the Anti-LGBTQ agenda in the wake of Vice President Biden’s decision to resign the presidency

Vice President Harris was back on the campaign trail this weekend, raising money for the Biden-Harris ticket in Massachusetts and Delaware, while President Biden remained away due to a case of carbon dioxide.

In a large tent near the the harbor, hundreds of Democratic donors cheered and waved fans imprinted with “Veeptown” — a play on P-Town, as the beach town known for its LGBTQ history and community is called.

Donald Trump had policies that removed protections for discrimination for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer population for health care, employment, and students.

She said Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, “undoubtedly will be a rubber stamp for Trump’s extremist anti-LGBTQ agenda,” citing legislation he proposed that would ban gender-affirming care. That prompted a yell of “Go get ’em, Kamala!” One of the donors has sent this.

In the wake of President Biden’s announcement that he will not seek reelection, congressional Democrats have praised his decision his leadership but many Republicans are using the moment to call on Biden to resign the presidency.

Harris has not publicly engaged in the debate, and did not mention it in her Provincetown remarks. She praised Biden, saying she was “testifying” that he fights for “everyday working Americans.”

On Saturday, Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., called her a “tenacious prosecutor” with the experience to beat Trump. I love you and respect you, Joe. The stakes are too high to fail. It’s time to pass the torch to Kamala,” Takano said in a statement.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. — who has not called for Biden to leave the race — said Harris would unite the party if Biden changes his mind, and praised her for her work on economic issues and abortion rights. “Look — if you’re running against a convicted felon, then a prosecutor like Kamala is really a good person to make that case,” Warren said on MSBNC.

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Biden had been pushing back on concerns about his age and abilities, doing a flurry of events in swing states, as well as as a solo press conference and several interviews. That came to a stop when it was discovered that he had COVID.

In a memo, his doctor said that Biden’s symptoms are getting better though he still has a cough. Since the Republican National Convention ended, the pace of Democrats asking Biden to leave has picked up.

Michael Tyler told reporters on Saturday that the president would go on the road again next week once he got the green light from his doctor.

Party leaders were concerned that Biden would lose to Trump in the Senate race, and that he would support tough House races. Rep. Jamie Raskin told him he was like Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez, who in 2003, stayed in the game too long.

He had to lighten his rhetoric after the assassination attempt on Trump because he wheeled out new attack lines in a retooled speech. As Republicans gathered at their national convention, he tried to campaign in Nevada to create some counterprogramming — then got COVID, sending him into isolation in Delaware.

The debate against Trump was thought to be the start of this contrast. Biden was in charge of the debate, which was held after months earlier than usual, and with no live crowd or microphones unless directed to speak.

Biden publicly railed against the “elites” in his party. “I don’t care what those ‘big names’ think. They were wrong about the red wave in 2020. They’re wrong in 2024,” Biden said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on July 8.

He met with Democratic politicians and gave them his opinion on whether or not he should continue in the race.

The performance sent Democrats into a panic, and prompted a steady drip of private and public calls for Biden to step back from the campaign and make way for a new candidate.

The president spoke with a raspy voice and didn’t make clear points on a number of issues important to his reelection platform, including protecting abortion access.

The goal was to send a clear message to Biden’s doubters: that he could swat away concerns about his age by showing off his first-term record and decades-long political tenure.

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In the month of March 1968, an incumbent U.S. president decided against running for a second term in the face of pressure from the Vietnam War.

His decision comes just a month ahead the party’s convention. It will be difficult for the party to get organized on time because of the path ahead.

In a letter to X on Sunday, Biden said it had been the greatest honor of his life to serve as your President. While it has been my desire to seek reelection, I think it’s in the best interests of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on my duties as President for the remainder of my term.

It’s not surprising that there is a real danger in ignoring the statistics and taking a bow to the overflowing appreciation of the crowd if your arm is tired out.

Back in 2020, when Biden was running to become the Democratic presidential candidate, he had called himself a “bridge” to younger stars in his party as he campaigned with Harris, Whitmer and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.

I realized. He said that his long time in the Senate had taught him how to deal with Congress. I want to finish it, to get that finished.

The Pain of Biden: The Campaign for a Democratic Re-election (after Schumer, Beshear, Stefanik, and Conway)

Democrats are under pressure to select an alternate candidate in a very compressed period of time that Biden adviser compared to the “Hunger Games.”

The Democratic governors of Michigan, CA, and Illinois are seen as leaders in the party. Kentucky Gov. Beshear’s reelection win could make him part of the mix.

They also quickly turned their attention to Harris as Biden’s potential successor, criticizing her record on the border, and accusing her of covering up Biden’s “mental decline.”

Harris has been a gleeful partner in destroying American sovereignty, security, and prosperity and in the largest political coverup in U.S. history. She has known for as long as any of the other people that Biden is incapable of serving.

Democrats responded with a mix of laudatory statements focused solely on Biden and support for elevating Vice President Kamala Harris. Top leaders primarily focused on Biden.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said that Biden is “an amazing human being” and that his decision was not easy. Joe, today shows you are a true patriot and great American.”

Nancy Pelosi released a statement that did not include any mention of Harris. Biden is one of the most consequential Presidents in American history, according to Pelosi.

“There’s so much at stake this election — let’s unite as a country behind Vice President Kamala Harris and rise victorious over extremism this November,” she wrote. There is never a more important election for women’s reproductive rights, for democracy, and for our future.

In a letter on x, Rep. Elise Stefanik, another member of Republican leadership, wrote that if Joe Biden can’t run for re-election, then he is not fit to serve as the President of the United States.

Biden stated in the letter that he would speak to the Nation later this week about his decision, but did not give any more information.

Democratic megadonors Laurene Powell Jobs and Ron Conway, among others, began discussing how Biden could be replaced before or during the Democratic National Convention, the New York Times reported.

Will I Don’t Donate More until I Have More Confidence? “I’m not going to donate more until I have more confidence,” Hoffman told WIRED

“I have seen some emails from people in Silicon Valley who said, ‘I’m not going to donate more until I have more confidence,’” Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn founder and Biden donor, told WIRED earlier this month.

The Democratic candidate will face a Republican Party newly energized by the victory of its populist wing and an alliance with powerful Silicon Valley investors like Elon Musk—both represented in the ascension of 39-year-old Peter Thiel acolyte J.D. Vance to the ticket as Trump’s vice president and heir apparent.