MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell debunked claims in some quarters that President Joe Biden should step aside as the Democratic nominee.
How did Lawrence O’Donnell debunk Biden’s fantasy?
O’Donnell spoke about Biden’s imagination and in particular Ezra Klein’s recent article in the New York Times and said:
I mentioned Joe Biden at a fundraiser tonight, where he is crushing Donald Trump in the fundraising competition. The latest campaign finance report shows that the Biden-Harris reelection campaign had $56 million at the end of January while the Trump campaign had only $30 million. President Biden is also fundraising with and for the Democratic National Committee which has $24 million. At the end of January, the Republican National Committee had $8 million. At the end of January. In the month of January alone, the Trump campaign raised eight point eight million and spent eleven point four million. Donald Trump spent a total of $50 million on lawyers during the campaign and will spend much more. Other PACs and fundraising committees supporting the Biden-Harris proposal had a combined $117 million earlier this year, and here’s the thing, right here.
Here’s the part of the story where no one who said Joe Biden should drop out or wrote that Joe Biden should drop out ever mentioned that every other Democrat whose name appears in these articles as Joe Biden’s replacement as the Democratic nominee has raised exactly zero or money for a presidential campaign. Nobody told you about money, that means none of them thought about money for a second, every observer of presidential campaigns should know how important campaign money is, and none of these people are telling you it’s time to get rid of it of Joe Biden they thought about money, so here’s what they didn’t tell you or simply don’t know, not a penny that Gavin Newsom has in his campaign treasury in California can be used in a presidential campaign,
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Money raised for state elections for governors in California and other states is collected under different laws. Then the laws that regulate federal election campaign money. Gavin Newsom has nothing to spend on the presidential campaign as of tonight, Gavin Newsom knows it. Gavin Newsom, if he managed to get the nomination, would leave the convention without even being able to fly home. Let me repeat the number, zero. This is the number of dollars that Gavin Newsome would have to spend, he would have to spend on a presidential campaign coming out of the Democratic convention, and he wouldn’t have any.
There is another candidate, besides Joe Biden, who has raised money for the presidential campaign and only the candidate who has done so is Kamala Harris, the money raised for Biden Harris’ campaign has been raised in the names of both candidates , so Kamala Harris has a legal claim to all that money if Joe Biden were to drop out of that race.
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Joe Biden isn’t going anywhere, because no one else can raise money or build the massive organization needed to win the election against Donald Trump in the few months before Election Day. Getting rid of Joe Biden would hand the White House to Donald Trump. .
The only other option for Democrats is Vice President Harris, and the same mostly white male progressives who tried to get rid of Biden also tried to get rid of Harris.
The “Biden replacement theory” is total bullshit, and the people who support it, like Ezra Klein, are smart enough to know better, which makes me think they know exactly what they’re doing, and that’s a game for their relevance. than a serious concern about winning in November.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a member of the White House press pool and a congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in political science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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