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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell rejects arguments coming from some quarters that President Joe Biden should step down as the Democratic nominee.
How Lawrence O'Donnell Debunked the Dump Biden Fantasy
O'Donnell spoke about the dump Biden fantasy and specifically Ezra Klein's recent piece in The New York Times, saying:
I mentioned Joe Biden at a fund-raiser tonight, where he is defeating Donald Trump in the fund-raising competition. The latest campaign finance reports show the Biden-Harris re-election campaign had $56 million at the end of January, while the Trump campaign had only $30 million President Biden is also raising money for the Democratic National Committee, which has $24 million There are million. At the end of January, the Republican National Committee has $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 has spent a total of 50 million dollars on lawyers during the election campaign, and will spend even more. Other PACs and fundraising committees supporting the Biden-Harris ticket had a combined $117 million earlier this year, and that's where the bulk of it lies.
Here's the part of the story that no one who said Joe Biden should drop out or wrote that Joe Biden should drop out ever mentioned that every other Democrat named in these articles Appears as an alternative to Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee. Has raised absolutely zero or no money for the presidential campaign. What no one has told you about money means that none of them have even thought for a moment about money. Every series observer of presidential campaigns should know how much campaign money Important, and What None of These People Are Telling You It's Time to Get Rid of Joe Biden They've Thought About Money, So Here's What They Didn't Tell You or Just Don't Know Gavin Newsom doesn't have a dime in his campaign coffers in California that can be used in a presidential campaign,
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Money raised for state elections for governor in California and other states is raised under various laws. Then the laws governing federal campaign money. Gavin Newsom has zero money to spend on the presidential campaign as of tonight, Gavin Newsom knows it. Gavin Newsom, if he gets the nomination, will skip the convention and won't even be able to fly home. Let me say the number again, zero. That means Gavin Newsom will have zero dollars to spend on the presidential campaign, excluding the Democratic convention.
There is one other candidate besides Joe Biden who has raised money for the presidential campaign and the only other candidate who has done so is Kamala Harris, the money raised for the Biden Harris campaign has been raised in the name of both the candidates, so Kamala What Harris has done is to have a legal claim on all that money if Joe Biden drops out of the race.
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Joe Biden just isn’t going anyplace, as a result of nobody can increase the cash wanted to win the election in opposition to Donald Trump or construct the massive group he must win the election in opposition to Joe Biden within the months earlier than Election Day. The Home will probably be handed over to Donald Trump.
The one different possibility for the Democrats is Vice President Harris, and the identical largely white male progressives making an attempt to eliminate Joe Biden are additionally making an attempt to eliminate Harris.
The “Biden Alternative Principle” is full BS, and the folks pushing it, like Ezra Klein, are sensible sufficient to know higher, which makes me assume they actually know what they’re doing, and it’s theirs. There’s a play for its relevance. In comparison with severe considerations about victory in November.
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