(Daily Mail) The Democrat Party plot to get Joe Biden to drop out has been long in the works, a Biden insider claims.
That plan came to fruition on Sunday, when the 81-year-old president dramatically announced the end of his campaign before endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.
However, a source close to Biden’s family is saying that the party put together a ‘palace coup’ over the course of recent weeks, with the president fighting it until he was threatened with being forced out.
The insider says that the disastrous debate against Donald Trump on June 27 – the earliest presidential debate in history – was part of the strategy, despite being publicly requested by Biden on social media.
‘That debate was a set-up to convince Democrats that he couldn’t run for president,’ the source told the New York Post.
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The Democrat Party plot to get Joe Biden to drop out has been long in the works, a Biden insider claims
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The 81-year-old president dramatically announced the end of his campaign before endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday
Biden was often seen on split screen with his mouth agape and a blank stare during the showdown against Trump last month, immediately sending Democrats into a freak out.
Though publicly, most of the faces of the left stayed behind Biden, in the shadows, party powerbrokers were threatening to invoke the 25th amendment.
Section 4 of the amendment allows for removal of a president who is deemed incapacitated by any kind of illness, injury, or mental impairment.
One of the few trusted by Biden who believed he was being pushed out: troubled son Hunter, who became a gatekeeper for his father after the debate.
‘Hunter felt he was being set up and he was very concerned about his father. These people, these officials were not on Joe’s side,’ the source claimed.
They also said that it might not be a straight shot to the nomination for Harris, despite Biden’s endorsement.
The source claimed that Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona may be a popular pick of delegates, though the former astronaut has already endorsed Harris.
Once Biden was finally, officially convinced to get out, everything moved at the speed of light.
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An insider says that the disastrous debate against Donald Trump on June 27 – the earliest presidential debate in history – was part of the strategy, despite being publicly requested by Biden on social media
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