{"id":2288472,"date":"2024-07-03T09:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-congressional-democrat-officially-jumps-ship-on-biden-not-done-lightly\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:10:19","slug":"first-congressional-democrat-officially-jumps-ship-on-biden-not-done-lightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-congressional-democrat-officially-jumps-ship-on-biden-not-done-lightly\/","title":{"rendered":"First Congressional Democrat Officially Jumps Ship on Biden: &#8216;Not Done Lightly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffirst-congressional-democrat-officially-jumps-ship-on-biden-not-done-lightly%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2288472&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u2063article discusses calls from \u200bpresent and\u200b former Democratic congressmen for President Joe Biden to withdraw from \u2062the race in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rand-paul-offers-dr-rachel-levine-as-example-of-radical-agenda-riding-bidens-coattails\/\" title=\"Sen. Rand Paul Offers Dr. Rachel Levine As Example Of Radical Agenda Riding Biden\u2019s Coattails\">upcoming presidential election<\/a>. Texas Democrat Rep. Lloyd Doggett and others have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-jim-jordan-gives-ultimatum-on-the-upcoming-electoral-college-showdown-video\/\" title=\"WATCH: Jim Jordan Gives Ultimatum On The Upcoming Electoral College Showdown (VIDEO)\">raised concerns<\/a> about\u200b Biden&#8217;s performance and the possibility of a return to power by former \u2063President Donald Trump. They suggest that Biden should follow \u2063the example set by former President Lyndon Baines Johnson in withdrawing from the race. Other notable figures, such as Tim Ryan\u2063 and Juli\u00e1n Castro, have also called for Biden \u2063to \u2062step \u2062aside. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/time-magazine-takes-chinese-cash-to-promote-controversial-drone-business\/\" title=\"Time Magazine Takes Chinese Cash To Promote Controversial Drone Business\">article highlights<\/a> \u2063the \u200dgrowing pressure on Biden from within the Democratic Party and the media, with\u200d some major\u200b publications urging \u200dhim to withdraw. The debate around Biden&#8217;s candidacy\u2064 and the \u200cfuture of the Democratic Party is \u2062intensifying as the election approaches.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 3, 2024 at 4:45am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>President Joe Biden doesn\u2019t seem to be taking a whole lot of hints from the media \u2014 so now, present and former Democratic congressmen are starting to do it for him.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, Texas Democrat Rep. Lloyd Doggett, 77, said that Biden should follow the example of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/good-news-trump-2024-election-looking-like-1968-5-ways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyndon Baines Johnson<\/a> and bow out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>But naturally, he did it with whipping up fears about former President Donald Trump returning to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump, newly empowered with immunity, could usher America into a long, dark, authoritarian era unchecked by either the courts or a submissive Republican Congress,\u201d Doggett said in a media statement, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/07\/02\/doggett-first-house-democrat-urges-biden-to-withdraw-from-presidential-race.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden has continued to run substantially behind Democratic senators in key states and in most polls has trailed Donald Trump,\u201d the statement read. \u201cI had hoped that the debate would provide some momentum to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt did not,\u201d he noted, with significant understatement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of reassuring voters, the President failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments and expose Trump\u2019s many lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then turned to the example set by his fellow Texan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-tim-scott-obliterates-slavery-lies-debate-survived-slavery-not-lbj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LBJ<\/a>, in pulling out of his run for re-election in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder very different circumstances, [Johnson] made the painful decision to withdraw.\u00a0President Biden should do the same,\u201d Doggett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy decision to make these strong reservations public is not done lightly nor does it in any way diminish my respect for all that President Biden has achieved,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecognizing that, unlike Trump, President Biden\u2019s first commitment has always been to our country, not himself, I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Doggett is not necessarily a massive name in the Democratic Party, he is the first congressional Democrat to publicly call for Biden\u2019s withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, two former elected Democrats with higher profiles called upon Biden to step aside this week.<\/p>\n<p>Former Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio \u2014 who ran unsuccessful campaigns to unseat Nancy Pelosi as speaker and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democratic-senate-candidate-tim-ryans-attempt-smear-jd-vance-racist-backfires-heated-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to become senator<\/a>, a race he lost to Republican Sen. J.D. Vance two years ago \u2014 wrote a commentary piece for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/kamala-harris-should-democratic-nominee-president-2024-opinion-1919894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a> published Monday, bluntly titled, \u201cKamala Harris Should Be the Democratic Nominee for President in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden\u2019s debate performance was deeply troubling. But it isn\u2019t just about a 90-minute debate and a terrible performance. This election needs to be about generational change \u2014 something about which I have been shouting for more than a year now,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He added Biden \u201c<em>promised<\/em> to be a bridge President to the next generation. I liked that idea.\u201d [Emphasis in the original.]\n<p>\u201cI envisioned him defeating former President Donald Trump, stabilizing the country, and passing the torch to the next generation,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegrettably, that bridge collapsed last week. Witnessing Joe Biden struggle was heartbreaking. And we must forge a new path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also calling for Biden to step aside as nominee was Juli\u00e1n Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, and Barack Obama\u2019s secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2014 until the end of Obama\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the Democrats would do well to find a different candidate,\u201d Castro said in an MSNBC appearance, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/texas-democrat-rep-lloyd-doggett-calls-biden-withdraw\/story?id=111612397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who does not believe this is somewhat orchestrated is either 1) much less cynical than I am, 2) wrong or 3) both.<\/p>\n<p>We saw, in the hours following last week\u2019s debate performance, well-placed pundits who talked to well-placed anonymous Democrats who gave them various quotes that all tended to include the word \u201cpanic\u201d somewhere laced in.<\/p>\n<p>In the weekend that followed, three major organs of the Democratic media officially announced their editorial stance that Biden must step aside as nominee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nyt-drops-bomb-biden-debate-wants-race-not-man-four-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times,<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/06\/28\/editorial-joe-biden-donald-trump-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Tribune<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlson-drops-bombshell-unusually-good-source-obama-sabotage-biden-underway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the AJC might not have the name recognition that the Times or Tribune do nationally, it\u2019s worth noting that Georgia is a swing state and when the Democrat atop the ticket has lost the Journal-Constitution, he might as well concede he\u2019s lost Georgia. (And Biden is, in fact, losing in Georgia polling, 49-44 percent according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/us\/elections\/polls-president-georgia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> polling average.)<\/p>\n<p>In addition to formal media calls for Biden to step aside, other big-hame Democrats are clearly concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Joe Manchin, the retiring West Virginia Democrat, had to be talked out of going on the Sunday talk shows to say that Biden should step aside, according to ABC.<\/p>\n<p>Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who remains an elected representative, said Tuesday that, \u201cit\u2019s a legitimate question to say is this an episode or is this a condition\u201d during an appearance on MSNBC, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4751972-pelosi-biden-debate-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>. She also, however, would not go so far as to say that Biden <em>ought<\/em> to step down, merely that questions need to be asked.<\/p>\n<p>This, in other words, is a question of how much public pressure must be applied to Biden after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-kjp-snaps-reporter-asks-biden-disabled-rough-debate-know-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disastrous debate<\/a> in order to get him to step aside. The White House continues to say this was just a bad night and the president will continue to press on.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean that calls like Doggett\u2019s will stop. It just means the next person making them will be of a higher profile than Lloyd Doggett.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. No, former U.S. national security advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said that to the founder of The Western Journal, Floyd Brown.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Gen. Flynn\u2019s warning means that the 2024 election is the most important election for every single living American. If we lose this one to the wealthy elites who hate us, hate God, and hate what America stands for, we can only assume that 248 years of American history and the values we hold dear to our hearts may soon vanish.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The end game is here, and as Benjamin Franklin said, \u201cWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>All of this means that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, it\u2019s over. We have the platform, the journalists, and the experience to fight back hard, but Big Tech is strangling us through advertising blacklists, shadow bans, and algorithms. Did you know that we\u2019ve been blacklisted by 90% of advertisers? 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