I wrote this the other day…
The media has a constant drum beat of "Democrats going to the White House to convince Biden to step down" - they float that idea every day, but that's not happening. There are 5 House. Dems and Mark Warner on that side, but 265 Dems including Pelosi, Clyburn, Schumer and Jeffries on the other side. We aren't having a "come to Jesus" moment. Not yet. He only took a 3 point hit in the polls, he can earn that back.
It's really amazing to me how arrogant they are with this narrative. The answer is "No." I think Biden needs to rally himself and barnstorm. We need to reject this narrative and support Biden.
He doesn't have a neurological problem. He's doesnt need alzheimer's medicine - it was a cold and a bad mic mix. If he can't recover by the convention - fine - then we'll see if a "Draft Harris" movement has real legs.
The Trumpers completely reject anything the media says. They don't care about the crimes he's committed, his Grand Jury indictments, the civil cases he's lost or even his conviction. They don't care about the Fake Electors, "Find me 11,000 votes", the Insurrection, Project 2025, or Agenda 47. They just keep going and blow anything the media says off.
I think it's time we learned how to do that and think for ourselves.
This morning Joe Biden called into Morning Joe, he had a lot to say.
Let me also point out again, that it’s already been documented that Biden had a full physical — including a neurological exam — in February.
One evolving narrative among the press is that the Biden administration “concealed” the truth of Biden’s cognitive state—which supposedly justifies their righteous anger. Bull****. This is another example of a double standard applied by a media that is intent on driving Joe Biden out of the race—damn the facts!
Joe Biden has been transparent with the American people about his health—which cannot be said about Trump. Remember Trump's unexplained visit to Walter Reed for a treatment that remains secret to this day? Or showing up to a debate in 2020 knowing he had tested positive for Covid but concealed that fact from Joe Biden, the debate moderators, and the American public? Or having a doctor release a statement about Trump's health that was dictated by Trump? Or when the White House physician provided false information about Trump's vital statistics—like his weight—and said that Trump might be the first president to live to be 200?
Amid all the calls for “cognitive tests” for Biden—but not Trump—journalists are committing malpractice by failing to note that President Biden released a detailed summary of his annual physical in February of this year. The full report is here: Health-Summary-2.28.pdf (whitehouse.gov). The examination included consultations with neurological experts at Walter Reed hospital. I urge you to read the entire report and consider how you would measure up to such a battery of tests!
This is the neurological section from the report.
An extemely detailed neurological exam was again reassuring in that there were no findings which would be consistent with an or other central neurological disorder, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s or ascending lateral sclerosis, nor are there any signs of cervical myelopathy.
So that’s that then.
This is why Biden had this incredulous stare when Stephanopoulos asked him to have an “outside examination.” He already had one at Walter Reed, and the results are already posted on the White House website.
So Joe called up Joe.
"He's just a liar!" Biden told MSNBC. "And he hasn't done a damned thing since the debate. He's been riding around in his golf cart for 10 days, down in Mar-a-Lago."
Biden made his appearance just as his team released a defiant letter promising to pursue his presidential campaign despite calls that he step aside.
On Monday morning, Biden told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski he was not compelled by those calls because he felt they came from pundits repeatedly wrong about how elections play out.
"I am not going anywhere," Biden said. "I wouldn't be running if I didn't absolutely believe that I am the best candidate to beat Donald Trump in 2024."
And he had a message for the Democrats baying for him to quit the presidential race.
“Run against me," he said. "Challenge me at the convention."
Joe asked Biden to answer to Stephanopoulos that even he lost he’ll feel give if he “Gives it his all.”
Biden responded that it was a hypothetical — “I haven’t lost. I’m not gonna lose. I beat him last time, i’ll beat him again.”
In the letter he sent to Congress Biden pointed out that he is the nominee because he’s received the votes — are we going to ignore that? Are we going to ignore the will of the voters?
After this, Joe came out and slammed the NY Times for calling for Biden to step down.
In a long monologue on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough took aim at the New York Times — and the media in general — for being manipulated by "rightwing stooges" to overanalyze every word and move Joe Biden makes.
To make his point, he focused on what he called the NYT's "syntax blog" which is tasked with poring over every Biden evidence in search of something to seize upon to make the case that he is sundowning.
Jumping right into it, the MSNBC host stated by admitting Biden "had a horrible day, absolutely dismal debate," before going on to point out, "That's sort of the five-alarm fire the media went to."
"I think a week later, you know, now that the New York Times has a syntax blog that is following his syntax in radio interviews in Wisconsin, it's gotten ridiculous and over the top," he laughed. "You actually have a guy sitting down in Mar-a-Lago, again, that's told lie after lie after lie after lie."
"Yeah, the reporting has gotten crazy and over the top because, once again, and I love this about the press, like, mainstream media, they're like, 'Oh, no, they're saying we're unfair. They're saying that we have hidden this.' Who hid it?" he exclaimed. "For all the right-wing stooges saying the mainstream media hid this, like I said, I probably spent more time with Joe Biden than most reporters. Talked to him about in-depth foreign policy ... the guy was completely there."
And as far as the polls go — Joe may have lost (temporarily) some Dems after last week, but he gained back independents who were appalled at Trump’s performance and he only trails by 2 points.
There’s room to move up here.