It is crazy that Democrats are suppressing any dissent from inside their own party. Joe Manchin was going to call for Biden to withdraw. Then Dems turned up the heat.
“Nobody wants to be the first one to knife Julius Caesar,” one Democratic Party official said.
Manchin’s reversal illustrates Democrats’ rapid tamping down of internal dissent over the 81-year-old Biden remaining their presumptive nominee as the campaign and party leaders argue that only the president and his family can decide his political future. Urging drastic action before examining post-debate polling is unwise, party leaders have argued, and Democrats are aware that being the first prominent Democratic official to do so could come with a political cost.