Washington Examiner / Magazine
July 31, 2024 Issue
July 31, 2024 Print Edition
Cover Story
How Obama and other Democratic Party bosses beat Biden
Blame those conservatives who insisted so loudly and for so long that it was going to happen. Blame the conspiracy theorists, who ended up being right once again when the conspiracy turned out to be real.  Thanks to them, we were all too ready to accept it when it happened — to accept that Joe Biden would not be the Democrats’ nominee in 2024. (Dean MacAdam for the Washington Examiner) But Biden’s decision to abandon an already-won renomination contest and snuff out his own political career is a far more shocking development than anyone is giving it credit for. To be sure, Biden’s career was probably over either way. Even before his disastrous June 27 debate, polls showed him headed for defeat. Biden trailed in nearly every state-level poll taken this calendar year in North...

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