Biden held disastrous rambling Zoom call with Democratic lawmakers and lost his train of thought multiple times with 50 were ready to dump him … an hour before Trump was shot
- Biden has faced a series of Democratic defections since his debate
- Conversation with Dems described as tense and ‘horrible’ ended an hour before shooting
Joe Biden held a train wreck of Zoom calls with Democratic lawmakers minutes before the attempted murder on Donald Trump – and the unrest may have saved the president from a flood of calls to end his re-election campaign.
Those who participated in the conversation called it ‘tense’ and ‘terrible’ and Biden reportedly had a particularly combative exchange with Rep. Jason Crow of Coloradoa former army ranger who served in Iraq And Afghanistan.
Things got so bad that “if the assassination attempt hadn’t happened an hour later, I can imagine 50 people on that Zoom conference would have been willing to speak out publicly against him,” one attendee told the Puck news channel.
The attendee described the president as “rash, dismissive of concerns, unable or unprepared to present a campaign strategy.”
“The conversation was worse than the debate,” another person told Puck. “He would ramble; he would start an answer, lose the thread, and then just say, ‘Whatever.’ He really couldn’t finish an answer. I lost a lot of respect for him.”
President Joe Biden held another chaotic phone call with restless House Democrats, participants say, ending an hour before the Trump shooting, an event that may have prevented much from coming to fruition
In the heated clash with Crow, Biden reportedly invoked his late son Beau and rattled off his foreign policy boasts. “Tell me something you’ve never done with your Bronze Star like my son,” he told lawmakers.
A video of the conversation seen by Puck showed Biden scolding the lawmaker, saying, “First of all, I think you’ve got it all wrong about national security. You saw what happened recently in terms of the meeting we had with NATO. I put NATO together. Name me a foreign leader who thinks I’m not the most effective foreign policy leader in the world. Tell me!”
The call, which ended around 5 p.m., followed days of Democrats raising concerns about Biden’s political viability, with about 20 people calling on him to step back. Biden held the call to try to reach out to the New Democratic Coalition, after holding other calls with Black and Hispanic lawmakers in an effort to connect after a series of public and private complaints about him from House Democrats.
But at 6:19 a.m., a gunman opened fire on the former president, instantly shaking up the race and sparking a media frenzy. Inside baseball coverage of Biden’s political fate was immediately overtaken by reports about the president’s health, the firefighter killed in the incident, what was called a “massive” security breach, and the political implications for Trump.
Biden had a tense exchange with Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, who was stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he cited both Crow’s and his late son Beau’s bronze stars
Saturday’s events coincided with a fundraising call in which California Rep. Adam Schiff said of Biden, “I think we lose if he’s our nominee.”
Biden’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
During another call with progressive lawmakers, Biden read a note that said, “Stay positive, you sound defensive.” Members claimed he read the letter “intentionally” as a joke, rather than a typical Ron Burgundy moment.
As Trump prepares for the third day of his convention, there are some allegations that concern him.
A group of about 20 Democrats in the House of Representatives signed a letter calling for a postponement of the “virtual roll call” that party leaders had set up to address a possible failure in Ohio.
The DNC announced The call would be postponed until the end of July, but not until the physical party congress.
Biden campaign co-chair Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware told MSNBC on Wednesday when asked about criticism: “Poll after poll, nationwide head-to-head polls, still show this within the margin of error in a head-to-head race. And bluntly, it’s July. There are months left. I don’t know of any presidential candidate in modern history who, because the polls move a few points one way or the other, gives up their presidential campaign in July.”