Why have Trump and the Republicans been so uncharacteristically quiet about Biden question?

[kentuck]

It does seem that it is mostly Democrats asking for Biden to step down?

Is it because they don't want to interfere with their enemy when they are destroying themselves?

Or is it that they see the danger for themselves?

Is it that they are afraid people may start to ask why Trump doesn't step down?

As Earl G so brilliantly stated in an earlier post about what to say if asked about why Biden doesn't step down, “I think Donald Trump should drop out of the race.”

If Joe Biden can be asked by some in his Party to drop out of the race, then surely a convicted felon can be asked to drop out?

Is that really why they are being so coy and quiet about the question being asked to Joe Biden?

[CousinIT]

1. Tinfoil hat potential theory

Yeah, criticize! It's a tinfoil hat, as I said, but it has me wondering.

Donald Trump has the numbers/contact of every billionaire who owns mainstream media outlets. Has he asked them to push Biden out of the race? It's a win-win for the media and Donald. They get ratings (all they care about), and Donald gets "Dems in Disarray" and a candidate who has never beat him and likely won't.

[peppertree]

44. Strong, the Poirot in you is.

I agree. That makes perfect sense: Repugs ARE pushing to have Biden step down - but through Big Media $urrogates (and the press-titutes that go along).

This way, they hope to get Biden to give up - thus next-to-guaranteeing a Trump win, while looking as though they're above the fray. Even magnanimous (which, as you know, they don't have a bone of in their body).

Throw the rock - but hide the hand. A Repug specialty.

[livetohike]

2. I'm going with they don't want to draw attention

to their own old guy who makes many verbal mistakes and is mentally ill. His time is coming though.

[kentuck]

3. All that and being a convicted felon also.

You are right.

[PatSeg]

23. Yes, good point

From their perspective, if your enemy is destroying itself, don't interfere, and be grateful that your own guy's actual shortcomings are being ignored.

I'm sure there is a big sigh of relief on their side as they don't have to watch Trump's bizarre, incoherent ramblings on television every day. For them, they must constantly live in dread of the next shoe falling.

[Irish_Dem]

4. They are not really being quiet and doing nothing.

We can see their propaganda machine is working overtime with anti-biden media coverage.
Also online bots and trolls hitting every one with nonsense.

[kentuck]

5. I think it is mostly the elected political class...

That is so protective of Trump.

Yes, they have their trolls and bots working for them. I think we see them quite often here on DU.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Yes the GOP political machine at work.

Their goal is power and money and they believe Trump is the one who can get it for them.
Also they are guilty of crimes like Trump is, and he offers protection, at least they hope.
Trump protects himself.

Oh yes the trolls and bots are interesting.
I have been noticing them across various liberal/Dem online boards.

They are all the same right now.
Pretending to deliver a liberal message, but actually quite angry and divisive.
I think they are young, and know little about Dems.

One stated that no one knows who (pulitzer prize) Eugene Robinson is.
It was a fake name. And that New Hampshire was a red state.

The reaction is interesting. Some Dems recognize right away who they are.
And tell them to eff off. Others love them.

[Tickle]

6. They don't need to chime in

We are doing their work for them.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Because they know they're gonna lose, no matter 'Who.'

President Joe Biden will clobber the GOP. Vice President Kamala Harris and a bunch of other Dems can, too.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

39. Love you.

[DemMedic]

8. Never interrupt your enemy while they are destroying themselves

[forthemiddle]

9. Maybe they feel that they have a better chance beating Biden

If he backs out, on his own, I feel that the Dems will rally around Kamala. That will also put the media spotlight on the groundbreaking candidate and at least for awhile will be a net positive.
I honestly don’t get the anxiety many have about the possibility of Biden backing out. Especially if he can convince people that it is his decision, and he wasn’t pushed out.
Unfortunately that scenario is becoming more unlikely every day. He is digging in more and more.
The only guarantee is that each and every stumble by Biden will now be the spotlight, and that helps Trump.

[Jarqui]

16. I think so

A shiny new Dem candidate will not have Biden's age issues or whatever else they're trying to pin on him - like the border.
The new Dem candidate can run on the positive things Biden & Democrats have done and they've got all of Trump's baggage to use against Trump.
The GOP smear machine has spent 4 years smearing Biden. All of a sudden, they have to come up with a completely new strategy of smearing? I'm sure they will but they know it will be a lot tougher and their candidate becomes the one with all the ugly baggage.

That is probably why they're cooling it in my opinion. They want Biden to stay in the race.

[TheFarseer]

10. I know many republicans

And they mostly want him to stay in because they think he will be easy to beat. Please note this is not my opinion. I’m pretty much neutral on the question.

[kentuck]

12. That is possible.

The polls would indicate why they might think that.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Going into RNC they're no longer fighting uphill me boys

So I think they got what they wanted so far, for now.

[magicarpet]

13. Team trDUMP might have been told by their handlers to go soft on the - Biden Out Message

Why cast aspersions on Biden when the blowback for trDUMP could be catastrophic.

Let team trDUMP take a back seat to the Biden is old, frail, and incoherent.

Let the Main Stream Media relentlessly pound and pound away at those issues. trDUMP plants the seeds of questioning Biden's fitness as president. Then team trDUMP walks away unscathed - as the MSM gabs hold of the mantle while tossing Biden into the wood chipper - grinding his political ambitions up into red slushy ground up rancid meat.

The AmeriKKKan Oligarchs own the U.S. MSM,.. they are using the MSM to torpedo Biden's chances for a second term. What a fucking propaganda machine they have craftly constructed.

These Hyper-Capitalists crave a Fascist Theocratic state of governance so they can maximize their ability to profit off of and plunder the United States Treasury.

Fuck American Democracy, fuck consensus of opinions, fuck congressional debate, fuck collaboration..... fuck compromise... fuck freedom.... fuck your ideas...
on and on and on..... THEY WANT IT ALL FOR THEMSELVES ALONE.

Fuck you, fuck me, fuck all of us - these Nazis mean business in their relentless grab for total power. Negotiating and compromising with pinko liberals infuriates them to no end. If you are not a fully compliant Nazi - then you will be rid from the political system henceforth, forcibly or otherwise,... your choice.

[magicarpet]

20. Nazi - Hitler Youth Choir - boy sings,... "Tomorrow Belongs to Me".

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[sop]

14. This hasn't been some grassroots uprising by Democrats across the country demanding Joe step down.

I don't see union members, women's groups or civil rights organizations demanding Joe quit the race. This entire effort has been spearheaded by Republicans, using corporate media as their blunt instrument, to take down a president who won't go along with cuts to a wide range of federal programs and deficit-exploding tax giveaways for the rich.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

40. Absolutely.

CNN debate "moderator" Jake Tapper tweeted that Democratic governors all told him they want President Biden out.

He deleted it when it was pointed out they hadn't even met. Not just a rat fucker; a STUPID rat fucker.

[Lovie777]

15. If all fails in ousting Pres Biden.......................

the RWers will pursue the 25th Amendment which in turn will backfire as well.

Their candidate qualifies for it in reality.

But nevertheless, they are obsessed with Pres Biden.

[birdographer]

17. Maybe they are backing off a bit

because they gave Biden the immunity that Donald wanted and got. Which means Biden could probably be pushed or talked into using it against Donald. Pretty sure he could jail him till the election. Maybe they don't want to poke the bear now that they gave the bear some superpowers.

[TBF]

24. I think this is a big part of it - they know what their handpicked Court has done, and Project 2025

is now starting to be known. It's smart of them to just sit back and let democrats fight. EarlG is correct - we need to solidly defend our candidates & turn the attention on them.

[et tu]

28. most likely a large part of the

'quiet' part which is surprising given how cf 45
rants and screams everyday but king biden for
a few months has a nice ring to it. super brandon
to the rescue! all powers bestowed by the crazy sc-
they asked for it and are banking on joe being honorable
and just standing by.

[Patton French]

19. Unfortunately, many democrats are doing their work for them. NT

[DFW]

21. I think they figure it this way:

Why should they spend ANY energy/money/effort on this while the press and several prominent Democrats are doing their work for them?

They can always decide to end their free vacation when our „loyal“ internal opposition quiets down (or, God forbid, is successful in their efforts). A victory margin of 8 million votes is quite a lead to blow (and no, I haven‘t forgotten the EC), especially with Joe Biden‘s stellar performance record in office, an advantage he didn‘t have last time.

[DownriverDem]

22. Who are those folks?

They are handing the election to trump.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. There is a small group

who have long-simmering "grievances" (and some have more recent issues related to the administration's stance on the I/P issue).

E.g., the soon-to-be 84 year old James Clyburn is still pissed off that his pick for the SCOTUS was not selected. Meanwhile his own state gets redder and redder.

What it shows is how shallow some politicians are.

[oldmanlynn]

25. Because this is the circular firing squad Obama mentioned

Republicans only need get out of the way. Small things like this cause massive divisions in the Democratic Party tent. If our candidate farts wrong we stay home snd dont vote.

We have to stay united almost like republicans are. No matter what their candidate does tgey stick with them

[Dawgman49]

26. No need to

MSM, especially msnbc doing a smear campaign against Joe

[Farmer-Rick]

29. They have not been quiet

Fox has all sorts of articles and news clips about Biden dropping out

Recent golf course interviews with Trump have him calling Biden disgusting and rude names then following it up with saying Biden is going to drop out.

The topic has been on every right wing media platform available AND on so called mainstream outlets AND on so called left wing platforms. It has been everywhere including the right wing.

This is what's called a media frenzy. You know it is because most all media platforms are talking about this. If it was a grassroots Dem driven issue, Dems wouldn't have waited 4 months before the election to take action to get someone else.

The stupidly poorly paid Russian trolls are spreading it. The Russian bots are spewing it all over Twitter and any right-winger asked say that Biden is stepping down.

Just because some Dems got manipulated by this media frenzy too does not make it a Dem issue. People are easily manipulated. It works that's why they do it.

It's all one big con.

[ramapo]

30. Democrats doing Trump's work

When your opponent is devouring their own it is good practice to just sit back, watch and enjoy the show.

[CousinIT]

31. Maybe because they planned it. n/t

[madibella]

32. All their work is being done for them by (some) Democrats.

No need to waste their energy. It’s all being handled perfectly for them.

[shrike3]

33. Heritage Foundation isn't being silent.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-biden-presidential-race-replacing-biden-georgia-nevada-wisconsin-1919531

[Silent Type]

34. Reminds me of "Please proceed governor."

[Martin Eden]

35. Rethugs don't want to shift attention away from the negative press President Biden is getting

There is potential advantage to letting the Biden campign grab the spotlight.

[LisaL]

36. Why should they interfere when democrats are destroying themselves

just fine?

[MorbidButterflyTat]

37. They don't have to say anything

Bots, trolls, DINOs, backyard beer and barbeque political pundits, Uncle Fred, co-worker Annie, book club philosophers, bowling league buddies, etc., are all doing their dirty MAGAt work for them, mostly for FREE. It's sickening.






Edited to add: It wouldn't surprise me if the majority of unnamed "Democratic sources," are actually MAGAts.

[rwild1967]

38. They have been

Gleefully watching the Democrats self destruct.

And it needs to stop.

If we would just shut up tRump will say something stupid and this will all be over.

[Goodheart]

41. Why doesn't the OP include Occam's Razor? That they think Biden is their best chance at winning?

[padah513]

43. Napoleon Bonaparte - Don't interfere when your enemy is destroying himself

And we've been doing a pretty good job of it for a couple of weeks. I hope people are starting to realize that our nominee is President Biden and we need to coalesce behind him because we only have two choices. It's either President Biden and democracy or Trump and autocracy and the people behind him want to make this nation into the American Taliban. God help women if he wins.

[Progressive dog]

45. As many have said

This has been the story of the day for nine days now. The MAGA don't need to do more right now.

[BradBo]

46. They know anyone else would be way worse for Trump. Way more cognitive.

Bidens fine it’s just that he sounds old is all. He’s way smarter than Trump and way better of a statesman.