Donors Game Out A Kamala Harris Candidacy As Potential Joe Biden Exit Looms; VP, Katzenberg On Call Today With Contribut

[pstokely]

https://deadline.com/2024/07/kamala-harris-top-donors-pick-1236015961/#comments

“Trump’s speech was sh*t, a mess, but that’s not a good reason to get caught up in keeping Biden,” one deep-pocketed agency exec said this morning after the former president’s low-energy, record-long RNC remarks Thursday night. “The polls are too tight and getting worse for us.”

While some donors have misgivings about Harris, there also is some skepticism that any other Democrat could wage a successful campaign to challenge her, even if Biden releases his delegates but does not endorse. After three weeks of Democratic infighting, the pressure will be on to rally around Harris.

“I don’t see how somebody else runs without tearing the country apart,” said one top Democratic supporter. “If the goal is to beat Donald Trump, there should not be someone else in this race.”

That said, the idea of a change at the top of the ticket is being viewed by some with a tad more optimism following Trump’s meandering acceptance speech that, while riveting at the start as he talked of his assassination attempt, reverted to one of his standard rally speeches by the end. “It’s actually Trump’s nightmare, because we are doing reality TV better than he is,” the supporter said.

[LW1977]

1. Says who?

[pstokely]

2. the donor class

they know better they than us serfs who have to sit through 30 minutes of previews at theaters

[newdeal2]

5. Look at the last quote

They are treating this as a reality tv production. Unreal

[usonian]

3. Anyone who thinks that Joe Biden can't beat this sack of shit

IS ON ACID OR HAS AN AGENDA
• Don't regulate crypto
• Hands OFF AI
• No tax on billionaires.

I call out tech bros wagging the dog with money laundered from Musk, Thiel, Andreesen and Horwitz. They took over the GOP.

The tech bros are coming.
The tech bros are coming.

[Frasier Balzov]

4. Why wouldn't Biden endorse Harris?

He chose her to succeed him.

She'll be looking to him for his help in every way he knows how.

And he knows a lot of ways to help.

[BannonsLiver]

6. Biden still wields a lot of power

If he decided to get out he could tell these people it’s Harris or you can go pound sand, I have the delegates and will stay in the race. And in my view, anyone but Harris is too much of a deviation from what people voted for in the primaries. Harris is part of the team and not an outsider. Anyone else would not have that distinction.

[Frasier Balzov]

7. You just know that this plan and her readiness

are somewhere right now being called Preparation H.

Let's just get that out of the way!