Nancy Pelosi comments today

[Sympthsical]

75. This is so weird

I truly think the leadership are having private conversations that are very different than what gets said publicly.

Schumer had a bit of this as well. When some senators expressed their doubts, his reply wasn't something like, "Well, the President has made his decision, so we should support him." His response was, "If you feel that strongly, why don't you go over there and tell him?"

Which is something a boss would say when they're letting you know, "I'm not going to be the one to do it, but I'm not against it either."

It's like they're trying to finesse his departure from the race, but they think a direct approach would be counterproductive in some way, that the harder they push the more firmly the President will dig in. But, if that's the case, I'm not sure this approach is any more productive. It's as Rep. Ritchie Torres says (my favorite of the representatives):

The drip, drip, drip of public statements of no confidence only serve to weaken a President who has been weakened not only by the debate but also by the debate about the debate.

Weakening a weakened nominee seems like a losing strategy for a presidential election. The piling-on is not so much solving a problem as much as it is creating and compounding one.

The process by which we decide how to move forward matters as much as the decision itself.

If leadership is going to push him, then push him already.