In an
effort to stave off the calls for him to drop out of the race for U.S.
President, in a letter to congressional
Democrats, Joe
Biden boldly declared,
We had a Democratic nomination
process and the voters have spoken clearly and decisively. I received over 14
million votes, 87% of the votes cast across the entire nominating process. I
have nearly 3,900 delegates, making me the presumptive nominee of our party by
a wide margin.
This was a process open to anyone who
wanted to run. Only three people chose to challenge me…
As a
follow-up to that letter, on Monday morning, July 8, Biden called in to one of
his favorite Democrat shills, Morning Joe, and told Joe Scarborough and
his meager audience,
Well look — Democrats — Joe, let me
say it this way, the reason I’ve been on the road so much, all over the
country, while Trump is riding around in a golf cart, filling out his golf cart
before, golf cart before he even hits the ball — but anyway, he hasn’t been
anywhere in 10 days, I’ve been all over the country, No. 1. And I’ve gone over the country for several reasons,
one, to make sure my instinct was right about the party still wanting me to be
the nominee. And all the data, all the data shows that the average Democrat out
there who voted, 14 million of them who’ve voted for me, still want me
to be the nominee, No. 1. [Empasis mine.]
In other words, Joe Biden is telling his Democrat critics
to “back off” because he won. And he’s not wrong! As Mary Rooke at the Daily
Caller points out,
All fifty states have voted in party
primaries. The Democrats chose President Joe Biden, and the Republicans voted
in former President Donald Trump as their candidate. At this point, while still an important part of the
official process, the party conventions are merely a formality. But that is not
stopping the Democrat Party from attempting a coup against its voters to
install their preferred candidate, who is no longer Biden.
Yes, Joe Biden won the 2024 Democrat primaries. However,
what he is—and most others are—failing to point out is that he won a largely
rigged process. As early as February of 2023, astute observers of the political
scene were aware of the Democrat Party’s efforts to ensure it was Joe Biden who
was their nominee for the 2024 election. On February 5, 2023, the Editorial
Board of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), penned “Rigging the
Primaries for Biden.” They wrote,
The Democratic National Committee
voted Saturday to revise the party’s nominating calendar to put South Carolina
first in line, upending a half century of tradition. The Iowa caucuses, which
have been first since 1972, will be relegated to the back of the bus. After South Carolina’s primary on Feb. 3, 2024, the new
order will be: New Hampshire and Nevada both on Feb. 6, followed by Georgia on
Feb. 13 and Michigan on Feb. 27.
All of this is being done at the request—please don’t say
orders—of the Biden White House. South Carolina rescued Mr. Biden’s candidacy
in 2020 from defeat by Bernie Sanders, and black voters in that state and
Georgia make up a large part of the Democratic electorate and Mr. Biden’s core
support. Michigan’s primary was held on March 10 in 2020 and is another state
where he won.
The DNC pushed Iowa and New Hampshire back in their primary
calendar because those two states were perceived as likely not giving Biden
necessary political momentum. As the WSJ put it,
The main benefit of the early New Hampshire and Iowa
contests is that they give voters a chance at close-up vetting, and they give
long-shot candidates a chance to elevate an issue or emerge from obscurity. The
winners don’t always go on to be nominated, much less take the White House, but
they are a different kind of candidate test than debates and TV advertising.
The risk for Democrats is that by greasing the wheels
for Mr. Biden they will miss such a signal from the electorate. The polls are
showing that even most Democrats prefer another nominee in 2024.
In June of 2023, ABC News wrote
a piece detailing how Democrats were going to keep Biden from primary
debates. Former CEO and co-founder of Twitter (now X) Jack Dorsey was quoted as
saying, “Open the Democrat primaries and debates. This isn’t fair to anyone.” The
same ABC News piece also noted, “When asked by Politico in August 2022 about
how they might deal with a primary challenge, DNC executive director Sam
Cornale put it bluntly: ‘We're with Biden. Period.’”
So as early as 2022, the DNC had made up its mind about
Biden. Just
this week, NBC chief political analyst Chuck Todd said that a “senior
cabinet member” told him two years ago that they don’t think Biden can
continue as President. Two years ago was 2022. The DNC had to have had this
information as well, or they sure should have! Yet, they chose to go with Joe
Biden.
In September of 2023, liberal publication Vox felt
the need to explain “Why Biden isn’t getting a credible primary
challenger.” Also in September of 2023, for the WSJ, Robert
F. Kennedy Jr. wrote “The Democratic Party Rigs the Primaries.” In January
of 2024, The Washington Post (see
here to avoid a paywall) ran “How the DNC challenger-proofed the primaries
for Biden” by Jim Geraghty.
There were significant
accusations in 2020 as well that the Democrat Party rigged their primaries
to favor Joe Biden. Now just who is it that is the real “threat to democracy”
in America?! The Democrat Party has no one to blame but themselves when it
comes to the position they are now in with Joe Biden. Though they regularly
hail themselves as “defenders of democracy,” it should come as no surprise that
the political party who has little issue with election rigging now wants to
engage in more election tampering and install a chosen candidate to replace Joe
Biden.
And never forget, the cover-up of Joe Biden’s significant
health issues by the drive-by media is also a means of election rigging. The
drive-bys also share the blame for a mentally and physically disabled man now
serving as President of the United States.
(See this column at American Thinker.)
Copyright 2024, Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
www.trevorgrantthomas.com
Trevor is the author of the The Miracle
and Magnificence of America
trevorgrantthomas@gmail.com