No one can doubt that Biden will not be president by January of next year. The question now is whether he’ll even continue trying.
And a Biden campaign insider just leaked a major announcement we’ve all been waiting for.
The Biden campaign has been facing significant difficulties in attracting donations following President Biden’s underwhelming debate performance against former President Donald Trump, according to a report.
Contributions from large donors could be down by more than half this month and are lower across the board, as reported by NBC News.
“It’s already disastrous,” a source close to the re-election effort told NBC News about the state of fundraising for the Biden campaign.
“The money has absolutely shut off,” another insider added.
Initially, the Biden campaign touted $14 million raised on debate day and the morning after the 81-year-old president’s June 27 showdown with Trump, noting its single best hour of fundraising since Biden announced his run for re-election last April, occurring between 11 p.m. and midnight after the debate.
However, the campaign’s post-debate fundraising surge quickly dried up, with one source telling NBC News that donors were left with a “negative” impression after a recent fundraising call with the president.
“The call seemed so contrived to people; I don’t think they buy it,” the source said.
Adding to the fundraising difficulties is the uncertainty over whether Biden will remain in the race as he faces calls to end his re-election effort.
“You can’t reach out to someone because someone could say, ‘Geez, I didn’t know, he has dementia,’” one of Biden’s top bundlers told NBC News.
The report on the campaign’s fundraising woes comes just a day shy of the “two-week grace period” that donors reportedly gave the president in the wake of his poor debate performance.
Donors expected a slide in Biden’s polling numbers post-debate, but further decline after two weeks would become problematic and difficult for donors to stomach, a source privy to a call with top campaign contributors told The New York Post earlier this month.
Oscar-winning actor George Clooney, who helped raise some $30 million for the president less than a month ago, called on Biden to end his re-election campaign in a New York Times op-ed published Wednesday, arguing that the octogenarian incumbent “cannot win” against Trump.
The Biden campaign did not respond to The New York Post’s request for comment.
A spokesperson for the campaign told NBC News that its report of fundraising being down was “not accurate.”
But why would anyone believe what the campaign says?
They told us that Joe Biden has not had any mental decline until he proved to the world all on his own that he struggles to choke out a sentence.
No…they will only give us information that has already been incontrovertibly proven in the public sphere by someone else.
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