Democratic insiders: "we are so fucked right now"

by Gaegan Toddard

As Joe Biden starts to come out of hiding only to embarrass himself, an effort to oust the former VP is expanding exponentially. Over the weekend #DropOutBiden has become of the most popular hashtags in recent social media history.

Former Democratic Presidential aides, significant political players, social scientists, and tens of thousands of others are banding together in the face of growing evidence that Joe Biden did, in fact, sexually assault Tara Reade.

More alarming for Democratic Party elders is the fact that their internal polling continues to show Democratic voter enthusiasm to be at a decades low number right now. As one of their internal pollsters stated just this week: "With Biden at the top of the ticket, Democrats can kiss the Senate and possibly even the House goodbye. Many Democrats just don't think he is worth the effort, and we are not just talking Bernie progressives. The lack of enthusiasm is across the board."

Meanwhile, the same Democratic pollsters are tracking the opposite thing happening on the Republican side. That same pollster explains: "Conventional wisdom is that all of this controversy surrounding Covid-19, all the fighting between Trump and Governors has damaged the President. But our polling suggests the opposite. Both Trump and his voters thrive on this sort of aggressive conflict and Republican voter enthusiasm is reaching a fever peak. They see him as they always do, as being treated unfairly. This motivates them all the more to vote for Trump come hell or high water."  

Another Democratic strategists went on to explain that he felt that the growing number of people protesting or otherwise defying local orders have already concluded that Democrats are using the Covid-19 crisis to provide an excuse for heavy handed government. As these protests grow, and the conflict between citizens and state governments continue to heat up, the Joe Biden message of more Government and more Government control will likely backfire.

As a high ranking DNC strategist stated: "Democrats wasted a tremendous opportunity to show the country that more government would be good in a time of crisis. But instead, the message they have provided is one of our own federal medical experts, our own federal resources, and our federal response as being incompetent and incapable. While they had hoped this would have harmed Trump, it instead is harming American's trust in the federal government to come through for them. Americans are suddenly more trusting of their state and local governments, which plays into the long standing Republican stronghold of State's rights. It's as if Democrats somehow come across as telling Americans that our federal government is incompetent, but we need more of this incompetence moving forward."

So what the Democrats need at the top of the ticket is someone capable of playing the sort of 3D chess that will be necessary to make their way through this ultra-complicated political environment.

"Biden has some tremendous strategic issues right now and is facing a front wind right now in a lot of political areas. The allegations from Tara Reade are not going away and Joe Biden has developed zero strategy for addressing them. People are questioning our reliance on our Federal Government, and Joe want's to continue to feed into that. He's never been a great politician, or someone with good political instincts. As much as people are trying to help him, he doesn't seem to be getting any better." stated a former Clinton aid who choose to stay anonymous.