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Joe Biden reportedly more open to calls for him to step aside as candidate (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Joe Biden has reportedly become more open in recent days to hearing arguments that he should step aside as the Democratic presidential candidate after the party’s two main congressional leaders told him they doubted his ability to beat Donald Trump.

While continuing to insist he will be the party’s nominee in November, the president has reportedly started asking questions about negative polling data and whether Vice-President Kamala Harris, considered the favourite to replace him if were to withdraw, fares better.

The indications of a possible rethink come after Biden tested positive on Wednesday for Covid-19, forcing him to isolate for several days while curtailing a campaigning visit to Nevada that had been part of a drive to show his candidacy was very much alive.

It also coincides with fresh polling data showing that he now trails Trump by two points in Virginia, a state he won by 10 points in 2020.

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

yeah how dare biden push for a ceasefire while literally building new infrastructure to go around israel and get aid to palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That dock never worked right and they've removed it. For the record, if the US military did a standard aid operation it would be fine. It's his insistence on this special system that fucked it.

Other than that, he's completely blocked any actual Leahy Law or Foreign Assistance Act Human Rights reviews and consistently repeats IDF propaganda that's quickly debunked by literally every other stakeholder.

Every cease fire he's pushed, he blames Hamas for the failure, even though Hamas publicly says they want it and Israel publicly says they don't. When Hamas actually refuses, you find out the "deal" is to release the hostages in return for not starving to death.

So yes. It's pretty fucking bad.

[–] nulluser 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You left out the part about sending more bombs to Israel, to replace the ones used to kill civilians, knowing full well they'd be used to kill more civilians.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

congress does that; and it's been the policy of every president.... and the last president was impeached for withholding aid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Except in this case it's actually against the law to continue supplying military aid

Except under circumstances specified in this section, no security assistance may be provided to any country the government of which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You missed the US repeatedly voting against Palestine getting state hood in the UN and ceasefire.

https://time.com/6452308/us-votes-against-un-gaza-ceasefire-reactions/

https://apnews.com/article/un-vote-palestinian-membership-us-veto-8d8ad60d8576b5ab9e70d2f8bf7e2881

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The un ambassador reports to the president and the secretary of state. Though many foreign policy decisions are made by congress, the UN is not one of them. The choice to directly oppose the the two-state solution in the UN is entirely a choice of biden's executive branch.