No one wants to be on the record stating the obvious but Democrats are truly worried that Joe Biden is doomed. Nothing they have tried to turn him into a winner in time for this election has worked. It’s starting to dawn on them that they aren’t going to turn this one around with a clever new ad campaign. But again, no one wants to say it out loud.
All year, Democrats had been on a joyless and exhausting grind through the 2024 election. But now, nearly five months from the election, anxiety has morphed into palpable trepidation, according to more than a dozen party leaders and operatives. And the gap between what Democrats will say on TV or in print, and what they’ll text their friends, has only grown as worries have surged about Biden’s prospects.
“You don’t want to be that guy who is on the record saying we’re doomed, or the campaign’s bad or Biden’s making mistakes….
