Elections often come with big surprises, but if July was competing for the most hectic news cycle during campaign season, so far it would take home the Olympic gold.
It hasn’t even been 30 days since President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump stepped foot on the debate stage at CNN studios in Atlanta on June 27.
Immediately following the Biden-Trump debate, leftist pundits on CNN and MSNBC opined that Democrats may need a new candidate for the Nov. 5 presidential election. And thus began a political whirlwind.
Here’s a time line:
July 2: Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas becomes the first congressional Democrat to call for Biden to step aside as the party’s standard-bearer in November.
July 10: Actor George Clooney, a major Democrat Party donor and fundraiser, publishes an op-ed in The New York Times calling for Biden to drop out of the…