As Joe Biden struggles to contain the fallout from his poor debate performance, a gulf is widening between how the president’s most inner circle and the rest of the Democratic Party — including some in his campaign and White House — view his political viability.
Even as he worked to reassure nervous lawmakers and donors this week while playing host to world leaders at NATO’s annual summit, Biden faced mounting pressure over his candidacy from a growing group of Democratic lawmakers and prominent donors urging him to drop out or consider doing so.
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Biden’s Fundraising Currently Rated ‘Disastrous’
As we’ve discussed here previously, one of the most instructive indicators of how a political campaign is doing is found in their fundraising numbers. Those are even more indicative than polling numbers. People don’t like flushing their money into something they see as a lost cause and they don’t seek to purchase influence from someone who probably won’t be in a position to do anything for them. Using that rule of thumb, the outlook is far from brilliant for Team Biden at the moment.
