New York Occasions columnist Maureen Dowd slammed high-ranking Democrats for pushing President Joe Biden to exit the 2024 presidential race in what she dubbed a “coup” — and likened the machinations to the assassination of Julius Caesar.
In her Saturday column known as “The Dems are delighted. However a coup continues to be a coup,” Dowd wrote forward of Monday’s Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago the place Dems are set to make their nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris official.
Dowd singled out former President Barack Obama, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries as a part of the highly effective coterie who performed a significant position in Biden’s resolution to drop out.
She claimed distinguished Democrats placed on a show of “grandiose flattery” of Biden after “knifing” him and claimed that First Woman Jill Biden and scandal-scarred son Hunter Biden have been “not fooled or appeased by” any of it.
Dowd additionally opined that Pelosi was cautious to partake within the “bloodletting” however had no selection with the polls indicating that Biden could be crushed by former President Trump in November.
“As a lot as she cared for the president, Pelosi would by no means select serving to the Home of Biden over serving to her beloved Home of Representatives. Their alienation of affection was clear in interviews she did to advertise her new ebook, ‘The Artwork of Energy,’” Dowd wrote.
“Probably the most ruthless and profitable tacticians in congressional historical past appeared sheepish about knifing her pal, and conflicted over whether or not to take credit score. Et tu, Nancy? Biden should have thought,” Dowd concluded.
The journalist wrote that in July because the media reported that top Democrats were urging Biden to exit the race, a plot unfolded to persuade the president to abandon his reelection bid – which he did on July 21.
“Sooner or later, when the polls cratered, Democratic mandarins determined to place the welfare of the occasion — and the nation — forward of the president’s ego, and cease catering to his self-regarding fantasy that he was the one one who may beat Donald Trump,” Dowd wrote.
Dowd skewered Democrats for experiencing “euphoria” and “ecstasy” forward of the Democratic Nationwide Conference.
“It’s going to be an excellent coronation — besides that everybody’s mad at each other,” she wrote. “Prime Democrats are bristling with resentments at the same time as they’re about to attempt to placed on a united entrance on the United Middle within the Windy Metropolis. A coterie of highly effective Democrats maneuvered behind the scenes to push an incumbent president out of the race.
“It wasn’t precisely ‘Julius Caesar’ in Rehoboth Seashore,” Dowd added. “Nevertheless it was a tectonic shift and, in fact, there have been going to be severe reverberations.”
She added: “Although it was the precise factor to do, as a result of Joe Biden was not going to have the ability to marketing campaign, a lot much less function president for an additional 4 years, in a completely very important method, it was a jaw-dropping putsch.”
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