Morning Jolt: The Biden Family Tries the Ralph Northam Strategy

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

July 08 2024

The Biden Family Tries the Ralph Northam Strategy

On the menu today: The American people don't deserve to be in this mess. When they elected Joe Biden in 2020 — after Biden pledged, "I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else" — they assumed that Joe, Jill, and everyone around them recognized the difficulty of the job, the supreme responsibilities it entails, and the importance of America's commander in chief possessing a sound mind, reliable memory, and keen judgment. And now, with its joyous era of free travel, state dinners, Vogue covers, and potential pardons at risk, the Biden family is attempting the desperate stratagem of just battening down the hatches, betting that Democrats will lack the nerve to remove the president, and just waiting out the storm. This is the Ralph Northam strategy. It's a spectacularly selfish, reckless, risky, destructive, and legacy-ruining tactic: effectively declaring that the Bidens will only leave office kicking and screaming, their fingernails digging into the carpet of the Oval Office as they're dragged out.

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