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President Joe Biden's poor debate performance on Thursday night appears to be turning into a bigger party revolt. 'For Biden's own good and the good of the country, he should step aside immediately,' major Democratic donor and former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson said 'The fact that it has now been three days and Biden has done nothing to reassure us confirms my worst fears.'
Days after the President struggled to hold his train of thought and tailed off mid-answer into incomprehensible gibberish during the CNN debate, left-wing benefactors are still up in arms.
On Saturday, Biden appeared at a New York fundraiser in a glitzy Long Island beach town and, according to one attendee, read a simple 15-minute speech off a teleprompter, before leaving without taking any questions.
'Doing that for the next five months is not going to be enough,' the fundraiser guest said, stressing that Biden's understandably anxious supporters deserve reassurance that he is capable of defeating Donald Trump in November.
But later on Saturday night, Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison and Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez only further stoked concerns on a conference call with wavering DNC members.
The most discouraging news for those who want Biden to bow out came from Chavez Rodriguez on Saturday. She claimed that if Biden were to step aside then only Vice President Kamala Harris would be able to use the funds raised by his campaign.
The $91.2 million collected by the Biden-Harris ticket as of May 31 is not transferrable to any other candidate, according to Federal Election Commission rules. So perhaps the party would find it's hands tied.
A distressing thought, indeed, for party officials who well know that Harris has routinely polled as the most unpopular VP in history.
As one exasperated senior figure observed: 'The irony is that anybody but Kamala Harris would have a better-than-even chance of beating Donald Trump!'
