Report: A Secret Society of Pro-Biden Republicans Aims to Take the J-Man to Glorytown
So howās that Biden campaign going? Well, in addition to locking in many Democrat-or-Bust loyalists, Joe roping
Republicans.
So
claims The Daily Beast.
According to TDB, the presumptive presidential nomineeās team is building a āsecretā group of GOP supporters aimed at seducing otherwise Trumpsters to cast their votes for the J-man.
During a livechat with soccer star Megan Rapinoe in late April, Biden
said heād been āspeaking to a lot of Republicans.ā That included āformer colleaguesā who, he claimed, were ācalling and saying, āJoe, if you win, weāre gonna help.'ā
He even
offered the following:
āMatter of fact, thereās some major Republicans who are already forming āRepublicans for Biden.ā Major officeholders.ā
And now, as
per the Beast, that planās āstarting to get underway in certain Republican circles behind-the-scenes.ā
Citing sources ādirectly familiar with the matter,ā the outlet reports that discussions of āmessaging, engagement, leadership, and roll-out are starting to be broadly sketched out.ā
An unnamed top official in the Party of Lincolnās purportedly involved in the preliminary talks.
Hereās what he told the TDB:
āIāve had several conversations with people who have approached me. Itās going to take off, itās going to happen. The question is to what degree and form it does. You donāt want something like this out on the street before it needs to be. It just makes it much harder to do.ā
The Beast also notes Bidenās expressed penchant for working with those across the aisle, and the piece lays out two possible iterations for a pro-Joe Republican effort:
The article mentions a few potential key players, including former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, former Florida Rep. David Jolly, political analyst Charlie Sykes, Weekly Standard founder and The Bulwark Editor-At-Large Bill Kristol, and former RNC Chair Michael Steele.
Among the possible flag-wavers for Biden, TDB points to one NeverTrumper as a standout: former Republican Ohio Gov. (and current CNN commentator) John Kasich.
However, a senior strategist for John has denied any such workings.
Would a major Republican name really join a Democratās campaign in a prominent way?
Democratic tactician Joe Trippie
put it this way:
āItās done, but the reason itās not common is there are few people willing to do that. Itās not rare on the Biden campaignās part. You just donāt usually have that many prominent peopleā¦willing to cross lines in the middle of a presidential campaign.ā
Presently, we have a man running for the highest office in the land with a very substantial and evident medical issue. And itās not the kind of problem that gets better with time. Why are Democrats sticking around? It seems to me the sexual assault allegations provide a convenient basis for a switch to someone more primed to lead. But Bidenās apparent confusion shouldāve done that already.
The Democratic Party, in my view, has seemed largely disinterested in the election. Whatās going on? With impeachment, they dragged Joe through massive amounts of mud. And now heās embarrassing himself by relentlessly displaying health issues in front of the whole world. Why are they letting him do this?