Terrified Democrats and The New York Times aren’t the only voices calling for President Joe Biden to step aside because they fear former President Donald Trump will defeat him in November.
Now, Biden’s biggest supporters — the Hollywood Left — say their man must drop out of the race.
That’s bad news for Biden. Democrats depend upon Tinseltown’s obscenely rich leftist loons to back the party and its candidates. Then again, if Biden doesn’t drop out, the bright lights of the entertainment industry won’t have a choice. They’ll be stuck with a candidate afflicted by severe cognitive and physical decline.
Contributors Abandon Biden
The big shots aren’t just alarmed about Biden’s calamitous collapse in his debate against Trump on June 27. “Several feel deceived by the White House and top campaign officials for keeping Biden’s age issues a secret while they promoted his candidacy and donated millions,” Axios reported.
The website reported that Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel told “journalist” Tina Brown that Biden must quit. “He and his cohorts have told us that he’s [been] healthy for over a year,” Emanuel moaned.
The Hollywood Reporter offered more detail about Emanuel’s comments, which he delivered at the Aspen Ideas Festival:
Emanuel blamed Biden’s advisers for being less than candid about his physical stamina and mental acuity and blasted the president for reneging on a campaign pledge to step aside after a single term. “He said he was going to run for one term, and he’s doing it to restore democracy. He then runs for a second term — that’s the first bit of malarkey, as he would say. He and his cohorts have told us that he’s [been] healthy for over a year,” Emanuel continued.
“I had a father who died at 92, but at 81 I took away his car, and it was a very simple test for me,” he said to loud applause. “If you were driving from downtown Beverly Hills to Malibu, would you want Biden to do it at night? Would you want Trump to do it at night? If the answer is neither, you cannot have them running a $27 trillion company called the United States.”
Emanuel also said Hollywood’s big donors are “moving all their money to Congress and the Senate,” presumably to block what could be a GOP sweep in those elections should Trump win.
Also abandoning Biden’s sinking ship is Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings, Axios reported.
Hastings and his wife shoveled $1.5 million into the 2020 election for Biden and thus far this race have pumped in $100,000.
“IAC chairman Barry Diller told The Ankler that he and his wife, designer Diane von Fürstenberg, were no longer supporting Biden as the nominee, after having contributed to his campaign,” Axios continued.
Worse still, if Biden doesn’t drop out, other candidates might suffer Hollywood’s wrath, too.
Leftist Abigail Disney — whose conservative father and granduncle, Roy and Walt, have turned in their graves — will end all contributions to the party “unless and until they replace Biden at the top of the ticket,” she told CNBC. And “several Hollywood A-listers have expressed frustration with movie mogul-turned-investor Jeffrey Katzenberg, who serves as co-chair of Biden’s reelection campaign, per the Financial Times,” Axios reported:
Donors feel deceived by Katzenberg and other campaign officials for failing to disclose how serious Biden’s aging issues had become, per the FT and The Ankler. Katzenberg has himself donated millions to Biden’s reelection campaign.
Then again, Biden has hauled in $56 million in two recent fundraisers. Featured celebrities included former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama, along with leftists Julia Roberts, Jimmy Kimmel, George Clooney, Stephen Colbert, Queen Latifah, and the morbidly obese, preposterously monikered Lizzo.
4 P.M. Shutdown
The Left Coast Glitterati are right to be worried on two counts.
As The New American reported last week, citing Axios, the 81-year-old Biden’s day is done after about 4:00 p.m. He’s simply worn out, which explains his poor debate.
Top aides and undoubtedly wife “Dr.” Jill carefully “stage manage” Biden, including his “sleep schedule.” Aides must walk him to Marine One. Though they “usually see him engaged,” the cataclysmic failure during the debate “shattered the White House’s efforts to show Biden at his best: a president capable of serving until 2029, when he’d be 86,” Axios reported.
“Biden’s miscues and limitations are more familiar inside the White House,” the website revealed:
From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Biden is dependably engaged — and many of his public events in front of cameras are held within those hours.
Outside of that time range or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued, aides told Axios.
The debate began at 9:00 p.m., a time when dementia sufferers are sundowning. And after the debate, “Dr.” Jill rushed up to the stage to help him down.
Meanwhile, Trump strode off the platform fresh as a daisy.
And, of course, Biden is trailing in the Real Clear Politics average of national and battleground polls.
All that explains why Hollywood elites have gone to DEFCON 1.
Problem is, if Biden refuses to quit, they have no other choice.
