Pressure to step aside as nominee continues to mount against President Joe Biden from members of his own party following a disastrous debate performance that put Biden’s cognitive decline on full display. But if Democrats want to get rid of Biden as nominee, they need to use the 25th Amendment. Anything else is an attempted coup.
More than a dozen congressional Democrats have called on Biden to step down as the nominee alongside left-wing talking heads and Hollywood elites. Reports indicate former President Barack Obama is also nudging his former No. 2 to pass the torch.
Democrats want to have their cake and eat it too, by getting rid of Biden the nominee but keeping Biden the current president. But that’s not how it works.
Had Biden not shot himself in the foot by demanding an earlier debate, the White House and left-wing corporate media might have continued to get away with hiding the president’s visible struggles from voters. Back in February, after Special Counsel Robert Hur described Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory” who wasn’t fit to be charged with a “serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” Democrats didn’t call for Biden to step down. They could cast doubt on the report and shield Biden from the public with few to no questions asked.
At the debate, however, it couldn’t be hidden: Biden was unable to put together coherent sentences, let alone walk off the stage unassisted. Now that Biden’s mental and physical
