The president brought together a party riven on class, age and racial issues. What happens if he goes?
Last month’s Los Angeles fundraiser for Joe Biden was a roaring success, bagging more than $30mn in donations for the president’s re-election campaign and high-wattage backing from the likes of George Clooney and Julia Roberts. As the evening wound down, the crowd was cheering, the band was playing exit music and it was time to leave the stage — except Biden appeared to freeze. His former boss, Barack Obama, came to the rescue, taking the 81-year-old president’s arm and guiding him away.
Of the party’s leading families he said: “They all represent different factions. They all think they have the answer.” By contrast, the Republican party has appeared ever more uniform under the domination of Trump. Its unity has been achieved, in part, by persecuting dissenters, including those who blamed the former president for inciting the January 6 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol. One veteran Democratic operative warned of “a giant shit-show” if Biden were to be toppled.
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