CNN Primes Pump to Pressure Biden to Give Up Nomination at Convention

Nicholas Fondacaro | February 19, 2024
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President Biden was cruising to the 2024 Democratic nomination; given help from the liberal media in refusing to give his opponents any oxygen. But with Biden’s mental fitness for office coming increasingly into question following the special counsel investigation and his near-constant forgetfulness, CNN’s Inside Politics spent part of their Monday show seemingly priming the pump for the possibility that the President might cede his nomination to a younger, more capable Democrat at the convention; or at least beginning to ease up the pressure toward that outcome.

Fill-in host Jessica Dean kicked off the segment by hyping a presidential power ranking from liberal college professors who put former President Trump in dead last. “But the polls for this November's election showing Biden consistently trailing Trump, despite the near-universal thumbs down on Trump's legacy from historians all across the aisle,” she whined.

It was those persistently troubling polls that were the impetus for her to highlight prominent Democrats who were nervously trying to nudge Biden out of the race.

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