Behind the scenes as Joe Biden lost control of the Democratic Party

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Other officials said more effort was still being put into planning a future agenda. The preparations for a Trump takeover, they added, had begun months earlier, as a normal course of business. The conversation occurred just two days after the assassination attempt against Trump, who had posted on social media that it was “imperative” for Kennedy to receive Secret Service protection.

Why are we even talking about coconut trees?

“We only have one chance to beat Donald Trump, and we need a nominee who can get the job done. And that would be me,” Kennedy said during a presentation on campaign polling in Brooklyn. Elsewhere, the X-rated star was asked by the audience how his family reacted to news of his porn pursuits. Fox told the show that while he does some eye-popping positions on camera, he prefers much more vanilla lovemaking in his personal life. Kody appeared alongside ’80s adult actress Nikki Stern, who left porn to become a librarian.

Porn star Angela White nearly died after shooting grueling scene: report

Like all of us, the coconut tree moment exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before it. Which is to say, it’s part of a larger set of memes surrounding Kamala Harris’ political persona. Harris has been spawning memes longer than she’s been vice president. But her laugh, her bus, her dance moves and her love of Venn diagrams have all become social media fodder. Then the 81-year-old president, traveling to campaign events to try to prove his vigor, contracted covid again.

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She would have a plethora of promising choices to balance the ticket, including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, all of whom won in places where Trump performed well. From the coconut trees to the Venn diagrams, the Harris memes embrace what detractors might consider a gaffe. Trump, for instance, has dubbed Harris “laughing Kamala,” saying the laugh makes her seem “crazy.” Angela White — the infamous “Meryl Streep of porn” — almost died after filming a brutal hourlong sex scene with a well-endowed co-star. James Carville, the Bill Clinton strategist who had long called for Biden to get out, worked the phone from a cruise ship off the coast of Alaska, trying to divine what happens next and get his party to a better place.

Significant parts of the president’s campaign and White House team were saying privately that, after a disastrous debate performance on June 27, they no longer believed. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) sat down with Biden after the news conference to warn the president that his candidacy imperiled Democratic hopes of taking back the House. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) shared the same warning days later. In the video, Mr. Trump is heard through Kennedy’s speakerphone, agreeing with Kennedy’s discredited sentiments about vaccines before trying to coax the independent candidate into endorsing his campaign. The former president also shared details about his attempted assassination during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday and the phone call that followed between him and President Biden. A campaign is akin to an expensive startup business on a national scale.

• “We only have one chance to beat Donald Trump, and we need a nominee who can get the job done. And that would be me,” Kennedy said during a presentation on campaign polling in Brooklyn.
• Angela White, 35, was one of the stars who appeared on the show, with the porn queen confessing that getting down and dirty on camera has had a detrimental effect on her dating life.
• By that point, Harris was running fifth, her poll numbers down to 6%.

However, the medical episode didn’t deter White from getting frisky with Lee again, as the pair have gone on to star in several more scenes together. However, the porn star has previously opened up about having her appendix removed. The Aussie adult star, 37, was hospitalized with a burst appendix following the frisky shoot, which was said to have taken place in 2013. The fate of the Democratic Party now hinged on the gut sense of a man who has spent the last 52 years working in national politics. It is not a vigorous data-driven exercise,” said one Democratic strategist, describing the decision Biden had already made and would have to make again.

Trump advisers and operatives in key states began discussing how they could help keep Biden in the race, believing he is a weaker candidate than other options for Democrats. “If Democrats want to win Georgia, they’d be better off with a potted plant at the top of their ticket,” said Cody Hall, a top adviser to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), describing the current environment there. “Lots of rumors going around about my meeting this morning with President Trump. Our main topic was national unity, and I hope to meet with Democratic leaders about that as well. No, I am not dropping out of the race,” Kennedy wrote. After meeting with Trump the morning of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday, Kennedy tried to dispel rumors on X suggesting that the pair met to discuss a unity ticket. In May, Kennedy told reporters during a presentation that he believed he had a path to victory if Mr. Biden dropped out of the race, leaving him in a head-to-head race against Mr. Trump. This time, instead of facing off against fellow Democrats, Harris would be able to elevate one to serve as her running mate.

It’s impossible to say why any particular meme — political or otherwise — catches fire over another. But part of Harris’ persona as portrayed on the internet is just that she brings an energy that’s in stark contrast to President Biden and former President Donald Trump. But the meme took on new life this summer, after President Biden’s disastrous debate performance fueled speculation that he might step aside as the Democratic nominee. Harris’ supporters, also known as the KHive, were waiting in the wings. The “coconut tree” meme originates from a May 2023 speech Harris gave at a White House event for advancing opportunities for Hispanic Americans. In 2016, the Sydney-born starlet penned a post to social media about undergoing the procedure three years earlier, according to the Sun.

He echoed others when he said he was not sure how Biden finds a way out of the spiral in which he is caught — a constant questioning about the path to victory that only makes the path to victory harder. At the White House, officials stoked the fires they could control. The policy shop began to fast-track plans that had long been in the works, including a blueprint to create term limits for the Supreme Court and impose new ethics rules on the justices — catnip for the liberal base. Propeller heads finalized a plan for legislation to take away tax rebates from corporate landlords who increased rent by more than 5 percent a year, a potentially massive new federal intervention to reverse a major driver of inflation. But Fulks spoke those words on behalf of a president no longer backed by an entire party. Two-thirds of the country, including 56 percent of Democrats, said in a Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll in early July that Biden should drop out.