Steve Schmidt supporting President Biden's Primary opponent....

[Upthevibe]

Dean Phillips....

I was on twitter and saw this post by Nancy Sinatra so I wanted to check out what she was talking about:

"You have lost me Steve.
@SteveSchmidtSES

You broke my heart"

Steve Schmidt, a veteran anti-Trump Republican strategist, is teaming up with President Joe Biden's new Democratic challenger, Representative Dean Phillips, to take down the sitting president in the 2024 election.

Phillips launched his long-shot primary challenge against Biden on Friday after weeks of teasing a potential run, announcing that his "last-minute campaign" would be the only path for Democrats to defeat former President Donald Trump in the general election next year.
Schmidt, who worked on the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John McCain before denouncing the GOP in 2018 as "fully the party of Trump," will be a close adviser to Phillips on his campaign. The announcement comes nearly four years after Schmidt helped found the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump group that raised nearly $100 million to get Biden elected in 2020. He left the PAC in 2021.

"I am joining Dean Phillips in this urgent moment of political crisis because we must try to make campaigns big and inspiring again," Schmidt wrote in a Friday blog post. "We must try and bring some nobility, decency and inspiration back into the business of politics. We must engage young people, and meet every American where they are. We must talk about the real issues that people in the country are facing. I'm going to do my utmost to help him do it."

Schmidt said while he "deeply admires" Biden and would support him should he win the 2024 Democratic nomination over Phillips, he believes Biden is on track to lose against Trump.

"I have made many predictions over the last seven years," Schmidt said. "Donald Trump credited me with being the very first person on American television to see that he could win, was winning and would win the Republican nomination."

"[The extremist movement] has a leader, and he is going to be the Republican nominee. I wish that were not true," he wrote. "If the election was tomorrow the simple truth is: President Biden would lose."
Schmidt said he was joining Phillips' campaign for two reasons—because Phillips will "talk about some very important things that have not been talked about in a long time" and because "Biden may be the only Democrat who could run for president who will lose to Donald Trump."

Schmidt said he was joining Phillips' campaign for two reasons—because Phillips will "talk about some very important things that have not been talked about in a long time" and because "Biden may be the only Democrat who could run for president who will lose to Donald Trump."

In a statement announcing his presidential bid, the Minnesota congressman said his campaign would be about the economy, safety, generational change and "listening to each other to get back to a less divisive political environment."

Phillips has made several media appearances leading up to his campaign launch, expressing his view that another, younger Democrat had to run against 80-year-old Biden, pointing to polls that consistently show that voters want more options.

Two-thirds of Democrat-leaning voters say that the party should not nominate Biden for a second term, with more than 80 percent of those voters saying they want "just someone besides Joe Biden," according to a CNN poll released last month.

The overwhelming majority of Americans do not want to see a rematch between President Biden and the convicted sex abuser and accused felon, who incited the end of the peaceful transition of power," Schmidt said. "There is an overwhelming majority of Americans and substantial number of Democrats who do not want President Biden to run again.""They deserve a choice, and they will have one," he said.
https://www.newsweek.com/steve-schmidt-backing-dean-phillips-2024-election-joe-biden-1838591
I literally just had to take a Xanax.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. He wants to get his name out for 2028.

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This is all about creating a network for that Presidential run. I hope he chokes on it.

[Demsrule86]

17. Dean can F off... I would never vote for any person who primaries a sitting president.

I would never, never vote for him in any including 2028. He might as well leave the stage. He is finished in the Democratic Party for his terrible judgment in primarying a sitting president.

[Sympthsical]

2. Steve Schmidt supports Steve Schmidt

It has ever been thus and very transparently so.

[FalloutShelter]

3. The Never Trumpers are

NOT our friends.

[bahboo]

4. he does love the sound of his own voice...

[doc03]

5. Steve Schmidt is not alone on this thinking. I hear the same thing all the time

about Biden. I can't figure why Biden's poll numbers are so bad but it is what it is. Biden should be polling 70%, the only things I think is hurting him is inflation and his age.

[demosincebirth]

6. The thousand, a day, coming in from central and South America

Aren’t helping with his poll numbers, either

[doc03]

16. Nope nt

[demosincebirth]

42. Yup. nt.

[Cha]

21. This is What the Mayor of Atlanta Georgia thinks of Dean Phillips..

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[ShazzieB]

28. Thank you, Andre Dickens!

May Dickens be the first of many prominent Democrats to speak out about this!

I know less than nothing about Dean Phillips, but he can take a long walk off a short pier afaic.

[Cha]

30. Yes, it's a Brilliant Statement For Our Democracy!

Mahalo, ShazzieB for reading it!!

[ShazzieB]

37. Mayalo to you, too, for posting it!

[edisdead]

26. Hell, you can read it here far too often.

There have been posts here about Biden’s age.

And yeah one time is far too often.

[usonian]

7. Media figures support one thing: Media figures (namely themselves)

Media want "sizzle"

Facts are boring. Joe Biden has turned the bogus economic theory that gave us "The One-Percent Economy" on its head, and revolutionized economics in fact, not just in theory.

BUT THAT'S BORING. A revolution without guns, bombs and bright aerial bursts is boring.

Culture wars are exciting, if meaningless diversions. Media are 100% complicit in the reduction of politics and government into a Jerry Springer show.

Chairs better be a'flying or we ain't buying.

Media and media figures? Self-serving destructive assholes.
They don't COVER Trump. They ARE Trump.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Am glad to 'rec' this post.

[usonian]

14. Thanks!

💡 Great minds obviously think alike. 💡
I am so tired of media bullshit.

[agingdem]

8. this isn't the first time...

he signed on as a consultant for Howard Schultz (Starbucks) when he pondered a possible presidential run...

[NotVeryImportant]

9. Is anyone surprised?

Steve, and all others like him, are all Republican scumbags.

No surprise there.

[Duppers]

15. I'm not ready to call him a Republican scumbag...

But he's sure as hell WRONG here and has now lost my ear. It's a what-the-F moment?!!

And yep, I know he previously was a Repub. Perhaps I should put previously put in quotes now?!

[Kingofalldems]

10. He's a republican.

[WarGamer]

25. Always has been... hopefully his DU Fan Club has disappeared.

I've been arguing for years that Schmidt, Cheney, Kristol, Adam the Unemployed and all the rest are NOT allies or friends just because they hate Trump...

Especially when IN FACT, they love 99% of Trump policies, they just hate him for blowing up Neoconservatism that they've been working on for 40 years.

[Sympthsical]

31. It's this

They don't hate Trump because they're suddenly not conservative Republicans.

They hate Trump because he came in and trashed their clubhouse just when they got it looking all spiffy.

Schmidt has a history of overlooking a great many things (i.e. Palin, Alito, etc). However, he will never overlook anyone who disrupts his own influence in the party. That was the unforgivable sin of Trump in his eyes.

[BlueTsunami2018]

11. Who is funding Phillips' campaign?

No one knows who this guy is, there's no way he'd have a war chest substantial enough to support a Presidential campaign and afford a top advisor like Schmidt.

Or is this guy one of those megarich assholes?

[Demsrule86]

18. Republicans and third parties-no doubt.

[peggysue2]

34. Reportedly, Harlan Crow and his billionaire buddies are funding Phillip's vanity project

As for Steve Schmidt? He's not only supporting Phillip's, he's running his campaign and has promised to hammer Joe Biden with everything they've got (or can make up). Schmidt has gone from an eloquent speaker in defense of democracy to running a Democratic primary challenger to a sitting president who is standing in the way of a twice impeached con-artist, a man who has already told the world what he intends to do in the Oval Office the second time around. Dean Phillip's won't win the primary but he and his monied supporters with Schmidt's help can certainly bloody and bruise Biden. Which is the point.

Think back to Kennedy challenging Carter. Or Poppy Bush challenged by Buchanan, and then finished off by Ross Perot in 1992. Or Gerald Ford in the 1976 campaign challenged by Saint Ronnie. Ford managed to win the primary despite the lingering Nixon stink but was ultimately defeated by Jimmy Carter in the General. Ronnie certainly didn't help Ford's cause.

The RFK, Jr. gambit backfired on Republicans when surveys showed Kennedy hurting Trump more than Biden. This is just another Republican attempt to shave the numbers.

Shame on Steve Schmidt. Harlan Crow must have offered a very sweet deal. But then, he and his billionaire friends bought off SCOTUS. A former political operative was probably easy pickings.

[Ocelot II]

40. He's very wealthy. Not in Bloomberg's league but he can afford to get his campaign going.

[flamingdem]

12. He had an impressive schtick but a Repuke is a Repuke

Yuk.

[Cha]

19. I like what Mayor Andre Dickens has to say about Dean Phillips..

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9e7zg8WUAAr6oT?format=jpg
I appreciated Schmidt when he was behind Pres Biden.. Now I don't like him.

I can change my mind when events Devolve.

[honest.abe]

20. I dont agree with this but Biden does seem to lack excitement and appeal especially to the younger generation.

But it makes no sense for others to run for the Dem nominee unless Joe decides on his own to drop out. Joe is our guy 100% unless that happens.

[Rebl2]

24. They apparently

Voted for him in 2020. What changed. Just want someone who knows what he’s doing and is intelligent and has depth of experience. I don’t need someone to entertain me. I want someone that is kind and not full of himself. Someone who has interest of the country top of mind as well as our allies.

[honest.abe]

27. What changed?? Inflation, high interest rates, wars and all sorts of other negative crap going on now.

Unfairly many blame Joe. In my opinion none of that matters no matter who's to blame.. the opposition party is the party of lunatics and extremists who want to install this country's first dictator. That enough for me to support Joe who is probably the very best person to lead us through this mess.

[Evergreen Emerald]

22. We must try and bring some nobility, decency and inspiration back into the business of politics.

Said the man who chose Sarah Palin to run as the VP.

[onecaliberal]

36. When has Biden ever not been decent? For fucks sake.

[DemocratInPa]

23. This is why I am not banking on anything..

Biden numbers aren't great and who knows what is going to happen in the ME..

I told you, I Have 2 Gen Z who are not sold on voting for Biden.

Gen Z for change Is also hammering his Climate record and now this ME thing on him.

[onecaliberal]

41. There are 2 candidates one is Trump. If people don't get that they don't believe in democracy !

[BlueGreenLady]

29. Steve Schmidt is 1/2 a bubble off of level, imho. n/t

[MN2theMax]

32. When the world is on fire and a hurricane is approaching

I want the MOST experienced leader possible steering the ship. Not some inexperienced showboater.
If Gen Z wants action on climate, on gun safety, on income inequality, they should give Joe a dem house and senate with a larger majority. I guarantee they would be pleased with Joe then.

Phillips is a very moderate democrat. Very little experience. Not presidential material IMHO.

[GiqueCee]

33. Steve Schmidt...

... once a self-serving Republican, ALWAYS a self-serving Republican, regardless of how well-tailored his sheep's clothing may be. I had once admired him. No more.
Biden has accomplished more for America in his first term than ANY president in recent memory, and still, those of limited intellect nod their heads with expressions of concern plastered on their faces like makeup applied with a trowel when propagandists say, well, his numbers aren't great.
Well, who do we thank for that? News media that bow to the capricious demands of conservative CEOs, damn him with faint praise, and then claim that his accomplishments are bad for corporate interests, when the fact of the matter is, corporate interests are, more often than not, bad for America. And where are the voices of those paid to defend him? Awfully damned quiet.
If Joe had committed one witless blunder after another, it would be one thing, but that is most definitely NOT the case. Phillips should be ashamed of himself. A primary challenge to a sitting president is bad form, to say the least. To challenge a sitting president who has proven his ability to govern effectively beyond any shadow of a doubt, especially because of fabricated mistakes and ageism, is unforgivable.
Go home, Mr. Phillips, and contemplate the flawed judgement that prompted you to make a decision that may well prove to be your undoing. And block Schmidt's calls. He has just squandered any credibility he may once have had.

[dlk]

35. Schmidt is politically saavy enough to understand supporting Dean Phillips could easily throw the election to Trump

When someone shows you who they really are, you should believe them...

[Sogo]

38. Steve Schmidt needs money.

.

[Sogo]

39. We need leaders with good judgement.

Dean Phillips is not showing good judgement by running against Biden.