Anita Dunn Blames Pelosi, Other Democrat Leaders for Pushing Biden Out of Race
“You know, clearly there were leaders of the party who decided to go ahead and go very public,” said Dunn. “And that gave permission to other people to go public.”
Anita Dunn, longtime adviser to President Joe Biden, unloaded on Democrat leaders such as Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for pushing Biden out of the presidential race after the debate without any reasoning.
She also doesn’t deny that Biden is still angry at the Democratic Congressional leaders.
Dunn tries to gloss over the debate, latching onto the “he had a cold” narrative while bragging he did a great job afterward at Waffle House and a huge rally the next day. That doesn’t make any sense, but okay.
Dunn builds up to her criticisms by pointing out Biden didn’t lose much ground after the debate. Hot Air’s Ed Morissey already wrote about it, posting an image from RCP poll average.
Biden held an event in Wisconsin where people said they didn’t like the bullying from the press and others.
“You know, clearly there were leaders of the party who decided to go ahead and go very public,” says Dunn. “And that gave permission to other people to go public.”
Boom.
Ryan Lizza, the podcast host, pounces on the comment (last emphasis mine):
Are you talking about senators and House members? Or do you mean like when Nancy Pelosi goes on TV twice when things feel like they’re dying down and reopens the debate?
Absolutely.
Key moments.
Key moments where people made the decision when it looked like we were reaching a point where we would fight our way through it. I had a lot of Republican friends who were sending me texts during this period saying, “Your party is insane.” They were saying, “We’ve never seen anything like this. Our party closes ranks. You know, you fight it through. You have a 24-hour news cycle. He had a bad debate, and you move on.”
They could not believe what was going on here. And then you had this decision that the Democratic Party made to ignore their primary voters and ignore their primary process, and that was a very donor-driven thing.
Interesting because the campaign used the primary in its argument against the haters. Biden won over 14 million voters during the process. His challenger, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), spent a lot of money and time in New Hampshire, where Biden didn’t make the ballot. He spent most of the time on Biden’s age.
Yet Biden won the state with a write-in campaign.
Dunn adds:
You know, we’re a party that likes to talk about voting and voting rights — and some leaders made a decision that they wanted to go disenfranchise everyone who participated in the primaries. People went and they voted for Joe Biden. So we felt that we were in a fairly strong position.
Ouch.
Dunn stops short of calling it a coup because now-presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris remained loyal to Biden:
I don’t regard it as a coup, for a couple of reasons. One is because the vice president was nothing except unremittingly loyal and supportive to the president throughout this, and was fully engaged in the “What is your plan? What is our plan? What are we doing next?”
So if you’re going to have a coup, usually someone has to lead it. And she was 100 percent terrifically loyal. I give her remarkable props. Her staff, she made sure there was never a murmur from anyone in that camp, and that takes an enormous amount of discipline and also an enormous amount of loyalty.
Dunn doesn’t explain why Biden pulled out, telling Lizza to wait until a book came out in 2026.
Lizza mentions that people say Biden is “still very angry at Pelosi, Obama, Schumer, to a lesser extent -” before Dunn cuts him off:
But he is 1,000 percent all-in for Kamala Harris. And that is absolutely true. The task in front of us is to win this election and to not let Donald Trump become president again and to win the House of Representatives, which had certain leaders in 2022 done a slightly better job, maybe we would control today, but we don’t.
So to win, to make Hakeem Jeffries a historic speaker, and he will be a great speaker. To keep Chuck Schumer, Democratic leader of the Senate, which is going to be a very, very tough job, but that is the job ahead of us. And it’s critical because, as the president has said, this country is at an inflection point. All of us who believe that and who believe Joe Biden when he said that he has one job right now and that is to make sure she wins and that we win the House and we keep the Senate.
I wonder who Lizza planned on naming. I’m guessing Dunn knew, and that’s why she jumped in.
But did you notice her not denying that Biden is still angry at those people? Weird, huh?
Dunn left the White House to head Future Forward, the super PAC devoted to electing Harris in November.
Will her grudge continue?
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Some advisor!!
She should have told Biden to drop out long before the current election cycle even began.
That’s delusional thinking right there
Anita Dunn – Mao-lover who was “thrown out” of Barky’s administration for publicly praising Mao (and darting her tongue in and out like a lizard, showing that she is probably on some strong psychoactives, which is not uncommon among the deranged left) only to be snuck back in when Traitor Joe started fronting for Barky’s junta’s third term.
I think Kamala is supposed to be Obama’s third term. Which was supposed to be this term, because the reason for allowing Biden to win was to bring in Kamala as VP, then resign and she’s promoted without having to be elected. Now they’re in the messy situation of trying to force her in the hard way, with an election. And Biden won’t even be there to bring her along as his 2nd term VP, then conveniently get out of the way (maybe involuntarily).
Biden wasn’t Obama’s third term. No way he’d support Israel if he were.
Kamala will be all pro-Biden until at least after the election. If she’s declared winner, we may see a new Kamala which is really the old Kamala, no need to hide it any longer.
In other words (I just realized this after hitting “send”) their strategy for electing the unelectable Kamala is to get people to think they’re voting for more of Biden, who’s pretty electable esp. if the old-age issue is removed.
I thought that the plan from the beginning. But before they could depose Joe, they realized Harris was both incompetent and unlikable, and would have done severe damage to the Democrat brand. Unfortunately for them, what they ended up with in the Oval Office was a potato who was threatening to cause similar damage, landing them in the predicament 3.5 years later that we are continuing to witness.
I hope that Dunn is relegated to the dustbin of history right along with Dementia Joe. We don’t need any communists in our government whatsoever.
Dunn’s career is done.
It’s almost as if she could almost spell out the word c.o.u.p.
One could almost say, “The toast is Dunn. And vice-versa.”
Why does she think Kamala would have to be in charge for it to be a coup? Kamala has always been a good little apparatchik for the DNC.
“Dunn tries to gloss over the debate, latching onto the “he had a cold” narrative while bragging he did a great job afterward at Waffle House and a huge rally the next day”
“He made the waffles run on time.”
“So if you’re going to have a coup, usually someone has to lead it. And she was 100 percent terrifically loyal.”
Flawless logic, if you’re incapable of understanding that the leader simply wasn’t Kamala, because she’s incapable of leading anything.
“…people said they didn’t like the bullying from the press and others.
“You know, clearly there were leaders of the party who decided to go ahead and go very public,” says Dunn. “And that gave permission to other people to go public.”
So the press needs permission from Democrats before they can print truths everyone can see for themselves?
Good to get that in the record.
Harris is now a favorite in the polls and betting odds (Aug 9). If Trump doesn’t retake the lead after the VP splat is digested by the polls then his campaign and our republic are in grave danger.
No, Rasmussen has Trump 5 points above Harris. You have to ignore the push-polling which is designed to drive money towards Harris.
Rasmussen has always been a reliably biased towards Rs poll. I am more concerned that the bookies agree with the poll averages.
Are you listening to Clay Travis? Because that’s what he is saying. Buck Sexton disagrees and firmly believes Trump is going to win.
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“Wait for a book release in 2026.”
Dunn and a $2m book deal? Ghostwritten. Of course our local public libraries will buy 4 copies each, and the book will be an instant NYT best seller. She then moves to a Harvard adjunct professorship and the payola contract is complete.
Postscript: Dunn left the White House to head Future Forward, the SuperPAC. lol? $$$
As more time passes, the impact of donors pulling out after the debate looks more and more the reason a change was made. Clearly the megabucks donors like Harris more than Sleepy Joe at this point. Equally obvious is that the political class needs to get paid first and foremost.
so they disenfranchise
14 million ppl put in someone who has won exactly zero primaries.
in fact I have won the same number of primaries as heels up Harris.
lots of old school dems I know say
they are going to vote for the only candidate who won their primaries.
or they will stay home ….
I hope disgruntled Democrats just stay home this cycle
“in fact I have won the same number of primaries”
Hilarious – because it’s true. Everyone should start making this claim on social media when commenting about Harris.
Biden doesn’t have a “black and female” shield. Kamala does. The math is obvious: play on what got Obama elected, which is skin color.
Anita Dunn needs to enroll in auto-bill pay.
The Office of the Comptroller Of Maryland has filed a $28,743.71 tax lien against Joe Biden’s former top adviser, Anita Dunn.
Dunn stepped down from her position as Biden’s adviser recently to accept a new position as a senior consultant for a Kamala Harris Super PAC.
Maryland court records show that the Comptroller of Maryland filed a $28,743.71 tax lien against Anita Dunn and her husband, Robert Bauer, who served as White House counsel to former President Barrack Obama.
The judgment against Dunn and Bauer was made on July 14, 2024.
The Dems could have avoided some of their problems by being honest and transparent (yeah, right). When they convinced Joe to remove himself from the race, they should have also bitten the bullet and removed him from office too. By not doing so, they left the door open to people like Dunn to act as if Joe is still a viable/competent POTUS, which he is obviously not. But the Dems went for a half-measure and did additional, unnecessary damage to their brand.