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Biden vs. The World

He may have already lost the backing of Democrats on Capitol Hill and in the donor class. But in the face of Joe Biden’s go-for-broke, damn-the-torpedoes embrace of sheer defiance—along with denial, delusion, and desperation—as a strategy for survival, will being abandoned by his own party be enough to make him quit the race?

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Jill and Hunter Biden have increasingly asserted themselves in the campaign, taking on active roles as gatekeepers and counselors to the president. Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
John Heilemann
July 8, 2024

As Joe Biden’s post-debate, post-Stephanopoulos existential campaign crisis grew even deeper and more imperiling this weekend, I got on the horn with Puck’s co-founder and editor-in-chief, Jon Kelly, to exchange notes on the Democratic donor revolt, the brewing rebellion in the House and Senate, the escalating anger at Bidenworld, and where all this might end. Herewith…