{"id":20437,"date":"2024-07-02T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/dems-who-were-pressed-to-retire-due-to-age-concerns-have-a-history-of-refusing-to-go\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T12:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:46:21","slug":"dems-who-were-pressed-to-retire-due-to-age-concerns-have-a-history-of-refusing-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/dems-who-were-pressed-to-retire-due-to-age-concerns-have-a-history-of-refusing-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems who were pressed to retire due to age concerns have a history of refusing to go"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As calls for President Joe Biden to retire have increased in the Democratic Party following Thursday night\u2019s presidential debate against former President Donald Trump, replacing him could prove to be an uphill legal hurdle, albeit one that some political groups are already preparing for. Biden\u2019s troubles come amid a recent series of progressive figures in Congress and the courts who have refused to retire despite pressure from liberal activists.<\/p>\n

\u2018The leverage is pretty much all with President Biden,\u2019 Mike Howell, executive director of the Heritage Oversight Project \u2013 a conservative watchdog group \u2013 told Fox News Digital in an interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018It is much more difficult to forcefully replace him than it would be for him to voluntarily withdraw, and so I expect that is the nature of the conversations. I think the only people right now that are fighting to keep President Biden on the ballot are President Biden, Jill Biden and, interestingly enough, me, because we will sue to make sure his name stays on the ballot.\u2019<\/p>\n

Howell added it\u2019s \u2018not easy\u2019 to fill a replacement for a presidential candidate, which would create a \u2018massive legal and logistical nightmare for the replacement candidate.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018There are precedents of candidates dying and other state and local races before, but this is unchartered territory, because it\u2019s presidential and so what you have are basically 50 different steps, sets of rules, laws, procedures and political environments that they have to navigate through,\u2019 Howell said. \u2018And so ultimately, whatever they do, it will be so fact dependent that certain states will become more important than others.\u2019<\/p>\n

And Biden isn\u2019t the first Democrat politician or liberal political figure to disappoint progressives by refusing such calls to retire.<\/p>\n

The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020 after 27 years in her seat. She was 87 years old when she died during President Trump\u2019s term in office. Amy Coney Barrett was nominated and successfully confirmed to replace her on the bench.<\/p>\n

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., died in September at age 90. Just hours before her death, she cast her last Senate vote. The seat is now one of this election\u2019s hotly contested seats, with Republican candidate and ex-MLB star Steve Garvey and Rep. Adam Schiff vying for the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., 84, also a former speaker of the House, has faced calls to retire. Instead, Pelosi has doubled down and vowed to seek re-election this year to extend her 36-year House tenure. Pelosi has long been a lightning rod who generates Republican passions and is a boon for conservative fundraising and get-out-the-vote drives.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the aisle, Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell \u2013 the longest serving Senate party leader in history \u2013 also faced growing calls from his party to retire last year. McConnell announced he would step down from his leadership position in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018There\u2019s not a comparison between him and Biden because Republicans called on McConnell to step down, and McConnell is stepping down,\u2019 Howell added. \u2018So, that is an apples to oranges thing.\u2019<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s mental acuity became the center of political discourse last month after a bombshell Washington Journal report, which the White House dismissed, revealed that many lawmakers on Capitol Hill had questions about Biden\u2019s mental acuity after many said his aging was apparent in private meetings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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