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    Republicans say Biden is ‘unfit to serve’ and should resign

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    Now that President Joe Biden has surprisingly and widely dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, Republicans around the world are calling for the Democrat to step down altogether.

    “If Joe Biden is not fit to run for president, he is not fit to serve as president. He must resign immediately. November 5th cannot come soon enough,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., wrote on his X account Sunday afternoon, shortly after Biden had his LBJ moment.

    Several Republicans in the House of Representatives said the same thing.

    “If Joe Biden is unable to run for re-election, he is incapable and unfit to serve as president of the United States,” Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said in a statement. “He must resign immediately,” the chair of the House GOP conference said in a statement.

    It wasn’t just House members. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told The Federalist that he would support using the 25th Amendment — the Constitution’s presidential disability and succession mechanism — to remove the clearly cognitively impaired president from his duties.

    “Anything we can do to replace him is probably a good idea, but that’s not my decision,” Johnson said.

    Senator Markwayne Mullin (Oklahoma Republican) agreed.

    “If Joe Biden is not fit to run for re-election, he is not fit to serve his term,” Mullin wrote on X. “25th Amendment.”

    Trump expressed his party’s sentiments on his social networking platform Truth Social.

    “The corrupt Joe Biden was not fit to run for president, and is certainly not fit to serve – and never has been!” he wrote, adding that “we will suffer tremendously because of his presidency, but we will repair the damage he has done very quickly.”

    The invocation of the 25th is the call of Biden’s Vice President, Kamala Harris, the woman who has endorsed Biden in an open race to succeed Biden at the top of the ticket. It would be highly unlikely that Harris would use the Constitution to forcibly remove the man who has just endorsed her. Not that the Biden administration has been all that interested in the Constitution during its time in office.

    The Hill reported that U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., will introduce a resolution in the House of Representatives on Monday calling on Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment to impeach the 46th president.

    Democrats are very familiar with the 25th Amendment. For years, they pushed to get rid of then-President Donald Trump, the GOP’s newly nominated presidential candidate, by falsely claiming that Trump was what Biden is: cognitively impaired. The amendment states that, “When the Vice President and a majority of the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”

    ‘In the best interest’

    In his letter, Biden boasted about what he believes his administration has accomplished in the face of an unpopular record fraught with economic and national security turbulence, and promised to speak to the nation later and provide more details about his decision.

    “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” Biden said in a letter released Sunday. “And while my intention was to be re-elected, I believe it is in the best interests of my party and the country that I step down and focus solely on fulfilling the duties of my president for the remainder of my term.

    “Let me now express my deepest gratitude to all who worked so hard to see me re-elected,” the beleaguered president added.

    As Johnson noted, Biden’s supporters — and their list appears to be shrinking, at least in Congress and left-wing fundraising circles, since his disastrous debate performance last month — have effectively been disenfranchised in the latest twist in history.

    “At this unprecedented moment in American history, we must be clear about what has just happened. The Democratic Party has removed the Democratic nominee from the ballot, just over 100 days before the election,” the speaker wrote. “By invalidating the votes of over 14 million Americans who chose Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, the self-proclaimed ‘party of democracy’ has proven the exact opposite.”

    It’s about the party, not the man

    The Republican Party, fresh from a rousing national convention in Milwaukee just days after its leader narrowly survived an assassination attempt, is already pushing the idea that it doesn’t matter who wins the Democratic nomination. Left-wing policies, they say, would perpetuate the devastation Biden has wrought over the past three and a half years.

    Senator Johnson has long urged the Republican Party and voters to focus on the Democrats’ failed policies, not their candidate. Like other political observers, Johnson said he did not believe Biden would make it past the Dems’ nominating convention in Chicago next month.

    But the senator predicted that Democrats and their allies in the media sector will quickly celebrate Biden’s successor as America’s messiah, after jointly calling for a head for the senile old man they elected in 2020.

    “They’re going to say now that Kamala Harris is so talented, so articulate,” and popular within the party, Johnson said. Of course, the data and the polls show otherwise.

    ‘Joe Biden should resign’

    Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison pledged that the party “will undertake a transparent and orderly process to move forward as a united Democratic Party with a candidate who can defeat Donald Trump in November.”

    “This process will be governed by established Party rules and procedures. Our representatives are prepared to take seriously their responsibility to quickly deliver a candidate to the American people,” the chairman added.

    There’s a first time for everything. Just ask the campaigns of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Bernie Sanders how “transparent” the DNC nomination process has been over the years.

    The reason the Democrats are in this political predicament is that they and their media partners could no longer hide Biden’s sharp cognitive decline after the debate. Biden’s performance was so shocking to the American people that the Democrats’ game was up. They would have dragged the rapidly failing old man to the finish line of the November election if they had been able to avoid the uncontrollable public appearances they did in 2020.

    Now that Biden has been unmasked, Republicans are asking a critical question.

    “Joe Biden is too weak and too soft to be prosecuted. He is too weak and too soft to campaign. How is he strong enough to continue to serve as commander in chief of the strongest country in the world? Joe Biden should resign,” said U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.

    Matt Kittle is a senior election correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast and online journalism, Kittle previously served as executive director of Empower Wisconsin.

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