‘A Tremendous Disadvantage’: Williams on Dems Calling for Embargoes to Donate to Biden’s Campaign

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
HASNIE: “A lot of news going on in Washington. Juan, I want to start with you because there is a developing story from “the Washington Post, although there are plenty of Democrats that are going to wait before they speak, they want to watch this interview with ABC first. We’re hearing that Senator Mark Warner, according to this reporting is trying to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask the president to exit the race. And “the Washington Post” writes this: among the options under consideration is a meeting at the White House between senators and Biden. Even if some senators do not want Biden to drop out, they could use that forum to air candidate concerns in person. On top of that, governor Maura Healey of Massachusetts a big Biden ally also issued a statement today reading this: the best way forward right now is a decision for the president to make. I urge him to listen to the American people and carefully evaluate whether he remains our best hope to defeat Donald Trump. So, Juan, is this just Democrats waiting for the president to make the inevitable choice?”
WILLIAMS: “I don’t know what the inevitable choice would be. I think right now the idea is to persuade him to do what’s best for the party. Seems to me there are two critical things that happened today. One is the Mark Warner story. And Warner’s camp refuses to confirm or deny it. Which, to me, is a confirmation. And it means that you have powerful senators Warner in Virginia, senior person in the Senate, willing to organize people in the mode of, you know, Barry Goldwater who went to Nixon and said it’s time to go. And that is just part of it. But it’s now very prominent. But the larger part of it, Aishah, is that all those democratic congressmen coming back next week, coming together. They’re worried about Biden’s impact down-ballot. And you can imagine that they are also anxious to go to the White House, to speak directly with Biden, to try to persuade him that something is going on. And there’s a third pillar to this mix, the donor class. You touched on it in the package. I thought it was terrific because what you are see something is like the guy at Netflix Hastings. Disney heiress.”
HASNIE: “They are asking for embargoes to donate until the president steps aside.”
WILLIAMS: “Correct, they are threatening even that some of this money would go to the down-ballot candidates. That’s a tremendous disadvantage. If you are Anita Dunn or the campaign manager, you are saying where are we going forward here? We don’t have the ammunition.”