Bad News for Biden

Bad news for Joe Biden. The latest Monmouth Poll, released Monday, shows him at 19% running behind Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who are both at 20%.  Yesterday, Lambert Strether added some atmosphere in the form of a reader's eyewitness account of Biden's appearance at Dartmouth College on Friday, August 23:

Then Biden came out. As I said last night, very frail, fragile, and super thin. Slow, deliberate steps. Skin was tissue-papery and getting to that translucent stage that very elderly people can have. I was so shocked. He looks at least 85-90, not 76. And I’ve seen healthier, more vibrant 90-year olds!

After the Dartmouth appearance FOX's Tucker Carlson confidently predicted that Biden would not be the Democratic Party's nominee.

What is no doubt causing panic in the corporate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee is the Monmouth Poll also illustrates how far distant all the also-ran neoliberals remain:

Senator Kamala Harris of California remained steady with 8 percent support. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey gained slightly, from 2 percent in June to 4 percent in August. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., got 4 percent, compared with 5 percent in June.

How much longer will the DNC brain trust engage in the fantasy of a Buttigieg or Harris nomination?

Clearly the task before the neoliberal ruling elite is to guide the voters abandoning Biden's sinking candidacy in the direction of Elizabeth Warren's campaign, and then co-opt Warren, principally through a New Cold War foreign policy, to which she already basically pledges allegiance.

This is only meaningful route available to the DNCers. Because for every day dithered away in daydreams of Kamala, that is a day that Bernie Sanders gobbles up defectors from Joe Biden's failing campaign.