General Discussion

The donor class has clearly drawn the line in the sand: get Biden out or we will cut off funding to your congressional campaigns.

Pelosi and Schumer, above everything, care more about winning at the congressional level than they do the presidential. If the options were to win the House and the Senate, but lose the presidency, or win the presidency but fail to win the House and Senate, I have no doubt Pelosi and Schumer would choose the former every single time. And I can't necessarily fault them because they're legislators - not executives.

With that said, we have enough evidence about the pinch from the donors.

Here's just one example:



My guess is that they are terrified of losing the donor class more than they are terrified of Trump winning.

It's not about winning at this point. If it was, they'd at least present a viable pathway forward and a candidate to replace Biden. But none of that exists. Their concern is to drive Biden out and then pivot to get that money back from the donor class.