President Joe Biden faces a rebellion from wealthy Democratic donors after his debate performance against Donald Trump.

Abigail Disney, the granddaughter to Roy O. Disney, who cofounded The Walt Disney Company, told CNBC on Thursday that she plans to withhold donations to the party she has funded for years until Biden drops out. The president has said he has no plans to withdraw from the race, despite calls for him to do so.

“I intend to stop any contributions to the party unless and until they replace Biden at the top of the ticket. This is realism, not disrespect. Biden is a good man and has served his country admirably, but the stakes are far too high,” Abigail Disney said in a lengthy statement to CNBC. “If Biden does not step down the Democrats will lose. Of that I am absolutely certain. The consequences for the loss will be genuinely dire.”

    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
      55·
      6 months ago

      In the 2016 DNC Primaries:

      15,805,136 people voted for Hillary Clinton before considering Delegate allotment, 16,847,084 after.

      12,029,699 people voted for Bernie Sanders.

      If we didn’t have a nation of 340 Million Fuckwits then maybe we could get more than 5% of the population to select our future leaders.

      • doctordevice
        63·
        6 months ago

        Oh, come on. You can’t justify a corrupt process by pointing to the final results of the corrupt process.

        • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
          45·
          6 months ago

          No but I can justify a democratic process by pointing to the much much higher number of people voting for the candidate who won.

          • doctordevice
            53·
            6 months ago

            …In an unfair election with the organizing body tipping the scale all throughout the process. So no, you can’t point to the votes to wave away the corruption that influenced those votes.

              • doctordevice
                42·
                6 months ago

                You need to grapple with this and figure out how to acknowledge the damage the DNC did to the party in 2016. You are only continuing to hurt party unity by pretending it didn’t happen.

                I’m not saying Bernie would definitely have won or anything. Chances are Hillary would have won in a fair election anyway. I’m saying the people were robbed of a fair election so we can’t know what would have happened. If you’re truly interested in justifying democracy you should be outraged by that rather than denying it.

                But sure, a pithy “lmao” definitely does the trick too.

                  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
                    11·
                    6 months ago

                    People are selecting from candidates chosen by two private parties. “You’ll vote for who we tell you to vote for” isn’t very democratic.