Running, but not going anywhere.

Former President Donald Trump was shot in his right ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. "According to a White House spokesperson, the suspect and at least one attendee were killed, while two others were injured." The FBI has apparently taken over the investigation. This is the same FBI which, "Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden's son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings. The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden's laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son's business dealings in Ukraine." BBC. The FBI also influenced Twitter (now known as X). According to a letter from chairman Jim Jordan (R, Ohio) to FBI director Christopher Wray, "Put simply, after the FBI conditioned social media companies to believe that the laptop was the product of a hack-and-dump operation, the Bureau stopped its information sharing, allowing social media companies to conclude that the New York Post story was Russian disinformation." NR. Thus, the FBI actively influenced the election of 2020 in Joe Biden's favor and proved that the Deep State  (wikipedia) is real. At the very least, Joe Biden was guilty of rent seeking (CFI). Now, "A growing number of Democrats are calling on Joe Biden to end his presidential re-election bid and step aside for a younger contender. Concerns over his poor debate performance have spread over the past fortnight among politicians, donors and others within the party." BBC. "US election has taken a very shocking turn with new claims being made that former President Barack Obama is secretly working to ensure Joe Biden drops out of the race to the White House. And this 'resentful treatment' is making Biden dig in further." HT. Enjoying the confusion among the Democrats, "Trump remained uncharacteristically quiet, letting Democrats argue among themselves. Republican strategists claim the relative silence is down to Tromp's new-found discipline - a change from his 2016 and 2020 campaigns." BBC. Biden is determined to stay in the race. At a rally in Detroit he said. "I am running and we are going to win." "I'm the nominee. I'm not going anywhere." Reuters. Going into their August convention, most Democrats are "terrified by nearly every scenario: Going forward with Biden, a Kamala Harris nomination, a nomination of someone else who would in that case have beaten the first black female vice-president,...even just revelations of embarrassing details about people who have never been vetted by a national campaign." CNN. Or it may be that Biden, and Democrats, do not want Trump to investigate the 2020 election. "Two-thirds of Republican voters (and nearly 3 in 10 Americans) continue to believe that the 2020 election was stolen from him (Trump), and that Biden was not lawfully elected." Conversation. Biden is ratcheting up the pressure on Democrats by refusing to stand down. "President Joe Biden's resistance to pressure to end his reelection bid appears to be a strategy aimed at running out the clock, a play to leave his party so little time to come up with another candidate that his opponents stand down." National Herald. In the NFL, taking a knee to run out the clock is done to preserve a winning lead. sportslingo.com. But, Biden is refusing to bend. Trump got a bullet in his ear. Biden is shooting his own side. Extremely weird.