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.”

    • upto60percentoff
      20•5 months ago

      You think Biden is a legitimately good candidate and not just worth rallying behind to stop Trump?

        • upto60percentoff
          24•5 months ago

          That’s literally “making the best of a bad system”

          You don’t like the choice you’re making, but you’re picking what you perceive as the “least bad”.

            • upto60percentoff
              13•5 months ago

              You think the US’s implementation of democracy that forces you to pick the least bad between two candidates you don’t like is

              • A good system
              • The only implementation of a democracy

              ?

              And that’s without getting started on the electoral college.

                • @[email protected]English
                  11•5 months ago

                  You know there are other forms of democracy right? This isn’t the only way to select an executive, and many of those systems aren’t about choosing the least bad option.

                • upto60percentoff
                  9•5 months ago

                  What parts of the system that make it bad are anti-democratic elements - which are not particularly relevant in whether my choice should be Biden or Trump.

                  Or in other words, the system you’re in is flawed but you’re working within the constraints of those flaws to get the best outcome you can find.

                  Making the best of a bad system

                  The US is only in this predicament because the system it has currently allowed a candidate who lost the popular vote in 2016 to get into an office that had enough power to meaningfully damage the country.

                  However it’s clear from your repeated and deliberate attempts to reframe criticism of that system as an attack on the very concept of democracy itself that you aren’t arguing in good faith here.