The president’s conversation is the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta. A White House official said the claim was false.
I personally think the only viable candidate is Kamala, not for her competence, but strictly due to her position as VP. In theory, the party can pick whoever they want at contested convention, but voters would feel severely disenfranchised if they pick someone without involving a legitimate primary and input from single regular person (delegates are chosen party apparatchik, not real people). It would take a lot of corralling, wheeling and dealing to get Kamala, or other aspiring wannabes (e.g., Newsom, Whitmer, etc.) to bend the knee to the party chosen one - they also risk fracturing the base. All of the current presidential wannabes are still losing to Trump, every single one of them (just not as bad as Biden). Furthermore, people like Newsom and Mayo Pete might not want to have just 3-4 months to run the biggest campaign of their life to the highest office, they might wait out until 2028 instead to run a proper campaign. As such, the only obvious sacrificial lamb/viable candidate is Copmala, it is literally her duty to step up if Joe step down.
Replacing Genocide Joe with Harris instead of some unelected party apparatchik would probably also be an easier sell to the voting public. She has literally been elected to replace him and there's few things libs love more than following rules and procedures.
I disagree that she was elected, she performed comically poorly in the primaries and only got the pick because the optics of a black woman in the office made Segregation Joe look 5% less racist. In a way she's the same as how Biden became Obama's VP because he was a racist white guy.
I personally think the only viable candidate is Kamala, not for her competence, but strictly due to her position as VP. In theory, the party can pick whoever they want at contested convention, but voters would feel severely disenfranchised if they pick someone without involving a legitimate primary and input from single regular person (delegates are chosen party apparatchik, not real people). It would take a lot of corralling, wheeling and dealing to get Kamala, or other aspiring wannabes (e.g., Newsom, Whitmer, etc.) to bend the knee to the party chosen one - they also risk fracturing the base. All of the current presidential wannabes are still losing to Trump, every single one of them (just not as bad as Biden). Furthermore, people like Newsom and Mayo Pete might not want to have just 3-4 months to run the biggest campaign of their life to the highest office, they might wait out until 2028 instead to run a proper campaign. As such, the only obvious sacrificial lamb/viable candidate is Copmala, it is literally her duty to step up if Joe step down.
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True societal equality is when a mixed Indian-Jamaican-American woman cop-prosecutor can fail upward just like white men
Replacing Genocide Joe with Harris instead of some unelected party apparatchik would probably also be an easier sell to the voting public. She has literally been elected to replace him and there's few things libs love more than following rules and procedures.
I disagree that she was elected, she performed comically poorly in the primaries and only got the pick because the optics of a black woman in the office made Segregation Joe look 5% less racist. In a way she's the same as how Biden became Obama's VP because he was a racist white guy.