Aaron Huertas: That might be similar to questions about do you want another (generic) Democrat to run. The main inciting piece here is Democratic House members, DNC delegates and donors going on background to reporters.

I think what's being swatted down as "elite opinion" from NYT/Crooked types is actually the piercing of a bubble from below. Most voters haven't wanted Biden to run again for literally years.

I think there’s a difference between the widespread longstanding belief that Biden’s too old and a sudden elite panic about how propping him up seems to have failed so now it’s time for smart people to pick a new winner in a brokered convention

Fair though CBS poll this morning says 45% of Dems want him off the ticket. That's not a constituency that can be disregarded as "bedwetters"

That might be similar to questions about do you want another (generic) Democrat to run. The main inciting piece here is Democratic House members, DNC delegates and donors going on background to reporters.

Right but is that because 1) they could no longer ignore what voters were seeing all along and 2) the debate made apparent how it could cost them their *own* seat? Has Biden been saved this whole time by the fact most down ballot Dems are polling ahead of him?

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