bouie is literally the only person on the NYT board who is behaving and responding to the debate like a professional that has followed and covered a presidential election. i mean that seriously, i'm not being snarky.
if you actually get *paid* to write about politics for a living, screaming that the nominee has to drop out after one bad debate *in june* (and one in which the challenger did not do well, either), you are unqualified for your job and your salary
Biden steps down. Harris is muscled aside in favor of Andy Beshear. Jim Clyburn and other high ranking blacl Democrats says “wait a sec, why are we elevating Harris?” what happens next?
“buh you just love identity politics” doesn’t get around the fact that parties are coalitions, Harris has a real and influential constituency, and ignoring it could prove a problem.
right, like, the natural question to this hypothetical replacement candidate is "what would you, as president, do differently than the biden administration has done", and i doubt you find anyone willing to discuss that
people want to believe that you can just swap out biden no harm no foul, but there is nothing about this system as constituted that allows that. but rather than grapple with this, the response is basically to scream “nuh uh”
What no one has mentioned is Ohio GOP tried to block Biden from even being on the ballot & it took the governor intervention to make sure he would be on (despite following all the rules)
You just going to replace him & expect no GOP shenanigans
Whomever replaces him might not even be on all ballots
And even then, he’ll probably be the candidate on the ballot in the majority of states, so the person running will have to run the messaging in those states to vote for Biden.
Seriously. Especially if there's a genuine risk of a floor fight, because then those states can honestly say "we have no idea what's going to happen in August"
bsky.app/profile/cyne...
If this really was "the cold messed him up", then it's "take some time to recover, and plan to campaign through a tough schedule"
If that's not the issue...then it's time to double-check ballot access laws and how to get the nomination to Harris.
Do they seriously believe that instead of a Biden surrogate who appeals to a key demographic like James Clyburn or Jasmine Crockett or Jamie Harrison or a Muslim celebrity, they’re going to have crazy-eyed hipster in keffiyeh stand up to nominate Gretchen Whitmer or Gavin Newsom or whoever? JFC.
There is a 0.00‰ possibility of a floor fight.
The delegates were already elected, and they’re all pledged to vote for Biden/Harris in the first round.
Clyburn or whoever will nominate them, literally every delegate will stand up, and they will be the nominee. The End.
Veep was pretty accurate.
