Heard a Democratic member of Congress on cable news counter the dire polling data by pointing out how loud a Wisconsin crowd had cheered at a recent Biden rally.
Maybe replacing him now would be worse. I don't know. But it does feel like his defenders aren't grasping the extent of the problem.
I feel like too many people on here are not facing the facts about the extremely desperate and dismal electoral situation Biden is in.
If you just take the states where Trump is up MORE THAN THREE POINTS in the polling average (a massive lead), he's already got the Electoral College locked.
Assuming all the arguments for replacing him are true, they still run up against the problem of being impracticable without Biden's assent. So, if he continues his refusal to step aside, how long will critics continue the full-court pressure campaign? To the convention? To November?
Completely valid point! As others have pointed out, of all the bad options, a few prominent Democrats coming forward each day to call for him to step down is pretty much the worst possible way to handle this.
So naturally that's what they're doing.
I think his two best options are (a) stay in the race to the end, or (b) resign the Presidency immediately so Kamala gets the benefits of campaigning as the sitting President. Any middle ground seems like slow death. But maybe the party professionals know better than I do...
It's not clearly a great idea even if he does that. You'd have to assume everyone agrees on the new candidate.
The incumbent benefit comes from familiarity. Having Harris as POTUS for a few months, especially as a result of this wacky plot, is not going to duplicate a normal reelection.
With due respect, what are you even talking about? Online discourse aside, the antiBiden faction is largely the big money donors and conservadems who hated Bernie in both of the last election cycles.
You are erroneously assuming my wariness about the current putsch is based on conservatism, since your stated position is to keep fighting "until you admit they were right."
