Hunter Walker: I mean, I don't think it's fully as simple procedurally as some make it out to me but the nominee is chosen at the convention and Kamala Harris becomes president if he steps down. The devil will be in the details but it's not unserious at all. Many in the party are discussing this.

Just talked with a Democratic member of Congress about Biden. They told me: "This is like Lehman Brothers in 2008 where everyone said the company is going nowhere, it was fine, and then all of a sudden it wasn't."

The Dem member of Congress who spoke to me also said, "I don't know if Biden can win at this point and that frightens me."

According to the Dem member of Congress, I spoke to, before this news leaked out, Warner had real momentum. They said Warner has "a really good number of very consequential senators" willing to tell Biden to drop out. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Sen. Mark Warner works to gather Senate Democrats to ask Biden to exit racewww.washingtonpost.com Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to go to the White House on Monday and ask that Joe Biden exit the presidential race, according to two people with dir...

The Dem member of Congress I spoke to said "African Americans are the most formidable bloc" in discussions of Biden's future. "If their delegation is more loyal to having a Black woman than they are to their state party orgs than it is Kamala's."

They went on to say if Black electeds "just want an African American" on the ticket and are less personally loyal to Kamala Harris "then, it's open."

Sorry, so this is a member of congress saying the process they think we should follow is to: ask black elected officials if they want to dump Biden, then if they do, ask if they care which black person replaces him? Trying to understand the planning here because it sounds very half baked

Like, this sounds to me like more confirmation that these are deeply unserious people. What mechanism does this individual think would allow someone other than Harris to take over? Do they have access to a secret polling average that shows a massive drop in support that they can show the rest of us?

I mean, I don't think it's fully as simple procedurally as some make it out to me but the nominee is chosen at the convention and Kamala Harris becomes president if he steps down. The devil will be in the details but it's not unserious at all. Many in the party are discussing this.

I guess at this point I have a lot of trouble taking anyone seriously as a political strategist who thinks there are more than two possibilities: Biden or Harris. When someone puts out the possibility of someone else, makes me think they have no real awareness of the chaos that would create

And in terms of taking over if they want to push Harris aside for some reason, I don't just mean the convention procedure but like, campaign finance implications and the like. At a minimum, I'd want to know if they've even thought about that to guage whether they're thinking this through

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