Who would have thought that a sub-par candidate even as to the last election would be doing worse a few years removed from a sense of urgency (and you cannot credibly argue that the sense of urgency is the same in 2024)?
It's almost as if maybe you should have had a real primary.
It was logical risk adversity. Real primary means factional inter-party attacks. If Biden loses or steps down, does he endorse Harris who has worse unfavorable ratings than him, or does he not and offend a coalition constituency. And all of name recognition in the party is to the left of Biden
With the exception of Manchin who would go over like a lead balloon. It’s easy to foresee why running Biden could go FUBAR. It was not clear how an alternative would be better. So status quo bias wins out until it becomes intolerable.
