This is exactly where I’ve been for the past few days—though I had a helpful conversation with someone here last night that reassured me that a switch from Biden to Harris presents as many opportunities as risks. So I’m feeling a little better about the world today.
Not that anyone is asking me, but I have no idea what the Democrats should do right now. All the options seem bad, and there isn’t one that seems less bad than the others. And as a professional opinion-haver, it’s disorienting to have no strong opinion about something so enormously consequential.
It’s the people who want to somehow skip Harris that freak me out.
I think the “Biden decline” thing seems very dumb, but that the campaign has responded so poorly that 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️.
But trying to skip Harris — when I’ve yet to see a detailed and credible plan for how that could even work! — seems…bad.
The states have rules for being on the ballot! I do not know them all, but there are around 50 different sets, and I have seen people point out that it wouldn’t fly in x or y or Ohio or the House, and I’m pretty sure if there were a state-by-state breakdown someone (you lol) would have linked it.
#3: Surely Biden could just write a big ol' check? That is an Official Act, thus immune from campaign finance laws, right? (Or at least isn't that T's argument in NY?)
