But she was part of the winning administration, people voted for her as VP just as much as they voted for Biden as president!
Why do you feel properly represented by random delegates you know nothing about and have never voted for?
If we are obligated to entertain REPLACE discourse (we aren't, its stupid): Replacing the black VP with a randomly selected white candidate using some made-up process is unethical, undemocratic, and also absolutely guaranteed to give Trump the White House.
How is having 4700 partisan democrats from every state in the country vote on the nominee the same as “randomly selecting” someone? Why does Harris being Black mean she is the *only* option? Is that the way to win in November?
The primary is decided. You don't like the outcome (because you're worried about Trump), so you're requesting some new process that nobody has agreed to and would be forced on us by unidentified administrators and the NYT op-ed board. Harris gets the nom by default because she's VP.
The VP's entire job is: break ties in the Senate and replace the president if something bad happens. I don't think replacing Biden will happen and its a perilously stupid idea, but if the party goes through with it Harris is the nomination.
Legally she's the only person with access to his gigantic campaign haul. Politically she is in the line of succession and her entire purpose is to take over in an emergency. Politically, you cannot let the white NYT op-ed board replace a black VP without some awful electoral consequences.
I would recommend you take a deep breath and consider whether one bad debate that has failed to substantially change the polls is worth lighting a campaign on fire over. If you affirmatively believe it is, you might want to ask why white writers should have more power than black voters.
You're scared of Trump. We are all scared of Trump. Despite being a giant orange piss baby, his agenda is scary. Don't let fear make you stupid. The week-long "BIDEN MUST DROP OUT!" frenzy is laughably dishonest and something every D candidate will face from the NYT no matter what.
It ain't 1 to 1 but this whole thing is putting me in mind of the story of br'er rabbit and br'er fox and the briar patch story. Br'er rabbit tricks the fox into throwing him in the briar patch so he can escape by making the ol' fox think getting thrown in the patch is the last thing he wants.
Where did I say white voters should have more power than black voters????? The delegates to the democratic convention surely include people of every demographic including a healthy number of black women.
Because removing her, by whatever means, risks massively alienating the largest demographic of Democratic voters — Black voters — which *no one* has succeeded in winning either the Dem primary or a general without the support of since 1964.
She would not be removed! She would compete. Black voters picked Biden in 2020, not Harris or Booker or Deval Patrick. It’s racist to say black voters care more about identity than about winning the damn election in November.
"Surprise the position you were guaranteed is now a free-for-all special bonus election with rules we just made up" is removal. She could win it again, but its already hers.
Plenty of people voted for her to be the nominee, that’s what a POTUS/VP ticket *is*.
And frankly, you have yet to give any argument as to why she shouldn’t be in this hypothetical scenario other than “just because.”
