Langston Johnson: I was originally on the someone other than Harris should be the nominee train but looking at the polling Harris seems to have the best shot of winning thought the data does not include how JB Pritzker or Wes Moore would do against Trump www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...

Biden will retire very popular if he bows out (esp if someone other than Harris is the nominee) because right wing media, and those in centrist media who just reiterate RW stories, will immediately pivot away to attacking whoever the nominee is instead.

One factoid about the LBJ precedent - his approval rating surged after he bailed out of the 1968 race. Dipped again over the chaotic summer but we'll never know what the dynamic would have been if Biden was going out as a one-term elder statesman. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/d...

Lyndon B. Johnson Public Approval | The American Presidency Projectwww.presidency.ucsb.edu

I was originally on the someone other than Harris should be the nominee train but looking at the polling Harris seems to have the best shot of winning thought the data does not include how JB Pritzker or Wes Moore would do against Trump www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...

CNN Poll: Most voters think Democrats have a better chance of keeping White House if Biden isn’t the nominee | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Three-quarters of US voters say the Democratic Party would have a better shot at holding the presidency in 2024 with someone other than President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, according to a new...

JB Pritzger and Wes Moore have zero name recognition. They could come to your town, rob the bank in broad daylight not wearing a mask, and it would take weeks off examining the surveillance footage before anyone decided they might be suspects. Any success they get nationally is generic guy pulling.

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