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mystery-ak:
May 22, 2024
If the Dems ditch Biden, what then?
By Mark C. Ross

Douglas MacKinnon, writing in The Hill, recently suggested that the Democrats were going to nominate somebody else at their August convention.  No problem here — and his reason is that Ol’ Joe is so unpopular that anybody else would do better against Trump.  But how much better?

Besides the obvious problem of the horrible optics that come with dumping the nation’s chief executive in front of the whole world, there’s also the problem of timing.  August is perhaps way too late to grab a fresh candidate out of (ahem) a rather limited bullpen.  Actually, all of 2024 is way too late from the standpoint of political feasibility.  FYI, Lyndon Johnson withdrew consideration for his second full term on March 31, 1968 — in the face of similar distress within his party — and Johnson was a much more astute politician than Biden...which still didn’t help Hubert Humphrey at all.

Others are also speculating that Biden’s abrupt commitment to debate Trump was really a move by party insiders to expedite Biden’s collapse and subsequent withdrawal.  But to what end?

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DB:
Both candidates are widely disliked.

A sudden alternative may well win in a landslide. It takes time to find out the negative details of a candidate and with little time left that may well work in their favor.

This situation is unlike any from the past to reference to.

PeteS in CA:
Cankles - Cackles 2024

LMAO:
There is a lot of risks for Democrats to replace Biden at this point

But I can’t see Biden doing a full campaign season. He can’t finish two sentences even with a teleprompter . And his handlers and the press  are  having a more difficult time hiding his decline from the public

Fishrrman:
ol' white joe isn't going to make it through a second term.
Everyone knows that.

He might not even make it until his second term.

What to do... what to do...?
How about... "The Great Switcheroo" ???

joe bows out either just before or during the DCommunist convention, taking kamala with him.

Start up the smoky backrooms.
Who will then get the nod...?

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