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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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/if_the_dems_ditch_biden_what_then.html
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