Harris as president policy wise wouldn't be much different from Biden. The issue is she has not proven to be a good campaigned aside from beating other Democrats in CA, which isn't a good metric to judge a national politician. She flamed out badly in the primary.
The fact that all these pundits and many problem openly calling for Biden to…
Harris as president policy wise wouldn't be much different from Biden. The issue is she has not proven to be a good campaigned aside from beating other Democrats in CA, which isn't a good metric to judge a national politician. She flamed out badly in the primary.
The fact that all these pundits and many problem openly calling for Biden to step down from the campaign are floating other random Democrats that are not the vice president says it all.
Right now the fractured nature of the Democratic coalition is showing. Like many people are optimistic about Biden stepping down and their preferred candidate or some "consensus candidate" coming into save them. Yet it's not immediately apparent such a person exists.
In fact it seems any Biden replacement will immediately cause a disruption and lead to more in-fighting.
If Harris isn't chosen she needs to make it very clear that she supports whomever is chosen or else you are going to have Harris fans(which there are some very dedicated ones) will throw a complete tantrum. The narrative will spin very much out of control fast.
They will likely also need to have an open convention and people will accuse the party of not being "democratic."
If a white guy is chosen they will he accused of racism if a non-white guy is chosen they will he accused of "DEI" or playing "identity politics."
It's a mess if Biden stays in due to the fact that many people won normally support him have called on him to suspend his campaign as well.
No matter what it's a mess. Usually the "The Democrats are in disarray" headlines are hyperbole. Not right now.
Harris as president policy wise wouldn't be much different from Biden. The issue is she has not proven to be a good campaigned aside from beating other Democrats in CA, which isn't a good metric to judge a national politician. She flamed out badly in the primary.
The fact that all these pundits and many problem openly calling for Biden to step down from the campaign are floating other random Democrats that are not the vice president says it all.
Right now the fractured nature of the Democratic coalition is showing. Like many people are optimistic about Biden stepping down and their preferred candidate or some "consensus candidate" coming into save them. Yet it's not immediately apparent such a person exists.
In fact it seems any Biden replacement will immediately cause a disruption and lead to more in-fighting.
If Harris isn't chosen she needs to make it very clear that she supports whomever is chosen or else you are going to have Harris fans(which there are some very dedicated ones) will throw a complete tantrum. The narrative will spin very much out of control fast.
They will likely also need to have an open convention and people will accuse the party of not being "democratic."
If a white guy is chosen they will he accused of racism if a non-white guy is chosen they will he accused of "DEI" or playing "identity politics."
It's a mess if Biden stays in due to the fact that many people won normally support him have called on him to suspend his campaign as well.
No matter what it's a mess. Usually the "The Democrats are in disarray" headlines are hyperbole. Not right now.