I'm not sure that the Democrat party has any good options.
1) Biden as candidate, loses. Probably loses the House and Senate as well.
2) Biden steps aside for Harris. She loses. Probably loses the House and Senate as well.
3) Biden steps aside (or is somehow forced out), and the attempt is made to remove Harris as well, it fails. Party is fractured. Blacks stay at home (at best). They lose both the House and Senate.
4) Biden steps aside (or is somehow forced out), and the attempt is made to remove Harris as well, it succeeds. Party is fractured. If the new candidate is not black, blacks stay at home. If the new candidate is not female, females stay at home (mix and match your identity politics as you prefer). They lose both the House and Senate.
5) Neither Biden nor Harris actively dispute their replacement. Who runs? I can't think of a single candidate that has a track record (or some significant issue) that doesn't work against them. Any Democrat with sufficient standing in the party to run has already publicly embraced the radical shift to the left. Tulsi Gabbard could have made it work, but she was hounded into exile.
I'm not sure this isn't a generational (possibly multi-generational) failure of the party and its acolytes. Possibly the Libertarians step up to fill the vacuum?
1) Biden as candidate, loses. Probably loses the House and Senate as well.
2) Biden steps aside for Harris. She loses. Probably loses the House and Senate as well.
3) Biden steps aside (or is somehow forced out), and the attempt is made to remove Harris as well, it fails. Party is fractured. Blacks stay at home (at best). They lose both the House and Senate.
4) Biden steps aside (or is somehow forced out), and the attempt is made to remove Harris as well, it succeeds. Party is fractured. If the new candidate is not black, blacks stay at home. If the new candidate is not female, females stay at home (mix and match your identity politics as you prefer). They lose both the House and Senate.
5) Neither Biden nor Harris actively dispute their replacement. Who runs? I can't think of a single candidate that has a track record (or some significant issue) that doesn't work against them. Any Democrat with sufficient standing in the party to run has already publicly embraced the radical shift to the left. Tulsi Gabbard could have made it work, but she was hounded into exile.
I'm not sure this isn't a generational (possibly multi-generational) failure of the party and its acolytes. Possibly the Libertarians step up to fill the vacuum?
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