It would be ‘“unprecedented” for another candidate to build a campaign to beat Donald Trump on such short notice, experts wrote for Time.
The Democratic Party likely does not have enough time to replace President Joe Biden with another candidate for the November election if the 81-year-old drops out, two analysts have written in Time magazine. The party is said to be scrambling after Biden’s “disastrous” debate performance against Donald Trump last week.
During the debate, a seemingly frail and confused Biden struggled to speak clearly, mixed up his words and appeared to lose his train of thought completely on several occasions.
Biden’s lackluster performance has reportedly caused panic within the Democratic Party and led to numerous major donors calling for him to be replaced on the party’s ticket for the November 5 election.
However, according to the two analysts writing for Time, it would be “unprecedented” for any other candidate to be able to step into the breach in such a short time.
While Biden has shown no intention of dropping out, the outlet noted that if he does, the “nomination process in such a rushed contest may prove to be so divisive that the party could be worse off.”
The Time article pointed out that at this point in the race there would be “no clear frontrunner” for the party’s nomination. Vice President Kamala Harris trails Trump in the polls “far worse” than Biden himself.
The outlet observed that while there are other “appealing choices,” such as Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, these candidates also come with “drawbacks” and would have great difficulty building out a full-fledged campaign so late in the race.
Meanwhile, the future of Biden’s own reelection campaign remains uncertain. The president and his team have stressed that they have no plans to drop out of the race and publicly the Democratic Party has also reaffirmed its support of the aging president.
Privately, however, media reports suggest that the party’s top brass, including former President Barack Obama, are concerned that Biden will not be able to beat Trump in November and have suggested holding an open contest to decide a new candidate at the upcoming Democratic National Convention in August.
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If they hadn’t cheated and stolen the 2020 election, Trump would be finishing up his second term right now, Pence would be stalling in the polls (he was never anywhere near as popular as Trump), and Biden would be playing bingo in an old age home somewhere. The Dems might have been able to run someone new, someone younger who could generate the same kind of enthusiasm with their base that Barack Obama did in 2008. NONE of their current woes would exist right now.
They shouldn’t have stolen that election. They won the battle but lost the war. The American general public are sick and tired of them, disgusted with their dirty politics and their constant lying and cheating. THATS why every petty underhanded trick they try to use against Trump, every fake criminal charge and every snide and b*tchy debate question the fake news pundits bark at him, all of it only BOOSTS his poll numbers further.
No one’s buying what they’re selling anymore. They DESERVE to be “scrambling”, they deserve to be the absolute laughingstock they’ve become.
STOP STEALING ELECTIONS A**HOLES! Let the people have the leader they choose, or the hole you’ve been digging for yourselves is just going to keep getting deeper.
Agree with what you wrote. However, there are a few moving parts here.
The question is if Biden steps down from both running and the presidency, or just running.
If it is just running, then Biden will hold the fort until the election. That’s a tricky one to sell because if you are not fit to campaign and last 4 more years then you are not fit to be President now.
If it is both running and stepping down, VP Kamala will hold the fort, and maybe she will campaign or, just hold the fort.
There is zero time. Election campaigning and debates are already in motion.
Could Hillary Clinton campaign? People hate liers.
People like to put their faith in truthful people and people who want to make things better for them.
To me all that matters is what happens on election night (or maybe election MONTH if it’s anything like last time).
Doesn’t matter if no one votes for whoever they stick up there (no one voted for Biden last time either), all that matters is what kind of cheating they’ll be allowed to get away with this time around.
How can they swap Biden out if they have already printed the mail in ballots for their cheating with Biden’s name on? A cosmic conundrum!