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P.R.'s avatar

From a purely "Win the election: standard I think you analysis might well be right. Here is the difference. Everyone should actually care about the office and duties of the presidency. Biden is not capable of serving as president. I have been firm in my assessment of that since early 2021. Now it is common knowledge. To push through with Biden based on not being able to improve the calculated likelihood of victory is cynicism - cynicism about the government as a whole. People who actually hold that line should pay a huge penalty in public opinion. Seriously, a person who argues in incompetent, addled, ineffective, useless figurehead to sign the documents with a shadow cadre of unelected political hacks running the government without accountability or legal authority is preferable to losing an election should pay an enormous penalty in public opinion.

It can't just be about winning the election. It has to be about who will serve as president. at the very least there has to be the tacit admission that really we are electing the VP who will take over shortly - but that gets back to the same thing - we are running the VP as the candidate.

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Phil H's avatar

A little over a week later, the calls for Biden to step down are growing, but Joe Biden is defiant.

And the pundits I listen to agree that, for political reasons (including transfer of Biden's campaign funds) the most likely person to replace Biden, should he withdraw, would be his Vice-President and running mate, Kamala Harris.

That does not strike me as any kind of improvement. She is more to the left of Biden, but also in over her head. Whether she could beat trump is anyone's guess.

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