Democrats are calling for President Joe Biden’s presidential election replacement to be chosen during a “blitz primary.”
Even before Biden announced in a letter on X Sunday that he would step down from his re-election bid in 2024, Democrats were suggesting ways to select a replacement.
Their proposal aims to answer three main questions:
- Who will choose candidates?
- How would they campaign?
- How will a nominee be chosen?
A good number of Democrats favor making Vice President Kamala Harris the nominee without a primary process.
Harris was already on the ticket and she fulfills the intersectional preferences the party seems to have.
Additionally, Harris can take advantage of Biden’s huge fundraising haul, something that a new candidate wouldn’t be able to access.
Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks and venture capitalist Ted Dintersmith disagree with Democrats moving forward with Harris, however.
Brooks and Dintersmith put out a six-page memo saying her selection without a primary might “set her and the Party up to fail.”
They think an open primary would be “the best opportunity in years, if not decades, for the Democratic Party to reclaim its role as the party of the people — and to reinvent itself as the party of the future.”
At the end of the process, they think, “Millions of once-disengaged voters re-engage, grateful for a fresh alternative to a Biden/Trump rematch.”
What Brooks and Dintersmith don’t seem to realize is that for Democrats, an open primary is a huge risk compared to coalescing behind one candidate right away.
That risk would be too high for the Democrats, even if that candidate is the generally unpopular Harris.
Of course, an open primary is the right thing to do unless Biden wants to step down as president now.
Should Biden step down, it would make Harris an incumbent for the next 100-odd days until the election.
Meanwhile, there is some speculation that Biden is incapacitated or in much worse shape than we all thought.
The fact that Biden posted his resignation on X, on a Sunday, and disappeared from public view is a cause for concern.
The White House has not made an official announcement about Biden’s campaign, not has he been seen in public since last Wednesday.
Biden is supposedly in Delaware recovering from Covid.
However, many believe he took a turn for the worse.
Former Fox News host Todd Starnes has asked these questions and speculated that something fishy is going on with Biden’s resignation.
As of Saturday, Biden was still saying he wasn’t stepping down.
What changed in 24 hours?
At age 82, anything could happen to take his health from declining to much, much worse.
And if that is what happened, the decision to step down might have been far from his own.
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