Diane M. Kimura

What Obama probably grasps and others miss is what replacing Biden in these circumstances for THIS reason would mean. He is President. If he cannot excercise the duties of a candidate he can't exercise those of President . And if the party admits it, then it means they admit they lied.

This is not Biden deciding on his own he cannot do the job. This is other Democrats deciding he will lose because too many people found out.

It is bad enough for voters to suspect he lied. It is another to admit it. For over a year every major Democratic figure has come forward to gush about Biden's cognitive abilities in private. To force him out now is to admit they were gaslighting the American people. Gaslighting them over the most important and consequential issue imaginable.

This is especially true of any plan to displace Harris. To suggest that not only is Biden unfit to be President but so is Harris to succeed him is to admit that the Democratic elite for its own ends, installed a President and Vice President who are unfit for office. At a time of domestic and global crisis. Furthermore, that for the next seven months including the campaign, America will be governed by two individuals whose own party has repudiated as competent for their roles, all because the voters trusted the Democratic party.

For the Democratic party to go into November with the above message and then expect the voters to forgive them is akin to the UK Conservatives believing that the UK electorate will reward Rishi Sunak for removing Liz Truss after she crashed the economy.

Obama gets this.

Tim adds:

I would agree. I suspect they will find a way to remove Biden without it looking like they're removing Biden. An "unfortunate" injury perhaps? Remember when Harry Reid has his "accident" with an exercise machine (which was a patent lie; sombody beat him up). Reid retired just weeks later.

Any way you slice it the Democrats are now backed in a corner. I fear an assassination, either of Biden or Trump. I think the Democrats could live with a Nikki Haley president if something should happen to Trump before he is formally nominated. Or, as I suggested on another of your posts Diane, an assassination of Biden would work for them too as they could blame it on Trump and MAGA. Granted, they are stuck with Kamala, or are they? For a few months anyway. Not sure how it would play out at the Democratic convention. But I fear these are possible scenarios.

Rats are normally non-aggressive critters until cornered. The Democrats are normally quite aggressive when NOT cornered so how will they be as November approaches?

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