The Democratic Party cannot replace Joe Biden

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By Jeremiah Poff

The question of whether the Democratic Party will replace President Joe Biden atop its presidential ticket is a favorite topic in political circles these days, but the logistics involved make such a scenario exceedingly unlikely.

The current flavor of speculation surrounds the June 27 presidential debate between Biden and former President Donald Trump. It is the first of two scheduled debates for the 2024 presidential election cycle.

After many incidents raising questions about his physical and mental fitness for office, the debate will offer Biden an opportunity to show that he really is up to the job and that the concerns about his mental and physical acuity are overblown. But if he fails, the early date of the debate supposedly would give the Democratic Party time to replace Biden atop the ticket and avoid disaster in November.

But at this stage in the game, there is very little the party can do to defenestrate its presumptive nominee without creating a major intraparty conflict. The only way it can is if Biden voluntarily steps aside and anoints Vice President Kamala Harris as his chosen successor.

There are three reasons why replacing Biden at this juncture is, at worst, nearly impossible and, at best, a logistical nightmare. The first involves deadlines, the second has to do with personnel, and the third is the lack of an obvious replacement.

Deadlines

There are three deadlines relevant to this discussion: July 13, Aug. 7, and Aug. 19. Each one presents a hurdle to any attempt by the Democratic Party to replace Biden. We will analyze each in turn.

July 13, more than two weeks after the first debate, is the first deadline of note. It is the day that the Indiana Democratic Party selects its delegates to the national convention. At this point, the more than 4,600 delegates to the Democratic Party’s national convention will all be selected, with the vast majority chosen because of their commitment to the president.

Less than month later is the Aug. 7 deadline, which is the date that the nominees for each party must be finalized in order to appear on the general election ballot in Ohio. Granted, earlier this month, the state delayed the deadline for major parties after Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) called a special session of the Ohio legislature. But the Democratic Party continues to forge ahead with plans to nominate the president through a virtual vote prior to the Aug. 19 convention in Chicago.

The absolute last moment the party could replace Biden (assuming it did not hold a virtual nomination) is at the convention, which runs from Aug. 19 to Aug. 22. At this point, any attempt to replace Biden would spill out into the open and involve a messy soap opera that would unfold on the convention floor and lay bare the Democratic Party’s deep divisions for the world to see.

Personnel

The second hurdle to ousting Biden is personnel. Replacing the sitting president of the United States as the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party requires the buy-in of thousands of people who have been hand-picked by the president and his aides for their loyalty.

The largest group whose support must be secured is the convention delegates themselves. The thousands of delegates from every state and territory who have pledged to vote for Biden were chosen specifically for their loyalty to the president.

To replace Biden atop the ticket, a majority of delegates must coalesce around an alternative candidate under a condensed timeline. And since all of them were selected as delegates due to their loyalty to the president, it would likely take direction from Biden to support another candidate. Such a scenario would require Biden to step aside voluntarily, but that exposes another problem: the lack of an obvious successor.

No succession plan

In order to replace Biden as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, the party must coalesce around an alternative candidate. But there is little consensus about who that candidate would be or even could be.

The most obvious answer is Harris, who is already on the ticket as vice president. But the first woman to be vice president carries her own set of liabilities. The most glaring is the fact that she is somehow more unpopular than the woefully unpopular Biden. If replacing Biden atop the ticket is supposed to bolster the Democratic Party’s chances of retaining the White House in November, conventional wisdom dictates that Harris is not the answer.

But any attempt to bypass Harris creates challenges of its own. The party that has aligned itself with the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion will have to somehow justify the fact that it passed over the party’s first black woman vice president in favor of another nominee.

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The Demon-Rats want total control that’s why they want to pen the borders for all those future democratic voters and supporters while their Partners in Crime the M.S. Media covers up for them

The only thing that makes the replacement theories credible is that Democrats have no problem lying and rewriting even recent history. Time and time again they and the Ministry of Propaganda have defended even the most horrendous gaffes, goofs and lies. To dump him now would require ignoring all that and admitting WE’VE been right all along.

Hard to say what is worse. Keeping the dementia ridden octogenarian with no record to run on or trading him in on a pawn who would have no chance against President Trump.

It really doesn’t matter one way or the other. Democrats will be using election fraud as their primary weapon either way.

Given that they’ve already changed laws concerning statutes of limitation and ignored the constitution with respect to voting law, the idea that deadlines here or there will stop the shenanigans is ridiculous.

I refer you once again to Rule #1 of 21st Century American Politics, which is utterly ironclad and states that whatever it is, for all possible values of “it” — appointing judges, interrupting official proceedings, rioting, passing legislation, conducting foreign diplomacy, or anything else — it’s OK when a Democrat does it.

When anyone else but a Democrat does it, it’s Russian interference.

If they think that they can keep dragging Pedo Pete across the finish line, they will. If they believe it’s advantageous to let Trump win and then leave him holding the bag when they detonate everything they haven’t yet destroyed, they’ll do that, and if they think it will be necessary, they’ll pull a Torra-silly and simply stick someone else on the ballot without any regard to what their primary voters think.