Yesterday, on July 21, pressured by a growing caravan of defecting Democratic Party leaders, donors and media acolytes who could no longer cover for senility publicly exposed by the infamous June 27 debate from hell, President Biden surrendered his 2024 reelection bid.
After all, people surrounding Biden, his family included, clearly knew he was cognitively unfit to serve as U.S. president, commander in chief, and leader of the free world prior to the time they conspired to orchestrate his original 2020 basement bunker campaign.
This was long before The Wall Street Journal editorial board noted that "President Biden’s halting, stumbling debate performance Thursday night showed all too clearly that he isn’t up to serving four more years in office.
"For the good of the country, more even than their party, Democrats have some hard thinking to do about whether they need to replace him at the top of their ticket."
The Journal then poses an inevitable question regarding why it took so long to reach this conclusion of unfitness to run again.
Stating that they and many others had warned them otherwise, they rhetorically asked, "But did they really think they could hide his decline from the public for an entire election campaign?"
The biggest remaining question now is what, if any real influence, this belated development can be expected to have on presidential and congressional election outcomes regardless of who replaces Joe on the ticket.
As reported by Politico.com, recently anticipating that Biden might drop out with presumed entitlement heiress Vice President Kamala Harris stepping in, analytics company BlueLabs surveyed more than 15,000 likely Democratic voters across seven critical battleground states to determine who — including the vice president — would likely fare best compared against a Biden candidacy.
The top four alternative candidates who each outpaced Biden by roughly three points, were Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Arizona, Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pa., and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich.
Kamala came in fifth among those comparative unknowns.
Although Harris has polled even lower than Joe in most surveys, many Democrats fear that selection of any other known nominee will sidestep a presumed successor candidate he has now publicly endorsed and potentially anger a key demographic voting block of Black females they need to win.
The New York Times has previously opined that if Biden were to step aside and be replaced by Harris she could automatically be eligible to inherit the party’s campaign money which at the time stood at $212 million.
Bear in mind that the Biden-Harris ticket has already secured about 14.5 million primary delegate votes, enough to be nominated at the upcoming Democratic National Convention, approximately three weeks from now.
The Times warns that "If another candidate were to become the nominee, the process could become more complicated, potentially requiring the funds to be transferred to the DNC. or an independent group."
Gideon Stein, a donor and operative with deep connections in Democratic politics, reportedly said in the article that his family would withhold $3.5 million in planned donations to nonprofits and political organizations active in the presidential race unless Biden stepped aside.
Stein also told the Times that virtually every major donor he had spoken with believed that "a new ticket is in the best interest of defeating Donald Trump."
The timing of Biden’s removal from the ticket takes on special urgency ahead of preparations for the upcoming Aug. 19-22 Democratic National Convention.
A huge resurgence of national Trump enthusiasm now extends beyond party loyalties.
This is as a consequence of his courageous behavior following an assassination attempt, and the wildly successful GOP National Convention.
Even reliably anti-Trump Wall Street Journal star columnist Peggy Noonan described the convention as "a stupendous triumph in every way from production through pronounced meaning and ability to reach beyond the tent."
Noonan admitted that a [MAGA] "movement that was a joke nine years ago is a party now," adding that "This wasn’t a divided party, it was a party united. It wasn’t only Mr. Trump’s party, it was an explicitly Trumpian party."
She observed, "Its members are certain they will win in November because they believe the vast majority of Americans feel just like them: a hard no on illegal immigration, unstopped street crime, foreign entanglements.
"They believe they speak for normal people. Meaning in spite of past apocalyptic talk of civil war, they believe the majority of America is still normal.
"And like them. There was a funny little affirmation in that.”
Peggy Noonan concluded her remarkable epiphany saying, "To give you a sense of how powerful I think all this has been, I have a feeling it’s going to change the Democratic Party in the coming weeks."
So yes, and it’s going to require lots more to win than a desperate last-ditch attempt to replace a broadly unpopular presidential administration — including Kamala — with, at best, a less objectionable alternative pushing the same disastrously failed policies.
Who that is, probably doesn’t really matter.
Larry Bell is an endowed professor of spac architecture at the University of Houston where he founded the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture and the graduate space architecture program. His latest of 12 books is "Architectures Beyond Boxes and Boundaries: My Life By Design" (2022). Read Larry Bell's Reports — More Here.
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