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Originally Posted by jfman
He's not pulling the strings even in his own head. Whether it's his wife, Obama or someone else the lights are on but no-one is home.
When they drop him there's inevitably going to be questions over who is running the country. More importantly: who has been? He's not got into this condition overnight and the Democrats, and allies in the media, are complicit in at best a deceit and at worst a fraud by keeping him in office and stage managing the primaries.
Trump will have a field day on the campaign given the accusations levelled at him.
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They defo need someone before the convention in mid-August. After that Harris is (realistically) the only alternate game in town. Party rules do permit a process to pick someone else if Biden withdraws but it's late in the day to elevate some Governor with limited national profile to the top of the ticket.
Begs the question why Biden picked Harris at all?
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Can Biden be removed from the ticket?
It would be difficult. Biden faced minimal opposition in his party’s primaries and has secured 99% of the pledged delegates to the convention. Those delegates will be chosen in large part for their loyalty to the president. Absent extraordinary circumstances — and a backup plan — it’s unlikely they would remove him from the ticket.
Any challenger to Biden would have to announce his or her candidacy before the formal vote, publicly challenging the incumbent in a high-stakes attempted party coup.