Follow the Money. Anyone Who Thinks a Democrat Can Enter the Race in July & Raise Enough Money to Defeat Donald Trump Is Living in a Fantasy World.

The Biden campaign has some $150 million to $200 million cash on hand.

The ONLY person who can use that cash to run for president other than Joe Biden is Vice President Kamala Harris.

Now, if you want to argue that Biden should resign before the convention and let President Harris be the Democrat nominee, I'll disagree but respect that's at least a game plan. And that would be the BEST game plan OTHER than a Biden-Harris ticket.

And I'm saying that as someone who, although I predicted AND wanted Harris as Biden's VP nominee because I wanted to WIN and felt she would be the BEST VP nominee to help get that win, was not sold on her back in 2020 as a potential nominee for the future. But she is very loyal and I have a favorable view of how she has performed as Veep.

But to think Gavin Newsom is going to ride to the rescue is crazy talk. That's coming from the left. Heck, it isn't even coming from Newsom himself, who has been a good surrogate camapginer for Biden. But the truth is that couldn't even beat Ron DeSantis in a debate.

Same with temper-tantrum throwing Amy Klobuchar. Trump would win.

Pete Buttigieg? 😂 Trump would win. - big.

Sherrod Brown? He's one of the few Dem Senators I really like. But he'd struggle to win his own state.

Gretchen Whitmer? Maybe in 2028.

J. B. Pritzker? OMG no!

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LeopoldBloom · M

I agree. It's too late to pick someone else. It gives the impression of poor judgment on the Democrats' part, or that they were trying to get away with something and got caught. Plus, a brokered convention will be a bloodbath. It's not like any of the people you mentioned would magically have unanimous support. Everyone who wants to replace Biden has someone different in mind. If you think the PUMA voters in 2008 or the Bernie Bros in 2016 were bad, a brokered convention would make those look like nothing.

Biden should have announced that he wasn't running for a second term a year ago. But I can see why he wanted to run. He figured that his candidacy as the incumbent would avoid a bruising primary, which would have been to Trump's advantage since he was essentially also running as an incumbent. It would have been bad, but putting it off until now would be worse.

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@LeopoldBloom

The only way to have avoided a bruising primary (which, as you noted, would have been to Trump's advantage) would have been to resign to give Kamala Harris a big enough advantage to defeat all the wannabe presidents relatively easily long before the convention.

But I also think that the Justice Department waited way too long to file charge against Donald Trump re: January 6th. Maybe the calculation was that Trump wasn't going to run and it would all have been mute. But I had no doubt whatsoever.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@LeopoldBloom

"Biden should have announced that he wasn't running for a second term a year ago."

Right, Leo, he SHOULD have, if he had been honest. But of course he's NOT honest; he's a politician of a very low sort, with a long career of dishonesty behind him.

So why should he have made such an announcement, from a political standpoint, when partisans like you were insisting at the time that there was nothing the matter with Biden's health except a no-big-deal "lifelong stutter"? 🙄