Never has it looked better for a Democratic victory in the upcoming presidential election. Snickering Donald Trump received the Pinocchio award for showing he could not answer any questions that concerned American citizens and for resorting to scheming mendacities to stir the public away from his ignorance and induce the audience into accepting vicious smears against his opponent. He did not have an assured winning following; now he has a definite losing following.
Transfixed President Joe Biden did not lose the debate. He was the only debater and there was no debate. Joe lost himself and lost any chance of winning the election and of being the democratic candidate. Why would the Dems run a certain loser when the Dems can run a certain winner? Are they masochist or is this election a fix? Voters in the 2020 presidential election voted for whom they less disliked. Voters in the 2024 have the same dismal choice.
After the non-debate, both became more disliked and bigger losers. This gives the Dems an opportunity they need. The GOP won't discard their losing candidate and, after Biden's patriotic removal, almost any suitable Dem ticket, especially Governors Newsome and Whitmer can easily win. This is a no brainer. The public is demanding new candidates, and satisfying the public is a good way to win an election.
Before radio, television, Internet, rapid transportation, and Zoom, voters were selecting candidates and often the best candidate. Remember Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. In less than a week, television and the internet can introduce new candidates to the public. New faces that have experience, election success, and majority approval ratings arrive without previous baggage and are the best faces.
The other recommendation is to have Biden run with a vice-presidential candidate whom the public accepts as presidential quality. Present VP Kamal Harris has not demonstrated that quality and will be another deterrent to voter approval of the Biden ticket. After trips to the Mexican border and visits to Guatemala, Mexico, and Vietnam, VP Harris was criticized for erratic performance.
THE ATLANTIC, The Kamala Harris Problem,
Few people seem to think she’s ready to be president. Why? By Elaina Plott Calabro, OCTOBER 10, 2023
Her first year on the job was defined by rhetorical blunders, staff turnover, political missteps, and a poor sense among even her allies of what, exactly, constituted her portfolio. Within months of taking office, President Joe Biden was forced to confront a public perception that Harris didn’t measure up; ultimately, the White House issued a statement insisting that Biden did, in fact, rely on his vice president as a governing partner. But Harris’s reputation has never quite recovered.
Except for speeches to various audiences on abortion and other topics, the vice-president has not distinguished herself as an essential partner in the Biden administration. Staff complaints of overbearing and dysfunction have followed Harris throughout her decades of elected office. She is not a leader and has lost popularity with the voting public.
One attribute, and I would vote for her if I could validate the attribute and knew she could win, is her stance on the Palestinian issue. Harris has been the administration’s most vocal critic of Israel and my antenna receives a signal that she is restrained by the administration from being more critical. How far she would go and could go in a new administration in preventing the genocide is an unknown; from her VP performance and her poll numbers, she is not favored to being a winner as a presidential candidate. In a June 12, 2024 poll, Politico’s Morning consult poll revealed “that only a third of voters think it’s likely Harris would win an election were she to become the Democratic nominee, and just three of five Democrats believe she would prevail. A quarter of independents think she would win. The poll shows that Harris shares the same poor ratings as Biden. Both are well underwater, Biden at 43 percent favorable and 54 unfavorable, Harris at 42 percent favorable and 52 percent unfavorable.”
The nation and the Party come before one person. Indications are that Biden cannot win and does not need to run. For the neoliberals, he has followed the traditions established by the Democratic Party during the Clinton administration and been a good president. If they want to continue those traditions, Biden’s retirement would guarantee a Democratic victory in November and a continuation of those traditions.
The night of June 27 is a night that will live in infamy; it was a domestic Pearl Harbor that shattered the vision of the United States as the leading democracy in a troubled world. It was a pathetic broadcast of a troubled America losing its footing at the highest level ─ selecting a suitable presidential candidate. A new and shiny Democratic ticket will replace the dismal with the hopeful and brighten the future of America again.