Joe Biden has reportedly become more open in recent days to hearing arguments that he should step aside as the Democratic presidential candidate after the party’s two main congressional leaders told him they doubted his ability to beat Donald Trump.
While continuing to insist he will be the party’s nominee in November, the president has reportedly started asking questions about negative polling data and whether Vice-President Kamala Harris, considered the favourite to replace him if were to withdraw, fares better.
The indications of a possible rethink come after Biden tested positive on Wednesday for Covid-19, forcing him to isolate for several days while curtailing a campaigning visit to Nevada that had been part of a drive to show his candidacy was very much alive.
It also coincides with fresh polling data showing that he now trails Trump by two points in Virginia, a state he won by 10 points in 2020.
I’m never going to vote third party, just laying bare your cognitive dissonance. Either the left is a core component to the Democratic coalition and voting third party is doing incredible harm to the nation, in which case, stop complaining about trivial little comments wishing they had their preferred candidate on the ticket to represent them (in a subordinate role no less!), or they’re irrelevant and they deserve to be ignored, both in their desires and in their potential voting plans.
You don’t need to speculate about what the ask was, this thread was a specific ask. Maybe a silly one since Bernie is old as shit, but it’s not asking for governmental miracles, it’s asking for the team to have representatives from both sides. I don’t expect it to happen, especially not with Bernie specifically, but the idea of energizing a large faction that faction Biden-Harris has been on shaky ground with is an entirely reasonable idea.