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Everybody says this but it's not that simple. The DNC has a process and Biden is their candidate. They can't just arbitrarily swap him out, he would have to be defeated by another candidate. Another democrat would have to spend months attacking the record and/or the character of the incumbent president, explaining why it should be him instead, and not anyone else. Even if we could skip the primary voting, candidates still have to court allies and donors.

The allotted time for this is between admins when there's no clear front-runner and everyone can focus on the last 4 to 8 years of opposition blunders. This is also when party elites and financiers are free to recommit resources on their own preferred terms.

There's no room for foresight here. If Biden is strong enough to be president, he gets material support from the party. If he's too weak to be president, it's already over. If an alternative candidate could get that support and build their profile when it didn't actually matter, they could replace Biden. But they can't. So it's already over.

They'll need a miracle now... but democrats don't believe in miracles

<blockquote data-quote="Stiff" data-source="post: 16477" data-attributes="member: 297">Everybody says this but it's not that simple. The DNC has a process and Biden is their candidate. They can't just arbitrarily swap him out, he would have to be defeated by another candidate. Another democrat would have to spend months attacking the record and/or the character of the incumbent president, explaining why it should be him instead, and not anyone else. Even if we could skip the primary voting, candidates still have to court allies and donors.The allotted time for this is between admins when there's no clear front-runner and everyone can focus on the last 4 to 8 years of opposition blunders. This is also when party elites and financiers are free to recommit resources on their own preferred terms.There's no room for foresight here. If Biden is strong enough to be president, he gets material support from the party. If he's too weak to be president, it's already over. If an alternative candidate could get that support and build their profile when it didn't actually matter, they could replace Biden. But they can't. So it's already over.They'll need a miracle now... but democrats don't believe in miracles <img src="/forum/data/assets/smilies/2578983363.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tip:" title="tip&nbsp; &nbsp; :tip:" data-shortname=":tip:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stiff, post: 16477, member: 297"] Everybody says this but it's not that simple. The DNC has a process and Biden is their candidate. They can't just arbitrarily swap him out, he would have to be defeated by another candidate. Another democrat would have to spend months attacking the record and/or the character of the incumbent president, explaining why it should be him instead, and not anyone else. Even if we could skip the primary voting, candidates still have to court allies and donors. The allotted time for this is between admins when there's no clear front-runner and everyone can focus on the last 4 to 8 years of opposition blunders. This is also when party elites and financiers are free to recommit resources on their own preferred terms. There's no room for foresight here. If Biden is strong enough to be president, he gets material support from the party. If he's too weak to be president, it's already over. If an alternative candidate could get that support and build their profile when it didn't actually matter, they could replace Biden. But they can't. So it's already over. They'll need a miracle now... but democrats don't believe in miracles :tip: [/QUOTE]

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