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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the problem that the Dems have with forcing Biden to withdraw as the candidate for 2024.

If Biden is not fit to serve as a candidate, how can he continue to serve as POTUS for the next six months?  Obviously he can't.  The Dem party would lose whatever credibility it has left.

So the new President would be VP Harris, right?  Not so fast.  She will immediately be in the midst of a scandal, since she has continuously lied to the American people about Biden's fitness to serve.  As of today, she is sticking to that lie, and it would be incredibly hard for her to reverse course. ("gosh, I just took a closer look and noticed for the first time that he is failing.")  So if Biden does step down and finally acknowledges his obvious unfitness, how does Harris explain her statements immediately following the June 27 debate that he is totally fine?  I don't see how she does that without admitting that she lied through her teeth and put partisan politics ahead of National security by keeping an unfit President in office.  And the Republicans in Congress will immediately convene hearings about "what did she know and when did she know it," because it appears that Biden has been declining for a long time, so Harris was part of a major cover-up for some portion of Biden's 3.5 years.  (possibly Harris knew as early as 2020, which is why Biden never left his basement).

Harris will be like Spirew Agnew in Watergate, when Nixon resigned, but the VP had too much of his own baggage to assume the Presidency.  The next in line to the Presidency, the Speaker of the House, was Gerald Ford in 1976 and today will be Mike Johnson, a Republican.

Will it play out in such a way that Johnson actually serves the remainder of Biden's term, as Ford did for Nixon?  Who knows.  But if Biden resigns, Harris (who was unpopular even before her June 27 statements) will be fending off those accusations as more or less her full time job for the next six months.  It will dominate the news cycle, Harris will inevitably blame it on racism, and the political left will be arguing directly against the US Constitution, which says the Speaker is next in line to the Presidency.  By comparison, Trump will appear the non-crazy, non-scandal ridden adult in the room.

So for all the Dems calling for Biden to bow out of the race, please think a couple of moves ahead, and ask if that is what you really want.  It could get way uglier than it is already![/quote]

OP here. Your post makes a lot of sense to me but also fills me with such disappointment in the DNC and party leadership. I think there was a window right after the debate that he could have said - you know what, campaigning is too much for me but I am fine with the day to day and stayed as President. But this moment has passed. President Biden has proven himself extremely selfish and the entirely platform of how Ds are the way to save democracy rings hollows for me now. I will vote for him to help protect a woman's right to manage her own body and hope someone like Soros with deep pockets steps forward to fund a viable third party candidate in the future. [/quote]

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