On Monday, Vox.com published a lengthy article titled "Yes, Democrats, It's Biden or Bust." The next day, Politico ran a lengthy piece titled "Get Used to It: Biden Isn't Going Anywhere." New York Magazine ran a piece with a slightly different take: "Yes, Democrats Can Still Replace Biden." The National Interest ran a piece yesterday titled "Democrats are Stuck with Joe Biden." We are not suggesting there was plagiarism here, but mainstream journalists aren't the most independent thinkers on the planet, which suggests that they are getting their information from the same sources.
The headquarters is an arm of the Biden White House and the state leaders are party loyalists who happily saluted Biden when the president made them shake up the decades-old primary calendar to protect him from a primary challenge.
Vox: 'The vast majority of the Democratic establishment has already united around Biden - endorsing him, stumping for him, and leading the party's operations because of Biden.
' Politico: 'If not one Democratic governor or senator is willing to even publicly question whether Biden should run, how would he feel any pressure to change his mind?' Both insist that nobody wants Kamala Harris to be the nominee: Vox: 'The only option that would not risk massive dissension among the Democratic base would be to choose his vice president, Kamala Harris.
For one thing, if defeating Donald Trump is the Democrats' paramount concern, Biden staying in the race seems like the worst possible choice.
For another, Democrats must know that replacing Biden with someone like Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom would massively energize their base, put the burden of old age on Trump, and weaken Trump's claim that he deserves a second chance.
Sending the message Biden isn't going anywhere might leave Republicans in general, and Trump in particular, totally unprepared when Biden takes himself out of the race.
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