[kiryandil]

president Kamala “Big Gulp” Harris...

[PGR88]

Liz Warren

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Newsome or Whitmer might do it in order to get more national recognition for a future run at the presidency.

I don't think Michelle would do it. Too much trouble for little return.

[Red Badger]

Booty-judge....................

[Tell It Right]

Don’t be surprised if they pick Hussein Obama for VP. My reading of Article 22 doesn’t seem to forbid it, even though he’s already been elected twice as prez and served both terms.

[DrHFrog]

That should say Newsom would be smart enough to decline such a Quixotic offer..

[who_would_fardels_bear]

If they want two black women then they can get Susan Rice or Valerie Jarrett.

[FamiliarFace]

I’ll be honest. Any Democrat who has presidential aspirations down the road wouldn’t be caught dead running with Kamala.

[Samurai_Jack]

I think they’re going to toss the whole ticket and go for the Big Mike with some flunkie as VP.

[bigbob]

Jill Biden

She’s already doing the job, and she IS a “doctor”.

[Thorium90]

Whitmer

[hole_n_one]

It would not just elevate Harris to nominee status.

If Biden is to feeble seek reelection, he is too feeble to be POTUS.

If Biden ceases his campaign, he must resign and Harris would be elevated to POTUS.

[RinaseaofDs]

My two cents:

1. Kamala is shown the door.
2. Someone electable is nominated for VP.
3. At some point, Joe succumbs to COVID, or fill in your excuse here _____________.
4. The new VP becomes the new D nominee for President, and the wishes of the people are ‘honored’. No open convention.
5. Somehow they square it with Kamala, whatever bizarre form that takes.

It will happen very soon, get people used to it, and offering something tacit, which is “Yeah, Joe is whack, but the VP is electable (probably Big Mike).”

A vote for Joe is a vote for BM, something along those lines.

[Maudeen]

As I just posted on another thread, I seriously think this charade has been in the works for years.

[Dr. Sivana]

I'm pretty sure almost all of us here believe the days of Biden's candidacy are very short.

I am not so sure. When you sell your soul to the devil, and you know Hell awaits in six months or next week, you generally wait the six months.

I am assuming that the political will does not exist to assert the 25th Amendment, because key players are not all on board. The Amendment assumes rational actors behaving based on objective reality, not completely reliant on political conditions.

What does Biden have to gain by dropping out? LBJ did it gracefully in 1968, so he could have some leverage to get Humphrey instead of McCarthy. Biden has NO leverage once he quits. He will be like an unloved, feeble version of Pope Benedict XVI, only with Secret Service Protection. If he doesn't step down, that is all he will hear about for four months. If he does step down, the lawfare will be incoming instead of outgoing. He would go down grouped only with Nixon as the guy who quit.

Let's say there is a 100-1 shot that Trump himself gets pancreatic cancer, or the next bullet debilitates him (God Forbid), or he can be convincingly indicted for something that hurts him. That's enough hope for Biden to hang on. If you forfeit, the odds go from 100,000 to 1 to nothing. Right now, Biden has a better chance of being installed as president next year than any of us posting. Sad, but true.

Biden is about Biden. Not only does he not really have much care for anyone but himself and maybe his immediate family, but his perception of his legacy is certainly warped, and some sycophants will be happy to feed him his preferred version, if only to stay on the payroll for six months.

Why should he quit. He will take his personal Hell later.

[Robert DeLong]

They will put Michelle Obama in as VP, for an unprecedented, not one, but two Black women ticket.

Then The Dems will assassinate Kamala, blame it on a MAGA person who was directed by Trump to assassinate Kamala (without providing as iota proof that any of that occurred because they know the press will run with the story 24 x 7 and the gullible people will accept the narrative.). Then installing someone else for the top of the ticket. Michele steps down so that Hillary can take the VP.

[Rio]

Mark Kelly (D-Arizona)

[Georgia Girl 2]

Add to all that the fog of eligibility that a bunch of attorneys are going to stir up. Its going to be an ongoing chit show. I’m still sticking to my prediction that the election gets postponed.

[vivenne]

Newsome and Kamala are from the same state, Calif, so not likely him.

[bk1000]

Cankles has been unusually vocal lately.