Yeah, it’s not like Kamala could have done any worse than Joe... but she was also the worst alternate option they had.
Aunt Nancy, IMO, had “nephew” Gavin’s presidential sugar plums dancing in her head.
If Joe had quit when he said he would, they maybe could have chosen someone better through a primary process, but not clear to me that anyone plausible would have beaten Trump. Plus, getting rid of the black woman VP might have hurt their results with blacks and women even worse. They seem to me to be screwed. It’s a coalition party with no real message other than “spend money and give it to the members of our coalition” and that’s not really where the mood of the country is after going through that bout of inflation. Who do they have? D-bag from California who delivers no states they don’t have and comes across like a car salesman, the gay guy who is pretty smart but has a dang husband and the country is not ready for that, or the Jewish guy from PA, who may be the best bet, but again, is the Dem coalition ready for a Jewish moderate who supports Israel? Screwed.