My guess is that if there is a way for him to win and accept the nomination before naming Harris as the running mate, some medical emergency will happen and the DNC power brokers at the convention will name his replacement sans Harris.
Well that was my original theory, they will nominate Biden officially then he will “retire” or something allowing them to name a replacement nominee without a single vote cast.
Could still happen, but if they are going to try this they really need to start grooming and pushing the person they are planning to replace him with now... if they want any chance of it working... and so far, I haven’t really seen any indications they are grooming anyone for that role.
Not to beat a dead horse, but there’s no law or rule preventing DNC Powerbrokers at the convention from replacing not Just Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, for whatever real or imagined malady AND Kamala Harris on the VP part of the ticket at the same time, leaving an addled Biden to doodle with fidget spinners the rest of the year while Kamala sits at VP still, ever more irrelevant?
I guess that is the point I am making; the DNC could name and entire new ticket at the convention because Joe’s too sick, etc to stay on the ticket but fine to leave him as an ever lamer duck president for the rest of 2024 so that Kamala never gets elevated in his place, becoming the presumptive presidential nominee for the election?
This seems as much about how to delicately dump Joe Biden as it is to dump Kamala without sacrificing too much of the Dem’s Black voting block for Novemeber.