If Biden does NOT run (or even if he does), the resulting chaos in the ‘RAT selection process may provide an opening for an alternative choice, perhaps the likes of Martin O’Malley and Jim Webb. They’re both polling at Lindsey Graham levels but in O’Malley’s case, he is generally well received at events and crowds (when he can find one, lol) respond positively to his message.
Jim Webb has some disadvantages, one of them is a book he wrote years ago which described some godawful pedophile images, but aside from that he is perceived as a mostly pro-defense Democrat, he was briefly Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy, and that looks good on almost any resume’.
Martin O’Malley has some heavy Baltimore baggage hanging around his neck
(pardon the mixed metaphors...)
Even with a Hillary indictment, Webb won't get any traction or visibility because he harks back to a bygone era when Democrats were liberal but still patriotic and comparatively sane (i.e. in the style of Truman, JFK, or Tip O'Neill rather than Marxist radicals). Webb tries to appeal to a demographic of working and middle class whites who have written off the Democratic party long ago and who the DNC has written off as well.