how ever........ there is talk if rank and file congressional democrats get cold feet it might not happen.
Dems are all team players. If they think control of the Senate is possible they will happily sacrifice a few House districts to amp up the pressure on Gardner, Collins, etc.
——Dems are all team players-—
You are right of course except the precedents may no longer hold.
Taking a larger view, there is serious fragmentation in the party as evidenced by the fact there are so many presidential candidates. Putting Biden aside, the leaders in the race are radical to very radical. Biden is the perceived as the moderate. He was the actual leader. Biden has been taken out.
So, the old line more moderate democrats have no candidate.
Some are bugging Bloomberg and some have bugged Patrick. Seeing this, hillary claims they are bugging her. (she’s lying of course but her vanity forces her to tell the lie). The present field has been shown to be unacceptable by those pulling strings and providing money. To win, but at least to save party face, they are seeking another candidate.
Where you see solidarity, there is in fact serious fragmentation. At present with Pelosi barely committed to impeachment, there is in effect no actual team. There certainly is no leader. There was or maybe still is no viable Presidential candidate
We are living in a cusp of History. What was the Democrat party is no more. What will remain is far from certain