Ds have/had an out by letting D voters boot Harris in primaries, but Joe’s insistence to stay at the top of the ticket is pre-empting that option as primaries near.
“It wasn’t me.”, D grand poo-bahs could claim. “The voters decided.”
I, for one, applaud Joe’s fantasies and hope he remains upright for a few months more.
Ds may be playing the long game, focusing on ‘28 (Newsome, etc).... in the meanwhile, hoping Trump’s indictments develop into convictions.
The problem is that if Biden makes it to the convention, and then Newsom is put on top of the ticket, he’s avoided the primaries, and he now has simply the final run in November. The media can probably cover for him that long.