2) is the only option where Rats control the decision. I don’t think its laughable. If Ratland convention delegates are told to jump they’ll only ask how high. Ratland designed their convention rules with superdelegates to cut off any insurgent surprises against the status quo. If there’s to be an insurgency against the incumbent the DNC will order it and say “The people have spoken!”. I think it’s very possible and the cleanest solution if they want to pull that trigger.
3) is the laughable theory while 4) is a step partially into the unknown plus the GOP would be involved in part of the process -””majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide” - so the GOP would be involved. It would not be exclusively at Rat process. Research the whole Nixon-Agnew-Ford-Rockefeller affair not 25th Amendment but the wheels grinding would be similar.
Somewhere some Rat is doing the calculus of what happens to them down ticket. They may decide preserving that the best option. This means option 5) letting Biden lose and spend the next 4 years fighting everything Trump does. Work for a resurgence in 2028 the voting public is stupid enough to go for that even if Trump does well in his term. The public will think it’s the Rats’ turn now!
This is why I think 2) is their best choice. They control the path with 5) as Plan B.
I will concede to you that my use of laughable on #2 may not be correct.
However, I find the removal of Biden at the convention so unlikely that I might start making bets on it.
Biden has all the democrat delegates and primary wins, plus the democrat popular vote(which is so important to them), but super delegates and a few operators are going to oust Biden.
The party of democracy would allow undemocratic methods to remove Biden? How would they pull this off without becoming a laughing stalk?
My prediction is “Ruth Bader Biden” isn’t resigning and isn’t going anywhere until he’s made to leave the Presidency.
This is why I think 2) is their best choice. They control the path with 5) as Plan B.
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I agree with your statement, if they wanted to remove him.
I’m just not sure they’ll even try to remove him.