Posted on 07/20/2024 8:03:23 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Dems return to Tammany Hall tactics with backroom dealings to boot Biden
Smoke-filled Rooms? Should Biden opt to step aside, it is far from certain that Vice President Kamala Harris would be the automatic stand-in on the party ticket.
As Democratic powerbrokers attempt to pressure President Joe Biden into bowing out of reelection, his departure could set up a messy selection process for his replacement that circumvents the primary electorate and threatens to send the party back to the days of Tammany Hall.
Biden, 81, has faced calls to step aside as the party nominee in the wake of his disastrous performance in a CNN presidential debate against former President Donald Trump. During that event, Biden often appeared lost on stage and stumbled over both stairs and his answers, which reignited longstanding concerns over his age, mental acuity, and fitness for office.
Should Biden opt to step aside, it is far from certain that Vice President Kamala Harris would be the automatic stand-in on the party ticket. The imminent approach of the party convention, moreover, could lead to last-minute jockeying for the top slot.
For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Democratic Party politics were dominated by Tammany Hall, a New York City-based executive committee that maintained political control through mafia-like tactics and behind-the-scenes power broking.
A potentially brokered convention post-primary with little voter influence could see the party return to such machine politics, an ironic development in light of the party’s repeated insistence that former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, represents a “threat to Democracy.”
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If only William Tweed could talk........
Smoke filled rooms with smoking not allowed. What fun is that?
I was 14. Watergate was wall to wall everyday. The impeachment hearings seemed to go on forever. I don’t know about backroom politics, but I think he knew the writing was on the wall and stepped down after he made the deal with Ford for the pardon.
And that was before the 24 hour news cycle and cable TV.
Ha. That old crook would plead the fifth till it came out his ears.
Ha. That old crook would plead the fifth till it came out his ears.
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