California Congressmember Adam Schiff warned donors that Democrats would lose the presidency, control of the Senate and miss out on the chance to reclaim the House unless President Biden steps aside. Adam Schiff, who is running for California’s U.S. Senate seat in November, made the comments during a private fundraising dinner in New York, according to new reports.
Despite mounting fears over Biden’s ability to beat Trump, Democrats appear to be moving ahead with plans to hold a virtual vote confirming Biden as their nominee weeks before the DNC.
Forget stepping down as the candidate, he should step down as President, turn it all over to Harris, and let her run it out.
But she’d actually do worse against Trump.
She won’t win though. She is just not well liked enough, sadly. Don’t know why, but look back at her previous polling, and it’s obvious she just never really hit it off with voters. Who knows if that’s just because of the choices that were at hand or not, and things have entirely changed, but it’s still a metric people look to when testing whether this should happen. The biggest differential might be who she would choose as her running mate, which could shift either way. If it’s Gavin Newsom, I expect a lot of turmoil. If it’s another woman, think of the pearl clutching midwesterners and plains folk who are scared of “women running the country” (a real bullshit thing that is still quite negatively polled).
There just aren’t a lot of good options right now, unless they go the celeb route for that clout in what the crazy MAGAmorons are calling “vote stealing”. Michelle Obama, Jon Stewart, George Clooney, whomever. It’s fucking dumb we’ve gotten to this stage and they don’t have a backup plan for preventing worse.