I got a kick out of this! There Has to Be a Backup Plan. There’s a Backup Plan, Right? Inside the 2024 soul-searching that’s happening in every corner of the Democratic Party. On a Tuesday evening in April, nearly half a century after Joe Biden first publicly mused about running for president, an unsettled cross section of the Democratic Establishment assembled at Pinehurst, a golf resort in North Carolina... Governor Roy Cooper — the conference’s host, who had twice won North Carolina in the same years the swing state was carried by Donald Trump — was the most frequent topic of shadow-campaign chatter. Governor Phil Murphy, the New Jerseyan whose national ambitions are among Washington’s worst-kept secrets, was a close second. Also in heavy rotation, according to Democratic power brokers in the mix (and familiar with months of similar conversations): Governor J. B. Pritzker, the billionaire hotel-chain heir from Illinois, and Governor Jared Polis, the Coloradan with a mandate-light approach to COVID. When the conversation stretched into the bar, it lingered on Governor Gavin Newsom, who is coasting to reelection after defeating a recall attempt in California, and Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who knows from personal experience about the rising threat of white nationalism in Michigan. Look alive Democrats, these may be your 2024 Presidential pick...assuming the Party can figure out how to ease Grandpa Simpson out of his chair.
Democrats are fuct in 2024. If Biden runs he’ll get hammered and badly. If anyone else runs they can’t possibly run on how good Biden made things, they’d have to admit he screwed up badly and then point out how they’d fix it. Of course, once they point out how they’ll fix it they’ll be slammed for not telling Biden to do that in the first place. As for Harris getting the nod if Biden bails out, I say go for it. She’s the Vice President, historic in case you didn’t know, and all of Biden’s screw ups occurred when she was the last person in the room with him, or so the story goes. And the story mentioned Mooch, the woman(?) who was insulted for being mistaken as a Walmart employee, who said the White House was like a prison, and was disgusted by the old white men in the room. She’s a racist pure and simple.
