A Vanity Fair piece that acknowledges the situation if President Biden decided to NOT run for a second term in the folowing …
I agree with the thought that it would result in ‘free for all’……
“PLAN B IS COMPLETE FUCKING CHAOS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.”
President Joe Biden says he intends to run for reelection in 2024. And that Vice President Kamala Harris will again be on the ticket with him. In public, Biden’s top Democratic primary rivals from 2020 say the proper, if slightly less than definitive, things. (Bernie Sanders: “I think next time around you’re going to see another candidate carrying the progressive banner.” Elizabeth Warren: “Joe Biden is running for president, and I expect to support him.”)
So this is going to be a very short story. Right?
Maybe if Biden’s job approval numbers hadn’t started sinking in July, gone underwater in August, and plunged, by several counts, into the weak low 40s as the new year began. Perhaps if COVID cases and inflation hadn’t been trending in the opposite direction during that same stretch, the latter boosted in February by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And certainly if, when the next presidential campaign is in full swing, Biden was not going to be closing in on his 82nd birthday. “I’m just going to be brutally honest about this,” says a national Democratic strategist. “But I don’t think he’s physically up to being able to run again. I’m optimistic that by the summer of 2024 the country is going to be back to 95 percent normality—and he’s going to have to run a vigorous, hard campaign that he didn’t in 2020. He’s not going to be able to stay in the basement.”