This article is like a paragraph and a half with no alternate candidate suggestions. As I said before; sure, get someone else I guess. But just calling for him to step down with no game plan is a recipe for disaster.
Sounds to me like Schiff himself is testing the waters as that alternate candidate. Which, frankly, wouldn’t be a bad choice. I can think of few other Democrats as uniquely qualified to run on the “Trump is an existential threat to our democracy” platform that the DNC seems content to put all it’s chips on.
I can think of few other Democrats as uniquely qualified to run on the “Trump is an existential threat to our democracy” platform that the DNC seems content to put all it’s chips on.
The problem is that Schiff has the personality of a block of wood. Even in pre-Trump times you needed something resembling a personality on the national stage.
I disagree. The serious candidates aren’t going to start making cases for themselves until Biden steps down.
Newsom.
Whitmer.
Kelly.
There are plenty of options.
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.
I’d give you five bucks to run as the Democratic nominee.
They lied about his mental competency and then got found out on it. They violated the trust of the voters in a big way. And they’re refusing to rectify the problem.
It is clear that Democrats have no desire to lead this nation. They ultimately don’t care what happens to anybody that is affected by the psychopathic machinations of the Republican party as long as they can preserve their careers.
Until the Democratic establishment is cannibalized from the inside out the way Donald Trump did to the Republican party then nothing will change. It takes a disruptor to upset the status quo. Until the left has that person, we will continue to see this country be overtaken by minority rule, and we will deserve the fate that we get.
