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She's right. It's annoying at best to have these people saying Biden is a problem, without articulating at least an idea of who should be nominated and how that would work this late in the game.
Exactly
Everyone can agree on something being an issue but there needs to be consensus on solutions
Personally I think Kamala Harris is a viable plan. She's already VP, she's instantly recognizable, and she's also polling well against trump.
And honestly I'm starting to think the plan might be something along the lines of "Keep Biden in until after the election then scoot Harris in under the 25th amendment"
That's the worst possible plan, IMO. Biden can lead, I would be fine with him being president for another 4 years. The issue is he can't win against Donald Trump. He was behind in all swing states, and that was before the debate, multiple gaffes and speech mistakes, moments of confusion and freezing, etc...
Democrats need to be winning by 3-4% in the popular vote to overcome the electoral college bias. Maybe he's squeaking by in the popular vote isn't enough to win.
50 other Democrats, like Joe Biden himself said. This isn't a close election because people love Joe Biden, it's because they hate Donald Trump. Trump isn't some electoral force of nature, he's a weak candidate who's had the fortune to run against another weak candidate (now and in 2016). There isn't a big focus on "double-haters" in normal elections. Most people don't want these candidates.