After expressing concerns that Joe Biden may not be fit to serve another term, Democratic Party spokespeople and some major media outlets seem to have begun to defend his retention, a conclusion well-supported by Biden’s wobbly performance in Thursday’s debate. There are good reasons for this, some of which should be obvious. First, it is difficult to remove a presidential candidate who has already won nearly every state’s primaries and is waiting to be formally nominated at the party’s national convention in August. There are ways around this fait accompli, but they are messy and divisive. Unless Biden recuses himself, we can expect a lot of messy infighting if the convention tries to remove him.
There is no reason to think that keeping Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee will doom his entire party in November.
Second, the Democratic Party and its media assistants have already spent a great deal of time and energy cultivating Biden as a wise elder statesman who would courageously take on the American Hitler. If these former supporters decide to remove him, they will have a lot to explain, such as why they never told us before that Biden is a mentally declining head of state, something they have tried so hard to hide.
Clearly, what we saw last Thursday was a particularly vivid example of Biden being as we have seen and heard him for some time. The media relentlessly covered up this fact, for example when its representatives, most egregiously the Associated Press, claimed that the video proving Biden’s mental and physical frailty was a “cheap fake.” As is now clear, it was the media and party operatives who were lying, not the footage that showed Biden staggering, falling off the stage and slurring his speech at the G7 meeting in Italy last month.
Third, when Democrats nominate Biden’s successor, they don’t have much of a backlog of candidates. They might not be able to nominate a photogenic but performative candidate like California Governor Gavin Newsom without running into the roadblock that is Vice President Kamala Harris. The official black female surrogate now peering wistfully into the Oval Office is unlikely to fade quietly into the night, and certainly not to endorse Biden’s successor.
Unfortunately, Kamala is less popular than her party leader, and the same appears to be true of Joe’s other proposed successors since Thursday.
Fourth, there is no reason to think that keeping Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee would doom his entire party in November. Democrats have such a large base of support, especially in blue states, that even a stammering, older presidential candidate should be able to get roughly half the vote.
Their party is skilled at fabricating votes other than those cast at polling places monitored by representatives of both parties on Election Day, and their Secretary of State is skilled at concealing election fraud, a skill that the current Governor of Pennsylvania has refined to a veritable art, as has his fellow Democratic Governor of Arizona.
As always, Democrats will do everything in their power to win the November election. Molly Hemingway has lamented the “systematic corruption of our electoral system,” but this is a truism. Hemingway argues that this fraud is now so complete that it doesn’t matter whether the legal term “fraud” technically applies.
Fifth, even if Biden falls short in November, it won’t affect Democrats running for lower-level office. In my state, the lackluster and articulate Democratic Senator Bob Casey Jr. has a big lead over his more eloquent Republican rival, Dave McCormick. The efforts to implicate Casey in Biden’s border issue, a perfectly legitimate charge, just don’t seem to be dying down.
Democrats are better organized, they effectively use state government offices to advance party interests, and they have lots of money, including some from Hollywood. Even if Trump narrowly wins the election here, as he did in 2016, there is no reason to think Democrats will do poorly in other elections.
And Democrats, at least in my state, seem to have more passion. They are fueled by woke politics and the demand for virtually unlimited abortion rights. Like MAGA populists, these leftists have a cause that drives them to vote for their candidate no matter what. Two years ago, this left-wing base in Pennsylvania helped elect Sen. John Fetterman, then running as a brain-damaged left-wing Democrat.
Clearly left-leaning feminist governors like Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Katie Hobbs of Arizona enjoy solid majority support in their states, with Whitmer’s approval rating at 63% even after she brutally locked down her state’s residents during a COVID-19 outbreak she instigated. Regardless of Biden’s results in November, these icons of progressivism seem enduring in heavily Democratic and heavily Democratic states.
