Stick or twist? The gambler’s choice is the Democrats’ awful dilemma as the US presidential election draws ever closer. Do they stick with Joe Biden, their painfully decrepit Commander-in-Chief, who is losing in the polls? Or twist and gamble on replacing him, which could tear the party apart and make Donald Trump’s victory even more likely?
The President may already be on borrowed time
The news over the weekend showed that the Democrats are already at war with themselves. Biden’s ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos did little to reassure the President’s anxious supporters and Sunday brought more news of House Democrats, and other senior Democratic figures, calling for him to make way. A newly hatched plan for a special ‘blitz primary’ to find a replacement candidate has been briefed-out. The idea is somehow to persuade Biden to fall on his sword in mid-July – perhaps satisfying his vast ego by casting him as a ‘modern day George Washington’ in the fight to save democracy, someone willing to give up power for the greater good.
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