Dems Panic - CNN; Plot to Run Obama For VP?

WASHINGTON - June 28, 2024 - PRLog -- Dems Panic - CNN; Plot to Run Obama For VP?
Yes, The Constitution Could Permit Obama to be President Again

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 27, 2024) -  There seems to be a clear consensus that President Joe Biden did so poorly in tonight's debate - at CNN panelists used the word "panic" - that Democrats should think seriously about approaching him to step down so that a stronger candidate with a better chance of beating Donald Trump can take over.

Indeed, some  have suggested that one reason Biden's team wanted a very early date was so that there would be time to replace him if he did poorly in a head-to-head debate with Trump; which is exactly what seems to have happened.  Indeed, things were happening even before the date.

Last week the Daily Mail reported that there is a Secret Democrat Plot to Replace Biden (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13481849/democrat-plot-biden-replacement-clinton-obama-pelosi-schumer.html) as the party's presidential candidate if he doesn't do well in the forthcoming debate with Donald Trump: "Now DailyMail.com has learned that if Joe stumbles in that first face-off with Trump or if his polling numbers keep falling, it'll take a united front of the liberal grandees to make Joe throw in the towel."

As to who could accomplish this dramatic change, the Daily Mail suggests that "Obama, Clinton, Pelosi, and Schumer might be able to pull off the maneuver if they coordinate Biden's stepping aside with a smooth Democratic National Convention in August and an elevation of an attractive alternative nominee."   [emphasis added]

Nate Silver has expressed similar concern about Biden's declining poll numbers, and The Hill is also hinting that: If Biden Doesn't Ace the First Debate, Will He Be Replaced at the Convention? (https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4723563-if-biden-doe...)

But until now there have been few if any suggestions as to a credible replacement candidate - an "attractive alternative nominee"- who can step in at the last minute and be likely to win, says public interest law professor John Banzhaf.

Banzhaf proposes just such a person - and, perhaps he suggests, the only such person in the Democratic party - who enjoys wide public support, has huge name recognition, doesn't raise any concerns about age and/or mental competency (as both Biden and Trump do), and is far more popular that either of the current front runners who are disliked by a sizeable majority.  He is former two-term president Barack Obama.

While Obama can't run for president again, the Constitution does not bar him from running for vice president, and then taking over as president if a re-elected Biden should ever became unable to discharge his duties.

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