"PLAN C" - A Joe Biden + Barack Obama Ticket - is Publicized

WASHINGTON - July 4, 2024 - PRLog -- A better plan to help counteract Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance has emerged as an alternative to be considered alone with "Plan B" (to replace Biden as the Democratic candidate for president) - WASHINGTON EXAMINER - Biden-Obama is 'Plan C' Ticket (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3070360/biden-obama-is-plan-c-ticket/)

"With President Joe Biden today dismissing critics of his poor debate performance with former President Donald Trump, a 'Plan C' is being urged to help his wounded reelection effort across the finish line first on Election Day.  Advocates of 'Plan C' said the solution to Trump's surging campaign and Electoral College advantage is a simple one: replace Vice President Kamala Harris with former President Barack Obama."

"'A Biden-Obama ticket would have a much better chance of beating Trump,' said legal scholar John Banzhaf, a professor at George Washington University Law School.

"Banzhaf cited analysis by constitutional scholars dismissing concerns that the 12th and 22nd amendments bar a former two-term president from the vice presidency." Those agreeing with his analysis include Dan Coenen (https://www.google.com/url?esrc=s&q=&rct=j&sa...), Michael Dorf (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/06...), and Bruce Peabody (https://www.google.com/url?esrc=s&q=&rct=j&sa=U&url=https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1053%26context%3Dheadnotes&ved=2ahUKEwjg55LN6IOHAxU-GFkFHZyHA-IQFnoECAIQAg&usg=AOvVaw1DahKCYcADkNTjU4CDgeu1)), three former White House lawyers (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901572.html), and others, notes Banzhaf. "'The 22nd Amendment, which is most frequently cited as a bar to Barack Obama ever serving as president again, doesn't — according to its carefully crafted and very narrow exclusionary language,' Banzhaf said."

"Banzhaf said that having Obama as Biden's backup might give the country renewed confidence in the president. And, alternatively, Biden could run and win with Obama and then resign if he is as ill as some have speculated.  He said that plan would also allow him to break his promise not to pardon his son Hunter Biden from a gun conviction."

"Rather than simply offering the public the opportunity to have a second-term Biden president supported and backstopped by a very popular and clearly very capable former president Obama, and having someone with experience and a proven record as commander in chief should Biden not be able to continue to serve at anytime during a second four-year term, Biden might even consider announcing before the election that, if elected president, he would resign shortly after his inauguration so that Obama can then become president

Plan C may be a long shot, but it should at the very least be considered, since allowing a weakened and questionable Biden to continue to run with a vice president who all along has been even less popular than him, or trying to replace him with a new candidate at this late date (but with Harris reportedly (https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democrats-replace-biden-president-explained-8dc13b35) then in control of the entire war chest) might be even worse.

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