What does a BIDEN Presidency look like?

[Valmy]

Biden has COVID. 

Are you sure? So many rumors flying around. First he has Parkinsons, now Covid?

Or does he have both 

[Admiral Yi]

If he really has covid that's a perfect face saving reason to drop out. 

[Sophie Scholl]

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[Valmy]

What a bizarre time I live in. Well I hope he is just sick enough to drop out and then fully recovers so he has a relaxing retirement playing golf with Trump while somebody else is President.

[Admiral Yi]

We're saved!!! 

Maybe.  Hopefully.  Not resignedly.

Will be very interesting to watch the replacement play out. There has never been a smoke filled room brokered convention in my lifetime.

[Admiral Yi]

Man a lot of shit happening very quickly.

[Sophie Scholl]

Will be very interesting to watch the replacement play out. There has never been a smoke filled room brokered convention in my lifetime.

We shall have to turn to grumbler for stories of how it felt. 

[Sheilbh]

Will be very interesting to watch the replacement play out. There has never been a smoke filled room brokered convention in my lifetime.

Obviously I think this should happen and is a good idea (I'm reasonably convinced by Harris now ).

But I feel like the possibility of this type of convention always comes up at some stage in the primary - and I feel like it's entirely driven by this dynamic. Hacks who've never seen it desperate to cover one

[Valmy]

Youtube Historian Sean Munger has some amazing sections on National Conventions in his videos but the famous "doomed convention" for the Democrats in 1924 (exactly 100 years ago...that bodes well...) is one of the craziest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPORWowONV8

The Democrats do battle with the KKK and everybody losses. Well...except Calvin Coolidge and the Republicans.

[Sheilbh]

I'd love to see a proper convention that mattered. It didn't for Presidential purposes but Robert Caro's description of 1948 makes it sound incredible.

[Sheilbh]

Incidental from ABC Chief Washington correspondent. Conversations that should have happened when Biden indicated he'd stand for a second term - but welcome:

Jonathan Karl
@jonkarl
I am told Chuck Schumer had a  blunt one-on-one conversation with Biden Saturday afternoon in Rehoboth. Schumer forcefully made the case that it would be best if Biden bowed out of the race.

Schumer's office wouldn't comment on the specifics of the conversation, telling me only, "Leader Schumer conveyed the views of his caucus."
Hakeem Jeffries has expressed a similar view to Biden, according to a source familiar.  A Jeffries spokesman tells me, "The letter sent by Leader Hakeem Jeffries to his House Democratic colleagues speaks for itself. It was a private conversation that will remain private."

[Legbiter]

Incidental from ABC Chief Washington correspondent. Conversations that should have happened when Biden indicated he'd stand for a second term - but welcome:

Jonathan Karl
@jonkarl
I am told Chuck Schumer had a  blunt one-on-one conversation with Biden Saturday afternoon in Rehoboth. Schumer forcefully made the case that it would be best if Biden bowed out of the race.

Sounds like the dems held an intervention, it didn't work and now they're leaking the details. 

[Norgy]

Am I suffering from old age when I seem to remember that there was a "Anyone but Carter" campaign in the 1976 campaign among the Democrats? They wanted Jerry Brown, or, well, anyone but Carter.

[Admiral Yi]

I don't remember anything like that.  I remember Ted Kennedy sort of breaking a taboo by running against a sitting president.

[Valmy]

Am I suffering from old age when I seem to remember that there was a "Anyone but Carter" campaign in the 1976 campaign among the Democrats? They wanted Jerry Brown, or, well, anyone but Carter.

Are you thinking of the 1980 election? There was a lot of concern about Carter because of his malaise speech, the Iran hostage crisis, and the lingering economic problems from the oil embargo among Democratic leadership but he was still (and still is) beloved by Democratic voters.