Not a full month after publicly imploding during his CNN debate against Donald Trump in Atlanta, President Joe Biden's gambit to spar against the former president has proven a career-ending catastrophe, with the incumbent president announcing that while he will fulfill the remainder of his term in office, he will step down from his reelection bid. Biden has notably defied the insinuations of party elders that his resignation ought to be followed by an open primary, instead endorsing his vice president and endowing Kamala Harris with their $250 million war chest in the process.
Biden's decision constitutes a stunning admission that he is unable to campaign, incapable of beating his Republican opposition, and, by extension, unfit to serve as the leader of the free world, just as Special Counsel Robert Hur conceded that the "elderly man" was unfit to stand trial. But the more politically punishing conundrum for Democrats is that after four years of calling Trump the nation's single greatest threat to our 248-year-old democratic experiment, the party is slated to rob voters of their democratic rights for a second time in a row.
Although conservatives are often referring to the liberal media that blasted us as conspiracy theorists spreading "cheap fakes" when we correctly pointed out the octogenarian president's overt and increasing senility or when we point out that the Democratic presidential primary seemed more than a little rigged, the party itself used legal means to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters.
In the Democratic presidential primaries in Indiana, Alaska, Ohio, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Montana, all other challengers to Biden were blocked from being named on the ballots, and the Democratic presidential primaries were outright cancelled in Florida and Delaware. (In New Jersey, only an unknown pro-life activist was allowed as a named challenger to Biden, despite Marianne Williamson still pursuing her quixotic bid against the incumbent.) All in all, the 57 million residents of those eight states amount to about 17% of the country's population disenfranchised during the Democratic presidential primary.
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When Biden imploded that fateful Thursday night in Atlanta, he didn't just upend his own campaign, but he also eviscerated the credibility of a media that covered for him and the trust of a party that vouched for his ability. Party kingmakers such as Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and former President Barack Obama, helpfully through his Hollywood conduit George Clooney , have telegraphed their demand for an open primary to spare the party from Harris, who polls slightly better than Biden in head-to-head matchups against Trump, but not anywhere near what they imagine a, say, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro could manage.
But Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Nobody in the primary actually voted for Harris, but the party already rigged one primary. Replacing the candidate the party coronated with the woman most closely tethered to his political fate feels less insurrection-y than blindsiding the electorate with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer or California Gov. Gavin Newsom, but Harris is hardly a proven fighter, with her one other presidential campaign ending before a single Iowa caucus commenced.
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