Plan B

Republicans want to point out Biden’s obvious limitations, but they don’t want him pushed aside because that would present a whole lot of challenges.

Let’s assume that Kamala Harris becomes the nominee. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would walk out together on the convention stage, holding one another’s hand up in the air. The media would hail it as a historic moment – the torch has been passed to the first black woman to run for president.

Harris’s polling now is not much better than Biden’s. But in the immediate aftermath of the Democrat National Convention, which will be a masterful Hollywood production reinforced by a fawning media establishment, I would bet the farm that she gets a significant bounce and jumps into a five- or six-point lead. Every attack against her would be deflected and denounced as “racism” or “sexism.”

Republicans would also be scrambling to remind people that Harris was the “Border Czar” and is the leader of Biden’s government-wide effort to deal with a major emergency. What’s the emergency? They’re terrified that the number of abortions may go down, and they’re doing everything they can to increase them.

Anyone who replaces Joe Biden will believe everything he believes. But they would be younger, more energetic, more charismatic, and more likely to fire up the left-wing base.