> If your party has an encumbent President, you run the President. No other candidate would have the same amount of power Of course both of us are speculating,

> If your party has an encumbent President, you run the President. No other candidate would have the same amount of power Of course both of us are speculating, but my view is that this is conventional wisdom in unconventional times The democrats keep playing with a rule book that the other side threw away a decade ago. This is why they lose. Republican voters are fed a steady diet of misinformation on everything the Democrats do. The hatred of Biden on the right boggles my mind, since he was such middle of the road guy, just keeping things status quo. Hillary also had decades of baggage from talk radio hosts and Fox News against her. But of course Harris was weaker. It’s telling to me that despite her weakness, nominating her caused a panic on the right because it instantly nullified all of their canned attacks against Biden. Imagine what would have happened if they’d fostered a new, young and unencumbered by Fox News propaganda presidential candidate.