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Not quite as simple as that in my opinion.Biden is behaving like Jeremy Corbyn did in the autumn of 2019. Despite overwhelming evidence that his position as leader /candidate is doing his party irreparable harm and facilitating the election of a lying populist, he refuses to stand aside to let someone more capable attempt to avert disaster.
Corbyn never had party support - Biden has had it until now in a big way.
There's a whole network of State and County Democratic party workers who have been putting grass roots efforts and developing campaign networks for Biden (who got 95% of primary votes). They have to be convinced and brought safely onside for a changeover to work.
The juggling act now is broadly with these options:
- Biden stays and the campaign falters because the optics work against him and this dominates the media narrative.
- Biden stays and the Democratic party goes up a gear using other big hitters to spread the media focus and take on Trump more directly.
- Biden goes and in a short time a strong successor is found with full backing of the Democratic party.
- Biden goes and his grassroots support fractures dividing and weakening the campaign.
Right now there's the up front media noise about Biden, the heart on sleeve panicking and there is, no doubt, a lot of hard headed scrabbling and strategising behind the scenes. There's no easy overnight decision because of all the strings that need pulling.
One thing's for sure - they've got to start really taking the fight to Trump who has had a free pass this week but still hasn't offered anything to those outside his base.