To think Joe Biden needs to be replaced as a candidate

[Viviennemary]

I just saw a headline saying Biden absolutely lost the plot last night and was totally incoherent. Why on earth is he bring put forward as a candidate. I know a lot of folk on here think nothing could be worse than Trump. Or does it not really matter who is President as somebody else makes the big decisions anyway and the President is just a figurehead. I find it a bit scarey that the USA can only come up with those two. Many Democrats are apparently calling for him to be replaced.

It's an utter shit fest. He hasn't been found to be lacking capacity and unlike the UK, there's no such thing as a vote of no confidence. He's refusing to step aside and he's causing quite the consternation.

My DH and I were talking about the situation earlier and commenting that Trump’s court cases and guilty verdict now seem like old news here in the US, everyone’s focusing on Biden’s gaffes.

I’m so frustrated with the Democratic Party, Trump should have been relatively easy to defeat but now it’s very uncertain.

From what I heard on our news here the Vice President isn't very popular. Or can they choose somebody else. They need to do something fairly quickly.

They can choose someone else, but I'm pretty sure I heard that donations made to the Biden / Harris campaign can only be used if one of them is the candidate.

If Newsom/Whitmer/Pritzker/whoever were parachuted in then they'd need to start fundraising again from scratch. Not necessarily insuperable: a lot of Democrat donors went on strike after the debate, and Prizker has more money of his own than God.

Yes I think I heard something about funding on the news a day or two ago. There would be a problem. Time is running out. Surely they must know this. But I suppose things will be going on behind the scenes. But why they ever thought the increasingly frail looking Biden was up to the job is anybody's guess.

I'd bet on this too.

Honestly it almost feels like it's on purpose.

To what end? I don't know, and actually I don't think it is on purpose. But it's so over the top it seems like they can't actually think they are making the right decisions.