Subject: Re: NY Times Editorial Board -- Biden Must Exit Race
Given what Albaby1 has said on the subject, which makes it sound extremely difficult to replace Biden, how would you see this working? Wouldn't Kamala be the likely replacement and would that be better in terms of getting persuadable's votes? Would the trauma of trying to switch now tear the Dem Party apart?

I don’t view Kamala as the automatic successor. While Vice Presidents often run following their term(s), it isn’t always true, (and when they do they don’t always win) and all Biden would have to do is release his delegates without favor and many contenders could emerge, just as they do in the Primaries. That would free Newsom, Whitmer, Buttegeig, or others to try rounding up delegates - just as used to happen prior to McGovern’s “takeover” and the institution of Primaries happened in the first place. Conventions used to be the place where candidates were selected, I see no reason it couldn’t happen again.

As this guy says in the Washington Post, the idea of a Convention selecting an unknown delegate would electrify the country and give it the greatest summertime reality show in half a century:

https://wapo.st/3zvOEOA

Yes, it would a highly compressed time scale, but in some ways that could be an advantage, without all the mudslinging and overheated rhetoric that accompanies the long, drawn out primary season. It would also give the Republicans less time to foist yet another long negative campaign on the American people, something they so excel at.