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Then there's Kamala Harris. What to do with her?

Friedman's naivete isn't in assuming that the Democrats have rules in place if Biden were to voluntarily withdraw from the race. It's in assuming that the convention would quickly rally around a replacement.

Leave aside that it's exceptionally unlikely that Biden would drop out. And that it's exceptionally unlikely that if he did drop out, he wouldn't tell his delegates (who are all Biden loyalists) to vote for his own chosen successor (which would almost certainly be Harris) - that he would allow a true "open" convention.

If he did do that (which he almost certainly won't), the result would be a bloodbath. Not a quick "let's all rally round for the greater good" anointment of a replacement candidate.

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