JOE BIDEN FACES PRESSURE TO QUIT PRESIDENTIAL RACE SOON

Democratic Party members of the US Senate and House are aware that July is probably the final month to avoid serious electoral damage because of the Biden candidacy.

- MADHAV NAIAPAT

Information received from US Congressional districts across the country indicate that as early as the close of July, key members of the Democratic Party in both US Senate as well as the House of Representatives may be planning to meet President Joe Biden privately and say that their patience has run out. Rather than face an embarrassing revolt against his candidacy as the Democratic nominee for the US Presidential polls, they want Biden to graciously bow out of the race soon in favour of another nominee before they are forced to revolt. The greatest level of support within the party as successor to Biden is for Vice-President Kamala Harris. In choosing her to be his successor in the Presidential race, President Biden would avoid a messy contest for the nomination. Such a contest could prove disastrous and divisive for a Democratic Party already sharply divided over the Biden candidacy. In contrast to her outstanding performance as US Senator for California from 2017 until 2021, when Kamala Devi Harris assumed office as the Vice-President of the US, she withdrew into the shadow of the White House. Among the qualifications enumerated by Presidential nominees when they nominate an individual as their running mate is their presumed belief that the choice would be an able President, were the incumbent to pass on or be incapacitated. Once elected as President, incumbents usually get ignored by the White House when policy is being made. As had happened often with VicePresident Biden, including when he opposed the approval given by President Obama in 2011 for a team of US military commandos to “take out Bin Laden”, a mission successfully carried out on May 1, 2011.