by Pa Rock
Democrat
The US presidential race is in the throes of a reset today after President Biden finally relented to increasing pressure from within the Democratic Party to withdraw as a candidate in this year's election due to infirmities associated with aging. The other elderly candidate, Donald Trump, remains in the race as the Republican standard bearer. Joe Biden has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the Democratic nominee, and she has vowed to "earn and win" the nomination and right to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
Vice President Harris spent the remainder of yesterday, after the news broke about her boss, working the phones and speaking to over one hundred movers and shakers in the Democratic Party. She has already accumulated an impressive list of endorsements from prominent party members and even the endorsements of a few state delegations to next month's Democratic Convention in Chicago. Notably absent from the list of early endorsements for Harris are the big four: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and former President Barack Obama, all of whom brought some pressure to bear on Biden to withdraw as a candidate. Speculation is that those four are standing aside from the selection process, at least temporarily, so as to not give the impression that the replacement nominee is being selected by the "party bosses."
But, selection process aside, Kamala Harris appears to be massing her strength and heading toward the nomination. Former Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who recently became an Independent and has a long history of voting with Republicans, is making some noise about returning to the Democratic fold and challenging Harris for the nomination, but it seems unlikely in this day and age that Democrats would rush to embrace a conservative politician whose personal fortune and political career are rooted in coal mining and the fossil fuel industry.
I am personally enthusiastic about a Kamala Harris candidacy. She has the background, experience, wisdom, and ability to lead the nation and is an all-around excellent choice. We are heading into the most important election in modern times, and now we have a good chance of winning.
(This has been a very messy political year with regard to presidential politics. Wouldn't it be great if democracy prevailed and every voter in America had an equal say in who the nominees were instead of the people in early primary and caucus states making those choices for us? - Perhaps three regional national primary days - And wouldn't it be great if every vote cast in a presidential election was actually counted toward the direct election of the President, and the person who received the most total votes actually won - without the electoral college bullshit! Maybe if we pump some real democracy back into democracy, we could get it right the first time But for now it is what it is.)
Give 'em hell, Kamala!
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