Democrats feel doomed. What’s the least risky move?

With falling poll numbers and President Biden's public appearances doing little to reassure voters he’s still got what it takes to win, Democrats are faced with a difficult decision about how to proceed. Biden has dug in, pledging to the public that he isn’t going anywhere. Our columnists talk through whether Biden can salvage his campaign, how possible it really is to change course now and who else could step up.

[@FishareFriendsNotFood972]

Biden needs to leave, immediately. Because Trump needs to lose, and polls are making it clear he will beat Biden

[@onatukys5013]

The polls are garbage, they are only a snapshot in the current moment.

[@MayaWaters12]

Well this is the Dems fault. They had 4 years to prepare a new candidate. Now they made their bed. It’s Joever

[@nicosilva4750]

I am so tired of hearing "changing candidates would be so hard... blah blah blah." They need to put their big boy pants on and do it for goodness sake. If there is ANY chance, everyone is going to have to work together to get it done. Instead, they are fighting over IF it can be done. All that is doing is cementing the loss.

[@agoodchow]

If Democratic party do not change candidate and gamble now, there will be high probability that Biden makes another major gaffe 2-10 weeks later. Then it will be all dead end.

[@RasAlHaq]

Agreed. Biden is a hero, but he failed to calm fears about his age, and failed to take the fight to Trump. He has step aside and let Kamala vigorously prosecute the case against Trump.

[@ItsReallyJackBlack]

Exactly! Screw the Democrat Voters that just Voted for him!

[@RasAlHaq]

@@ItsReallyJackBlack Voted for THEM. It's the VP's job to step up if the president can't continue.

[@nicosilva4750]

@@ItsReallyJackBlack It was a primary!!! The candidate has NOT been chosen. The delegates choose the actual candidate. There are numerous ways to allow the voters to express their choice. It isn't cast into stone. Open conventions are around for a reason, and this could be one of them. Do you think for a second, that if they allowed all of those voters to vote again, they would choose Biden now? Biden is scared to death of that vote. He knows he would not be the choice. So no. no one is being screwed over.

[@skyinsession]

i feel like all these pundits are very attached to the idea that harris or whoever must have a campaign and there isnt enough time to add in all the stops at random diner in whatever tiny town or do some tiktok with random influencer, but does anyone outside of DC care about any of that? does it make any difference? people right now just want something different and harris isnt very new but simply not being trump and not being old might be all that matters.

[@thelarson1000]

Don’t know tapper because no one watches CNN

[@zakuworks000]

Based

[@afnDavid]

You a Democrat? What's your move? You can try telling the truth. End your criminal agendas. Honor and love God.

[@MegaAslan10]

Its too late. THe arrogance of the leadership and Biden to just ignore the real concern of ordinary people and the need to beat Trump with the best candidate. A curse on all of them, bringing a Trump re election on us all

[@mikewilliams6025]

You'll be happier in 4 years.

[@thelarson1000]

Turn out the lights. The parties over

[@supermash1]

party's

[@GeorgeSmileyOBE]

“Party is” It is unadvisable to use a contraction when it might engender confusion.

[@mikewilliams6025]

@@GeorgeSmileyOBE There is no other way to interpret it.

[@mikewilliams6025]

What party exactly?

[@supermash1]

@@GeorgeSmileyOBE I've learned something today. Sounds like sound advice (... er, maybe that's a bit confusing /that is a bit confusing)?

[@chazzwestlv]

Biden needs to stay in, 4 months out, yeah stay the course 💙💙💙Biden 100%

[@mazariamonti]

There is so much time left to get a new candidate ready it’s ridiculous. You could put up a new candidate in October and the whole country would be equally as familiar with them as they are with Biden in like a week and a half.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Ikr it's such an American blind spot! So many other countries don't need months and months for a campaign. This is an archaic idea left over from before the internet, when a new candidate had only TV and radio and print media to speak to voters. We STILL have plenty of time to pick someone else.

[@wulphstein]

Why would I support a party that could cause such a clusterf****😮

[@karenturner3969]

Because the Republican party is worse and Robert Kennedy Jr. has often been on the outer edge of the sanity spectrum.

[@TysonQuick]

Agreed. MAGA cult is a disaster

[@ronald3836]

This is the point indeed.

[@snizami]

Because it's cleverly kept as an ultimatum between two horrible options.

[@onatukys5013]

Have you read Trump's project 2025 that would destroy our economy

[@kiwiitmlm]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸GoBiden 😂👍SAVE DEMOCRACY 👍😉

[@supermash1]

LOL!

[@mikemanner9811]

Come on Democrats, there’s always the shower rod.

[@countrycountry6729]

I want a president who can ride a bike.

[@rachaelmcgill7653]

Literally Anybody Else 2024

[@thosearentpillows5638]

Trump won’t hurt you, just your feelings.

[@whypothetical]

Literally quoting Mein Kampf in stump speeches and talking about putting people in detention camps, but ok.

[@mytube8985]

​@@whypotheticalStay scared. 😮. 😂🤣😂. 🤡

[@itsallfunandgames723]

He might send those grannies in through the velvet ropes again! Take cover! 🪖🪖🪖

[@pixelpusher1393]

​@@mytube8985 trumpanzees are scared of immigrants, democrats are scared of fascists.

[@MayaWaters12]

@@whypothetical didn’t do any of that. But since you need to lie so bad to win😂. Hop off, you drink to much of the Koolaid

[@albertoarcos5822]

😂😂😂😂. The Washington post is the only thing doomed…. Gtfooh

[@jeffydahmer-ln6go]

Least risky move: Dorfus Maneuver. Look it up.

[@LeadingIndicator]

GET HIM OUT OF OFFICE NOW

[@kbuckendorf4287]

Harris would be my choice. She can at least articulate the arguments against a Trump Presidency. Biden, to coin the last word of the host, just can't. And nobody is going to be talking policy. This is the most substance free election I have seen in over a generation.

[@M1911jln]

While I am not a big fan of Harris, she at least has mental acuity.

[@kbuckendorf4287]

@@M1911jln People evolve over 4 years. She might have moved into the 'think before talk' stage of maturity which clipped her wings in the 2020 Democratic campaign. She wouldn't have been my first choice four years ago, or even a year ago....but she's pretty much the only option unless Michelle Obama comes from the sky on guilded wings of a pegasus. She's done well on abortion campaign issues and she was happy to go toe to toe over Florida's modifications to history curriculum. She's had some good foreign visits and she does have a good ability to connect with individuals. And I could see her wresting back much of the lost black support for the 2024 campaign. I was pissed off at her on the border issue. There is significant space in the foreign policy arena to address migration caused by the instability South of the border and she didn't take on the task the President gave her. There's probably more to that story.

[@chuckles3265]

Don't sleep on Afroman for president.

[@thewaffle003]

Lol, the irony of discussing whether Biden can discuss in-depth policy when Trump is running in the opposition seat

[@kiwiitmlm]

Bezo paper for trump 😂🤣

[@RogerFusselman]

I see no way out of Democrats losing badly in 2024. This whole thing has nudged me in the direction of possibly voting for Trump, the other deficient candidate. Just lose and take notes on how you lost. Blame nobody else but yourselves. Fix all the problems to be ready by 2028.

[@pixelpusher1393]

Don´t follow your logic. Because Biden´s age is showing, a criminal proto-fascist is the default alternative? Complete non-sequitur.

[@operadoc]

If trump wins, there won't be a true election in 2028

[@pl7868]

ignore a major trump donar posting video's on youtube 🙂

[@worldadventuretravel]

"Donar" 😂

[@kornkobbler1]

​@@worldadventuretravelthe funny part is that it translates to "give"

[@pl7868]

@@worldadventuretravel give me a break it's the second litre of wine , Doner 😂 and Donar is a east coast canadian sandwich almost the same as a gyro , is it doner to drunk to spell sry

[@sethrich2790]

wtf does that mean?

[@sethrich2790]

@@worldadventuretravelDEI brain. 🤪

[@kornkobbler1]

Nominate robert de niro, quick!

[@ronald3836]

Jimmy Carter has more wisdom and experience.

[@brothertaro2008]

The least risky move is voting against Trump.

[@MayaWaters12]

Yeah us independents did that last time and the economy got worse, rent is still high, so is food, war is around the corner. But this time you want us to reside with the Parkinson Patient? No thanks

[@zxyatiywariii8]

​@@MayaWaters12Exactly! I voted for Biden in 2020 and now he's literally beset by progressive dementia and still, I'm supposed to line up like a good little girl and vote for him? No! 🙅🏾‍♀️ They need to pick a VIABLE Democrat at the DNC else I'm voting third party. Enough with them taking my vote for granted.

[@Pasta-B1FBA]

♟2006-2021🔮

[@johndarkorlean8308]

The least risky move, the only move is to give up. Irresponsible puppets.

[@ravalkun]

Ol' scrappy Joe from Scranton will pull through! He just needs our support.

[@4336aaa]

Sorry, but not everybody is concerned about the reality show, dramatized garbage put forward by the campaigns and their money(media). Not feeling doomed and never voting for Trump. Vote blue.

[@RedneckAlien42069]

RFK JR FOR PRESIDENT

[@Joel-ml5bg]

Hey bedwetters! You asked for it, you got it.

[@amelghrici3408]

SOS Gaza children and babies died no food no water many poeple die.poeple of USA stop this War please please

[@sambarrows3943]

Eric Holder for President, Kamala Harris for VP

[@sethrich2790]

You’re now fk’d no matter what.

[@thewaffle003]

I agree Whitmer is the best alternative.

[@vladseva2327]

If Biden stays, then RFK!

[@iketheranter9126]

😂🤣🤣🤣 Doomed?? What are you smoking?? Our candidate has the best record and isn't threatening to become a dictator.

[@eddiebbernard4769]

Biden is the dictator. He is not leaving when everyone wants him to leave. What record does Biden have? High gas, mortgage rates and grocery prices.and high crime rates , funding two wars that started on his watch with taxpayer money and open border in which taxpayer money is being used to house and feed the illegals.

[@LUM-kb2rl]

Man ive been a democrat my whole life, and hearing that ANYONE thinks Biden is doing a good job is news to me.

[@bevsputler5455]

They want us to feel doomed

[@TheTCOLL]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pixelpusher1393]

@@MagicalCreations-fw7pj Speaking of which: Where´s melanoma dump?