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It looks as though I voted with the minority in your survey. I voted to stick with Biden. I did so for a simple and fundamental reason: He alone has defeated Trump. He earned renomination handily in the primaries. To strip him of the nomination at this point is a little akin to the Trumpists trying to undo (illegally) the 2020 presidential election. But I would rather have 10 percent of Joe Biden than 100 percent of Trump. Democrats have spent all this time and energy to dump Biden when the focus should be on Trump and what he represents. Hell! Trump should not be eligible to run for president ever again. That a once major political party has now nominated him three times for this office is breathtaking. But instead of targeting that, Democrats go after one of the three most transformative presidents in my 80 years. It is heartbreaking. If Biden hangs in and loses, the Demorats will have an easy target to blame. But they need also look in the mirror at themselves.

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There is no unicorn candidate who will get everyone to magically unite behind them, get a national campaign spun up from nothing and somehow get all that money replaced in three months. Instead we're going to have chaos at the convention, the Republicans will fight like hell to keep Joe's name on ballets if we do switch, resulting in increased rationalizations for rejecting ballots; and meanwhile Trump will coast to victory because we're all too busy shooting ourselves in the foot.

If you didn't like the candidate we had, you should have been pushing for a new one since **before** the primaries. Now, like it or not, you're stuck with this one. He's done a helluva job for the last four years and I don't see any reason to suspect he won't continue to do an excellent job for the next four. And should his health/mental acuity take a sudden nosedive over those next four years, well, that's what the VP is there for.

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Great leaders know when it is time to pass the torch to a new generation. See Washington, George.

Biden can still save his legacy of an extremely productive progressive administration, succeeding against virulent opposition from the MAGAites. But if he hangs on much longer that legacy will be lost.

His best move now would be to step down from the presidency to put Harris on point now to show her mettle.

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I suggest after the election that the Democratic Party needs to revamp how primaries are conducted and candidates are chosen

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My mom is between 70-80 and follows national politics very closely. This week she went from Biden's been doing the job to I don't think he has four more years in him and from I don't know about Kamala to Kamala's our best bet. I don't think she's a bell weather per se, but as an older person she's always been extremely skeptical of criticism about Biden's age. She is now framing this as more about his performance, and that's her tipping point. Her decision about Kamala is based on the ease of the campaign transition -- practicality.

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