For the sake of the United States, Dr. Jill Biden must now do the hardest thing possible and ask her own husband to reflect on his position.
term is seeming less and less likely, and Democratic voters and pundits like seem increasingly nervous that we’re marching to our own funeral. But the prospect of challenging an incumbent president just a few months before an election also seems hubristic and dangerous, especially when the Democratic Party is deeply divided, the vice president is unpopular and has been largely marginalized, and there is no obvious Plan B.
Many Democratic voters are no doubt wishing that Biden hadn’t run again, and that a new candidate could have been selected months ago. But we can’t turn back the clock. And frankly, anyone who tells you they know the best way for Democrats to win is lying to themselves, to you, or probably both.
A replacement candidate selected at the convention also isn’t an easy solution, given that the Democratic Party is already profoundly divided, with many on its left flank threatening to pull their votes from Biden and protest the convention over Israel’s war in Gaza, while a farther-left candidate would be a non-starter for a great many moderates the party needs to beat Trump. There is no Bright Young Thing primed to swoop in, unite the left with the middle, and save the day.
It's time for Biden’s inner circle to do the hardest things friends, colleagues, and loved ones can do: Intervene, knowing it will be tremendously hurtful to the person you care about. The needed interventionists include Biden’s long-time friends and advisors, including those closest to him in the White House; it includes his Democratic predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, both sharp political and strategic minds. And it must include his wife.
Jill Biden no doubt wants to salve her husband’s post-debate wounds, and may herself be in denial about how bad things are. But she does not seem like the kind of yes-honey spouse who contorts reality and herself to please her man. Unlike the last presidential family, the Bidens seem to have a marriage built on mutual respect and admiration; both seem to take each other’s counsel seriously.
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