Elite Democrats will reject the president, and Republicans must be prepared
President Biden will not be on the November ballot. With each new Biden family revelation and new poll finding Donald Trump will beat Mr. Biden like a drum, the inevitability of Mr. Biden stepping aside grows.
Yet Mr. Biden will not step aside before the end of the Democratic primary season. Instead, without real opposition, Mr. Biden will be poised to accept his coronation at the Democratic National Convention in August in Chicago.
Democratic strategists now plotting the Biden coup see this uncontested primary season as an essential element of a winning November strategy. As Richard Nixon once advised, run to the right to win the Republican nomination but run back to the middle to win the general election.
In this case, by avoiding a hotly contested Democratic primary cycle with numerous candidates trying to out-“woke” one another, the eventual ticket that runs in November will not be burdened with extreme positions in a primary campaign anathema to the American center.
How will Mr. Biden will be persuaded — or forced — to step down in favor of a brokered backroom deal Democratic convention? Mr. Biden wants a grand legacy of his White House days and full pardons to keep him and his family out of prison.
On the legacy front, Democratic strategists will confront Mr. Biden with the reality that if he gets trounced in the general election by Mr. Trump — as polls say he will surely win — Mr. Biden’s place in history will be beside Jimmy Carter as the most hapless president of the modern era.
If Mr. Biden still resists this pressure, key leaders within his party and the legacy media will take Mr. Biden down and thereby clear the path for a fresh ticket. They fear a new Trump presidency as surely as Brutus put the knife to Caesar.
On the pardon front, Mr. Biden will wait until after the November election and before he resigns to pardon not just the prodigal son Hunter but also his brother James, who is generally regarded as the consigliere in the Biden crime family. As for Mr. Biden’s pardon, he will quietly step down before Inauguration Day and let Kamala Harris do the dirty deed as part of the deal.
