Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the US presidential race on Sunday ended a weeks-long agonising struggle by Democrats to convince him to take one for the team after his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump on 27 June.
Those who had worked to see him gone are now showering Biden with praise for what all Democrats agree has been a transformative Presidency.
The biggest source of contention within the party was over the fate of Harris if Biden stepped down. Those most supportive of Biden, such as Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and the Congressional Black Caucus, suspected wealthy donors were not just trying to dump a progressive president but to bypass the black woman who was next in line.
Being tough on crime is now seen as an asset and her debate skills might convince Trump not to show up for the second presidential debate in September. All week long, Trump sat like a plump Caesar occasionally nodding off as he watched with amusement at the circus in the convention hall as the once great GOP, the party of Abraham Lincoln, prostrated itself before the rapper Kid Rock and the former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan screaming about Trumpamania.
Trump picked the shape-shifting 39-year-old J D Vance to represent the new generation of Maga. Not to be underestimated, Vance brings much greater intellectual heft, and he seems to be an effective messenger of the new economic populism that the Republicans are rolling out to expand their base. “It’s a bitcoin play,” he says. “Not because Trump is a far stronger proponent of crypto. It makes it easier to operate a crypto business because of the changes that Trump will make at the Securities and Exchange Commission.”
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