To say that we are swimming in uncharted waters is an understatement. The decision by President Joe Biden to withdraw less than four months before the election and a month away from the Democrats’ nominating convention is unlike anything we’ve seen in the modern age. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “late” decision to drop his reelection bid took place in March 1968.

By late last week, it was clear that Biden’s candidacy was untenable. More than 30 congressional Democrats had officially called on him to leave the race. Polls taken right before the Republican National Convention showed Biden trailing former President Donald Trump in all of the battleground states and even struggling against him in blue strongholds like New Mexico and Virginia.

A new Democratic candidate gives the party an opportunity to reset and refocus on Trump. But Trump enters late July with the upper hand in this contest and a clearer path to 270 Electoral College votes. A Kamala Harris candidacy brings with it all the unpopular things about the Biden administration (inflation and immigration, for example), but does leave

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