Joe Klein: “The Republican Convention will provide the Democrats an opportunity to proceed quietly with the task at hand: Convincing Joe Biden to stand down. From what I’m hearing, the process has gone subterranean but is increasing in its intensity.”
“There is a sense that Democrats want this to be a surgical procedure—Biden gone, Kamala installed, no blitz primary. They will, after the quasi-martyrdom and the GOP convention, need something, to bring them back to life. If the Dems had a Trumpian sense of drama, Biden would choose the night of Agent Orange’s convention speech to announce his withdrawal from the race…”
“The presidential campaign languished in a vast, unusual stasis for the past year. That is highly irregular in American politics. And now, with the debate and the shooting, the curtain rises on the ultimate drama. The next weeks will be amazing, perhaps horrible, perhaps Biblical.”
