In the lead-up to Thursday night’s debate, the conventional wisdom was that Biden had to convince everyone – party bosses and influential pundits especially – that he wasn’t too old and addled to be the Democrat nominee again.
Biden more than bombed, and there are essentially unanimous calls among Democrats for the party to replace him as the nominee. The undeniable star of the CNN spin room has been California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who’s in Atlanta as a Biden surrogate and who’s now looking mighty attractive to Democrats as a replacement. He’s young (ish), handsome (ish), has better poll numbers than Kamala Harris, and has national name recognition because of his constant trolling of Republican officeholders like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. He also has a superhuman ability to gaslight and completely misstate the truth.
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