Joe Biden Is Reportedly ‘More Receptive’ To Stepping Down, So Who Would Be The Replacement Black People Deserve?

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Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Travels To Pennsylvania On Election Day

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We have to be real about one thing: The Biden campaign is looking more doomed by the day. Since his far-less-than-stellar debate performance against Donald Trump last month, Trump has been maintaining the cult-like loyalty and excitement of his MAGA constituents, who are more emboldened than ever now that their great orangey-white nationalist hope has been convicted of 34 felonies and shot at on the campaign trail. Being a pathological liar, a demonstrable bigot and a whole criminal does nothing to dissuade his equally ignorant, delusional and bigoted followers from worshiping him.

Meanwhile, more and more people on the Democratic side of the aisle are counting Biden out mostly due to his age and how not-so-spry he appears virtually whenever there’s a camera in his face. In fact, a new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows nearly two-thirds of Democrats want Biden to step aside and let the party choose a different nominee while 70 percent of Americans, including nearly half of Democrats, said they were not confident that he had the mental capacity to be president—and now, Biden has contracted COVID.

It was revealed Wednesday that the president tested positive for COVID-19 and in possibly related news, the New York Times reported that Democrats briefed on discussions Biden has had with members of his administration have reported that the President is “more receptive” and at least “willing to listen” to arguments regarding the possibility of him stepping down, although, he still has defiantly maintained that he is the Democratic nominee and he isn’t going anywhere.

Vice President Kamala Harris addresses 2022 NAACP Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on July 18, 2022

Source: Kamala Harris/Facebook / Kamala Harris/Facebook

So, this late in the game, it is still unlikely that Biden is going to step down, but what if he does? Who in the Democratic party could replace him as the nominee? Trump and other MAGAts who don’t actually know things have assumed that if he did step down, the torch would automatically be passed to Vice President Kamala Harris, but those of us who do know things know that isn’t how the VP role works, and if the incumbent president declines to seek reelection, as eight other past presidents have done, the party simply chooses a new nominee that may or may not be the president’s VP.

Actually, here’s a better question: If Biden decided to step aside, who would be the presidential nominee that Black people deserve?

The first person who comes to my mind is former First Lady Michelle Obama.

Now, Michelle has already said over and over and over the hell again that she has no interest in running for president in 2024 or ever, but that hasn’t stopped Republican politicians and pundits from expressing their paranoia that she is going to replace Biden as the Democratic nominee. In February, former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich had a whole discussion with Fox News host Sean Hannity about how Obama is too “racially intense” to run a successful presidential campaign and that the Obamas would have to explain why they’re so rich while trying to appeal to the common man as if the rust-colored Bible and golden shoe salesmen who is supposedly a billionaire is any more in tune with the common folk.

I'll bet he's never even had a conversation w/her. Probably were never in the same room. Why are Rs so effin' racist? https://t.co/ovaBvUTYxw

— ScruffyR (MAGAts BLOCKED) (@ScruffyRoses) February 27, 2024

Before Gingrich, former Fox News host Megyn Kelly sat down with Newsmax’s Eric Bolling so the two could construct an entire imaginary world where Obama was running for president, exciting Democrats who think she’s their “savior,” and pissing off Republican voters by playing the race card, all while secretly running the Biden administration from behind the scenes.

Megyn Kelly: "There are a lot of people who think the Obamas are already running the government and that there is some sort of shadow puppet situation going on that they're controlling."

She then tells Michelle Obama conservatives hate her because "you don't like America." pic.twitter.com/8faOLTVVgy

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 6, 2023

Kelly also speculated that Michelle would play the imaginary “race card” during her imaginary run for president, and said, “This woman has no faith in the goodness of Americans, at least not if they have the little ‘R’ after their name as opposed to the little ‘D.’” Here’s what I wrote about that previously:

Just about every single prominent Republican politician and pundit, including Kelly herself, has expressed negative views of Democrats, “leftists,” immigrants, Black Lives Matter advocates (and/or Black lives in general), Muslims, the LGBTQ community, feminists, critical race theorists, pro-choice advocates, and, of course, the ubiquitous “woke.”

These are also Americans that hard-right conservatives have “no faith in the goodness of.” Is Kelly ready to acknowledge that neither she nor the rest of her ideological ilk honestly like America either? Is she essentially saying that no one really likes America?

That being said, Gingrich and Kelly aren’t necessarily wrong about America not likely being ready for a staunchly pro-Black president, but since white-tearsy Republicans are, apparently, so afraid of a Michelle Obama presidential run, it would, at the very least, be fun to watch them squirm.

Anyway, what about Hilary Clinton?

I meeeaan, I wouldn’t expect Black people to be any more excited about another Clinton run than they are about Biden, but it would be somewhat satisfying to watch Republicans scramble to find something else to attack her with besides “but…but…her emails,” which would be an absurd narrative considering their MAGA messiah was indicted after multiple truck loads of classified documents were removed from his Mar-a-Lago resort by the FBI.

But, nah, Clinton wouldn’t work. So, who else? What about Bernie Sanders? Sure, Sanders is a year older than Biden, so we might run into similar issues, but the 82-year-old also had a loyal, almost cult-ish following himself not long ago, so… You know what? Nah. Let’s get out of the bin of decrepit white people who are, in all honestly, too centrist to bust a revolutionary grape in a fruit fight.

Sen. Warnock Campaigns In Georgia On Eve Of Election

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What about Sen. Raphael Warnock? After all, Biden wasn’t the only elected official to turn Georgia blue-ish in 2020. Warnock managed to unseat the Republican incumbent, Kelly Loeffler, a woman who is so staunchly conservative and Karen-esque that she couldn’t keep Klan members from showing up at her campaign events. She should have been a shoo-in in Georgia, but not only did Warnock beat her, but he defended his seat against the GOP’s great Black dope—I mean, hope—Herschel Walker, who has scarcely been heard from since.

Stacey Abrams on Meet the Press 4/26/2020

Stacey Abrams on “Meet The Press”Source: NBC News / Meet The Press

Hell, while we’re on the subject, what about the person who led the grassroots effort to bring political change to the Peach State, Stacey Abrams? Like Warnock, Abrams is a Black person who is truly of and for the Black community. Sure, if she were to get the nomination, racist white conservatives would call her a “DEI hire,” just as they have Harris, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and every other prominent Black woman in politics—but, again, no president would be better for Black America than the kind of pro-Black president America really isn’t ready for. (There’s a reason Barack Obama spent eight years mostly downplaying his pro-Blackness to appease a populace that was already calling him a radical Muslim socialist immigrant who couldn’t legally be president because, well, he’s a brown person with a foreign-sounding name.)

And that’s the conundrum. The American government simply isn’t set up for us.

But maybe one day…

See More:

Cornel West: Biden Is ‘Running Out Of Gas’ And Might Stop Running For Reelection

NAACP Releases Its ‘Black Policy Agenda’ For Biden To Still Fulfill

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