Biden will be the democratic nominee for one reason only: because it is tradition not to run against a sitting president and Biden has selfishly chosen to run.
Isn't that two reasons? Just kidding.
You're right that if Biden wants the nomination, it's his for the asking, but I don't agree with the selfishness aspect. Are you using that word because you think Biden should step down because of his age, his competence, or both? I consider him to have been an extremely effective president, especially in his first two years when he had both houses of Congress and made New Deal magnitude changes while overseeing a successful pandemic response that saved lives, jobs, and businesses.
If it's an age issue, is it dementia or death in office that concerns you? The man is sharp as a tack, and dying in office isn't selfish to me if he chooses a good vice-presidential candidate. Harris satisfies that criterion for me. She's already had four years on-the-job training by a gifted politician and good soul with a strong moral compass - big shoes to fill and a bar to rise to. Recently, he called McConnel his friend and said he seemed his old self on the phone. He's also held his hand out to Florida and DeSantis, which is his job, but I don't see DeSantis doing the same if the roles were reversed and he were president while Biden was governor of a blue state in disaster emergency mode.
Biden is presidential, and that matters after Trump, who presented the opposite example to the nation's detriment.
I don't see the Democrats doing better than those two. Equal, perhaps, but not better.
I would say that Ruth Bader Ginsberg was selfish for holding onto her seat indefinitely, since her death on the Court came during Trump's years, and she was replaced by an ideological opposite.
I know many conservative Christians (men and women, MAGAs) who would be upset if Harris or any other woman were elected president. Many of the ones I know were quite upset when she became the first female vice president. It was like the end of the world for them when Obama was elected twice.
That's to be expected. You probably agree that it's the price one pays who clings to the white American dream while his world around him evolves culturally past him. The fear is palpable. The savages will overrun white Christian civilization! "You will not replace us!"
One of my dad's friends was talking about the 2020 election (before the election as it was August) and said that if Democrats win "one of them will be in the White House". I didn't ask what he meant, but the guy's wife was there too, so I am guessing race. I had just met this guy and he did not hold back at all in saying this in front of a stranger, the son of a friend of his.
Another one who's unhappy about the left's egalitarianism, or as they call it, wokeness. This guy might not be fearful. He might just be a
the world's going to hell-in-a-basket conservative. But whether disgusted, afraid, or whatever the objection is, it's their price to pay for being inflexibly and uncharitably ethnocentric in a changing world.