Biden is hardly a shoo-in. There are serious concerns and questions about his ability to run and win. If he does win, it is almost universally acknowledged that he will be unlikely to finish his term. Many powerful dems don’t want him to run.
Kennedy is too controversial.
Pritzker is just another dem billionaire who is soft on crime.
Harris is fighting her inability to get anything done on the border, as well as her past as Cali AG, during which she jailed record numbers of minorities.
In short, the DNC has no real consensus candidate.
No, I think the likely candidate will be a draftee, Gretchen Whitmer. Despite her assertions that she has no presidential ambitions, I believe the DNC will convince her to run against Trump. She checks off all the DNC boxes, especially the recent run of gun control bills. She will be credited with turning Michigan blue, signing in a number of liberal agenda laws. She is the DNC’s anti-Trump. I believe the DNC will give her a few more months to really establish her bona fides, then they will prevail on her, “for the good of the party” and as the person Trump labeled, “that woman from Michigan”, to throw her hat into the ring. At this moment, Whitmer is the closest the DNC has to a consensus candidate.
Heaven help us all; having her as governor has been bad enough.
