Could they though?
I don't think any of us know what goes on among the king makers.
Who is to say, that when Pelosi, Obama, the Clintons and Schumer had decided it was time for Biden to go or he would doom all the down ballots, that they hadn't asked Newsome, Whitmer etc.
Maybe the smart politicians in the DNC told them no way in hell, not against Trump, and not with just a few months to make their case.
I just can't see those politicians leaving their current gig to spoil their political image (such that it is with folks in the middle,) with a truncated run for the ring of power.
. . . and Kamala? IMO, given her awful campaigning skills and her track record with the general public, had to know,k this was her only shot to be the nominee.
I'm just using my own best judgement of the situation.
I saw Biden in decline in 2020.
I honestly don't think the Democrat Establishment (heretofore labelled 'they') really wanted Biden in 2020. That's why he didn't get the nod in 2016.
But after Clinton lost catastrophically, they couldn't keep him out.
IMO, they want Kamala way back then...but Tulsi blew up her campaign in 90 seconds, and Joe won and they were stuck with him.
So they stashed Biden in a basement and kept him insulated from a at best compliant...at worst complicit...Legacy Media.
And lo and behold...he won...with a lot of help from COVID, ballot harvesting and the shadow campaign.
Now what?
If it is revealed that Biden is really in mental decline, just like Republicans said...then it looks like Democrats and the media were covering it up.
And Biden beat Trump once from the basement...he could do it again. IOW...if it ain't broke, don't risk trying to fix it. What seemed a cover up became an overt cover up.
Until it became obvious that the cat was out of the bag and worst of all Trump was trouncing Biden.
Had the Powers That Be come clean when it became apparent Biden wasn't competent to be the leader of the free world...then they could have had a vigorous nomination process.
But they couldn't do that either...cuz they don't trust their party to do "what's right".
They know better.
They install Clinton with superdelegates. Fuck Bernie.
The's the "wrong choice".
What if they nominated RFK???
He's the "wrong choice".
They know better...so they have to protect the Democrat voters from themselves.
The Republicans aren't any better...but Trump hacked their system. A New Yorker that connected with Southerners and Midwesterners.
But that's a whole nother rant.