In the nearly 250-year history of this country, we’ve never faced a leadership quandary quite like this one, where the sitting president, who’s also his party’s presumptive nominee for re-election, may prove to be too infirm to proceed.
And so we may be about to find out what that odd term, presumptive, actually means.
The number of voices from the liberal side imploring Joe Biden to step aside is growing larger and louder, but so far there is no indication he is listening.
My assumption is that Biden and his inner circle will wait until the post-debate polls come in, and the opinions of their major donors are known, to make a decision.
For the 81-year-old president, this has to be an agonizing moment. He has served in public office his entire career, survived endless political challenges, and led the country as its oldest chief executive ever, only to confront the proposition that the best thing he could do now would be to ride off into the sunset.
Among the news clips below are articles explaining how the process would work should Biden step aside, but nobody really knows what would happen, because we have entered uncharted waters.
The vast sea of the non-presumptive nominee.
HEADLINES:
Behind the Curtain: Biden oligarchy will decide fate (Axios)
The Reckoning of Joe Biden (New Yorker)
To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race (NYT)
Biden Gets Up After His Debate Meltdown (New Yorker)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial board calls for Biden to drop out 'for the good of the nation' (Fox)
Fearful and Doubting Biden, Democrats Face an Uncertain Path Forward (NYT)
How replacing Biden as Democratic nominee would actually work (The Hill)
The justices just shackled Biden and every future president — and created new messes for Congress to solve (Politico)
The Supreme Court is expected to rule Monday on Trump’s claim of immunity from criminal prosecution for trying to undo his 2020 election loss. (Reuters)
Race was once factored into college admissions. Now, it’s factored out. (WP)
A Den of Spies: Vienna Emerges as Hub for Russian Espionage (WSJ)
U.S. Presses to Avert Wider War Between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon (NYT)
In France’s rebranded far right, flashes of antisemitism and racism persist (WP)
France’s election stokes far-right-linked violence (Reuters)
The Supreme Court just downgraded ‘the insurrection’ to trespassing (The Hill)
Tropical Storm Beryl could strengthen into the season’s first hurricane (WP)
AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’ (Guardian)
MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI (TechCrunch)
The Voices of A.I. Are Telling Us a Lot (NYT)
Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web (Verge)
Bizarre Airbnb Looks Like Someone Actually Lives There (The Onion)
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