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It's time to ask: What will happen if Biden pulls out?
Trump will still win because the new Democratic candidate — be it Gavin Newsom or even Michele Obama or Hillary Clinton — will have to move so far to the left to win the Democratic nomination that they will marginalize themselves in the general election.
Any new Democratic entrant will have to pass a litmus test to secure the nomination that will make them anathema in the general.
He or she will have to:
Embracing even two or three of these positions will make the candidate unelectable in November, but failing to toe the line will doom him or her to defeat in the Democratic primary.
Even if Michele Obama were to run, she would find it impossible to avoid this conundrum.
It is a lot harder for an African-American Democrat to win now than it was in 2008 or 2012. The Party has moved so far to the left on race and gender issues that the gulf between the opinions of Democratic primary voters and general election swing voters has widened so far that it cannot be bridged.
These issue challenges for would-be Biden replacements do not even reach the core issues of explain ing away Biden's economic policies or his inflation and border enforcement.
Indeed, most polls report that Democratic primary voters are a lot less likely to cite the economy, inflation, immigration, or crime as major issues facing America when the pollsters do not suggest these responses.
Rather Democratic primary voters are more likely to cite climate change, abortion, race relations, and gun violence as the key issues.
Appealing to Democratic primary voters at the same time as generating general election support from swing voters is an acrobatic exercise well beyond the capacity of any likely Democratic replacement for Biden.
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Dick Morris, who served as adviser to former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and former President Clinton, is the author of 16 books, including his latest, Screwed and Here Come the Black Helicopters.
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