With the pace of presidential politics being somewhere around the speed of light, it’s easy to forget we are only two months removed from an unprecedented soft coup of the incumbent president. Following his disastrous debate performance in late June, Joe Biden faced an onslaught of pressure from Democratic Party elites and the press to step aside. While he stood firm for a time, a weekend visit from Chuck Schumer and an ominous threat from Nancy Pelosi made the difference.
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The rest is history. Kamala Harris was immediately showered with donor cash and without doing a single interview or holding a single press conference, the vice president was officially crowned the Democrat nominee in mid-August. That’s always been a bit of a vulnerability for a party that continually proclaims everyone who disagrees with them a “threat to…
