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It's not about convincing someone else to run, someone needed to convince Biden NOT to run.
It's super simple... A sitting President is the de facto leader of their party. The only person who can make the decision if they should be the candidate or not is that very person themselves.
See Johnson in 1968. He could have been the first 2+ term President since Roosevelt having served the rest of Kennedy's term + his own term, but chose to bow out instead. In the end that was his call to make and nobody elses.
Isn't it way too late for that? I mean there have already been primaries. That's sort of my point.
Hence the past tense. :) But technically, nothing is final until the conventions in July and August, and nobody OFFICIALLY has enough delegates to be the candidate yet.
Fair. Most people here don't seem to understand that the time for him to step down has most likely already passed and are still talking about how someone else could run against him (without usually naming who) and complaining that no one has when, as I said earlier, they did not do the work to even try to get someone else in there.
And people really didn't like it when I suggested that maybe Bernie doing it twice despite the DNC being against him and knowing he didn't have much of a chance was because he thought that trying before complaining that no one tried was the thing to do.
I love Bernie, but even if the DNC decided to not fuck with him, his time ended when he had the heart attack and the stent, and I say that as someone who literally just had a heart attack and a stent a month ago. Survival is debilitating. :( OTOH, it IS surviving...