Something to think about is that regardless of what happens, Biden has to stay president for the next 365 days, any advantage to 25thing him only kicks in a year from now. Which means Dems have to suffer through the midterms even if kamala is their girl. The biggest problem after that is Kamala isn't much better than Biden and doesn't have a lot of built up good will from being a public figure for 40+ years. Quite the opposite, even comedy central shows are tearing her to shreds. Beyond that, as every poll has shown Biden is still their best option come 2024, they're still fucked. And talks of primarying Biden must be increasing every day, even if they can keep Bernie down, they won't be able to stop any chapos or Contra or any other E-Celeb from trying it. the amount of signatures needed is absurdly high for most but its still only 5-10k signatures in a state, if you have a reach of tens of millions of people getting 500k signatures isn't going to be much of a challenge, as mike Gravel has shown us.
Which leads us to the DNC, they determine primary requirements, depending on how they establish them will determine how they plan on addressing the kamala problem. I don't know what they will do, but they'll have to announce their rules soon. And that means being forced to stay the course or abandon ship for 2024, people will mock them, but i'd be a bit more cautious, they usually never had to worry because most dems would accept an appointed successor, but they were successfully able to destroy Bernie's 2020 chances way back in 2017 by setting up a primary calendar that would fuck him, not that they needed it. but they did make sure to cut momentum and make sure he'd never be able to overcome media stories about his losses in minority areas throughout the campaign. If they genuinely need to, they could set up a favorable schedule for Biden again or the exact opposite. depending on how shit goes this year they could very well clean house. do for Kamala what the RNC didn't have the balls to do to Ford. chuck biden, force kamala to compete in a primary and let her lose then 2024 anoint someone that has a fighting chance. irregardless of what happens with the RNC, unless an old overweight unhealthy man dies of natural causes they're fucked.
Russia pulling another move taking a chunk of ukraine will fuck the US's standing as a competent power, that leads to other powers getting a bit more antsy. international relations aren't doing better than they were in 2002, and depending on russia's actions they might end up doing worse than in 2015.
That must be the most worrying thing for the Dems, all the problems the US had when Biden became president have either gotten worse or had new ones take their place. Even COVID isn't going to end in time for elections if their actions are anything to go by. 292 days to solve the supply chain, heal relations worldwide, stop inflation, and deal with covid.
The biggest problem seems to be that even if their operatives are doing their best with something as simple as ending COVID restrictions, the constituents aren't having it Chicago schools won't listen to the mayor, and i have a feeling going in with the national guard isn't an option. Every attempt to end the COVID arc is being met harshly by their own people and more information is leaking out everywhere about what really happened. if shit doesn't get better soon people will start wondering who the sacrificial lambs are.
every NPC is furious at every deescalation over at the CDC, and at some point the leakers will start to arise.