While almost everyone around Biden thinks he will eventually clear things up, his indecisiveness has already led to an awkward position within the Democratic Party. A number of potential presidential candidates and dozens of major donors are mulling possible strategy and even quietly crafting a “plan B” while continuing to show respect and publicly express support for the current president.Politico believes that Governors of Illinois Jay Robert Pritzker, California Gavin Newsom and New Jersey Phil Murphy recently took steps that can be seen as the start of preparations for Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race. Senators such as Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar have also become more active.According to the publication, the US President’s trip to Kiev required careful planning and took up significant organizational resources of the presidential administration, which is why preparations for the upcoming elections were pushed into the background.Biden’s decision to walk out of the election would amount to a ‘political earthquake’ the Democratic Party hasn’t seen since Lyndon Johnson, who didn’t run for president in 1968 due to low popularity amid Vietnam War.Such a move would draw enormous attention to US Vice President Kamala Harris. At the same time, his low popularity raises reasonable doubts among his party mates about the chances of winning even the primaries, let alone the general election.Political technologist and election media specialist Mark Longabaugh, who worked on Bernie Sanders’ campaign in 2016, told Poitico that Biden’s silence was creating problems within the Democratic Party.“There would be a lot of negative talk among the Democratic elites, and I think that would force them to make a decision eventually,” Longabaugh said. “I just don’t think he can make it through the summer,” he added.According to the publication, Biden and most of his inner circle still insist that the current US president plans to run in the next election. The only thing that can prevent him from doing so is a serious deterioration in his health, experts say.
