Joe Biden bowed out of the race for his party’s nomination today promising in a prepared statement to “speak to the Nation later this week in more detail about my decision.”
If Biden had left it at that, chaos would have reigned. He left no instruction to the delegates he amassed in what was, for the most part, an uncontested primary. He thanked his vice president, Kamala Harris, “for being an extraordinary partner in all this work,” but he neither endorsed her presumed candidacy to replace him nor did he sanction any of the various processes some have toyed with that would be designed to produce a suitable, consensus replacement. No one knows what the president currently thinks about how this unprecedented condition should resolve itself. Into that void, an untold number of freelancers will rush in the effort to popularize their vision of how the party should move forward.
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