One of many reasons this scenario made little sense is that should something happen to convince the president to abruptly end his reelection campaign, he's already chosen a stand-in who is very close by: his vice-president, Kamala Harris.
Seventy-four percent think she'd make a good president. By a 59 percent to 31 percent margin, they think she could win a 2024 general election. She's stronger than Biden among the Black and Latino voters that have been stressing Democrats in recent years.
In terms of early 2028 preferences among Democrats, she's far ahead of the competition (Harris is at 41 percent; Pete Buttigieg is at 15 percent; Newsom is at 14 percent; Whitmer is at 5 percent). Harris is already the principal voice of her administration and her party on the GOP threat to abortion rights.
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