On Thursday night, after the first presidential debate, MSNBC's Alex Wagner interviewed Gov. Gavin Newsom of California. You were out there getting a chorus of questions about whether Biden should step down, she said. There is a panic that has set in. Newsom's reply was dismissive. We gotta have the back of this president, he said. You don't turn your back because of one performance. What kind of party does that? Perhaps a party that wants to win?
Biden's presidency is proof of the Democratic Party's ability to act strategically. He didn't win the Democratic nomination in 2020 because he set the hearts of party activists aflame. Support for him always lacked the passion of support for Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren or even Andrew Yang. Biden won because the party made a cold decision to unite around the candidate it thought was best suited to beating Donald Trump. Biden won because Democrats did what they had to do, not what they wanted to do.
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