This Post Was Written The Day President Biden Dropped Out Of The Presidential Race

I was going through my blog post drafts and saw this one that I wrote the day that President Biden dropped out of the Presidential race. No one knew at that point what would happen. Would there be n open convention? A mini primary? Would theDemocrats rally around Vice President Kamala Harris? No One really knew. I am posting this unedited. The last two paragraphs are what I thought might happen, although, the extent to which Kamala Harris has enthused the Democratic Party to an extent that nobody saw coming.

It's interesting to look back on a historical event of this magnitude and compare to how it is playing out.

I remember as a kid, I was eleven years old watching the Democratic National Convention. We always watched the convention as a family. Back then we only had five channels and three of them, the network affiliates all broadcast the Convention. 

Turbulent is how I would describe 1968. Mired by the Viet Nam War, President Johnson decided not to seek a second term as President of the united States. This opened up the field to various candidates to run. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota had just almost won the New Hampshire Primary. Robert F. Kennedy decided to jump into in the primary race. I remember that my Father was a Eugene McCarthy supporter. Both Candidates were Anti-War candidates.

RFK had just clinched the nomination with a win in California when he was assassinated by a Palestinian terrorist Sirhan Sirhan. This was less than 60 days before theDemocratic National Convention. Since there was no nominee for the democrats, the Party threw open the convention to the delegates to decide. Hubert Humphrey, who did not run in any primaries, was named the nominee for the democrats. The Party was then in turmoil having an untested candidate.

Fast forward to today and we have a similar situation. President Joe Biden has decided not to seek another term. But today is much different politically than in 1968. The Democrats are pretty united in the Biden/Harris agenda of the last three years. A lot has been accomplished:

• Lowering Costs of Families' Everyday Expenses.

• More People Are Working Than At Any Point in American History.

• Making More in America.

• Rescued the Economy and Changed the Course of the Pandemic.

• Rebuilding our Infrastructure.

• Historic Expansion of Benefits and Services for Toxic Exposed Veterans

  
  

The President has endorsed Vice President, Kamala Harris. She has said she will spend the time to earn the nomination. Some major Democrats have already come out to support her and many others are waiting a day or two out of respect for President Biden’s decision not to run.

If elected, Kamala Harris will be the first Woman President in our history. I think that she will unite the base and earn the respect of moderate Republican Women and Independents and beat Donal Trump in November.

For the MAGA GOP to run against a Black Woman may prove to be more than they bargained for. At the core of MAGA is racism and Misogyny which puts off a lot of moderate Republicans..