It was as soon as a fringe opinion to say President Biden ought to drop his re-election bid and Democrats ought to embrace an open conference. That place is fringe no extra. However when the traditional knowledge shifts this quickly, there’s at all times the hazard of overlooking its potential flaws.
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My colleague, the Instances Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, has been making a number of the strongest arguments in opposition to Biden dropping out and throwing the nomination contest to a brokered conference. So I invited him on the present to speak by the place he and I diverge and the way our pondering is altering.
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