Democ­rats pitch ‘con­densed’ blitz pri­ma­ry to ditch Biden and hoist new leader

As the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty stares at a cross­roads con­cern­ing Joe Biden and its pres­i­den­tial tick­et, a pair of Democ­rats are propos­ing a unique solu­tion: a blitz pri­ma­ry to iden­ti­fy a new nom­i­nee.
Rosa Brooks, a pro­fes­sor at George­town Law, devised a strat­e­gy to cap­i­tal­ize on the party’s pre­car­i­ous sit­u­a­tion in the wake of Biden’s stum­bling debate per­for­mance. She said she wants her fel­low Democ­rats to know that “this cri­sis, like most crises, is also an oppor­tu­ni­ty.” Her work along­side Ted Din­ter­smith, a ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist and edu­ca­tion phil­an­thropist, has offered a solu­tion she thinks can unite the par­ty around a new pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee for the August Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion in Chica­go.

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris talks with Pres­i­dent Joe Biden as they view the Inde­pen­dence Day fire­work dis­play over the Nation­al Mall from the bal­cony of the White House, Thurs­day, July 4, 2024, in Wash­ing­ton. (AP Photo/Evan Vuc­ci)

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