Why 'There's A Giant Roadblock In The Form Of Kamala' In Biden Dropping Out Post-Debate: Lipson

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On "Forbes Newsroom," political scientist Charles Lipson spoke about the trust problem facing Democrats after the presidential debate.

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00:00Do you think the party now has a trust problem because I'm gonna read some headlines

00:04The New York the New York Post just said politico Biden is toast an op-ed in the New York Times

00:10Joe Biden is a good man and a good president

00:12He must bow out of the race and there has been this sense if you log on a social media if you turn on any

00:20Channel of the news of panic amongst Democrats. I talked to a lifelong Democratic voter last night and

00:26They were surprised at the debate. They said they were a Hillary voter

00:31They were a Biden voter and they said I can't vote for Trump, but in good conscience. I cannot vote for Joe Biden

00:40I'm going to be meeting with a group of senior Democrats in, Illinois

00:46So these are true blue people later today, and I expect to hear a lot of that

00:53and

00:55But they now face a real problem

00:58I think your quote from Gavin Newsom is very interesting. Newsom doesn't want to be one of the people surrounding

01:08Caesar and have and have Caesar say at to

01:14Gavin

01:15As he stabs him Gavin wants to be seen as somebody who is an heir apparent, but here's the problem

01:24The heir apparent is always the vice president and

01:29If the vice president were defeated in an open primary where voter Democratic voters had their say

01:38Then may and if that had happened months and months ago

01:42Then the party might be able to coalesce around a new nominee

01:47but if she if Biden is forced out and

01:51Everybody knows that Kamala can't win a general election

01:56They may be wrong. But I mean that's the general view she had she she bowed out of the 2020

02:04Primaries with zero support and she had lots of money and she came from a true blue

02:10Democratic state with a lot of voters. So the fact that she couldn't get any traction at all should tell you something

02:16but

02:17If they force her out

02:19They insult one of the key

02:22constituencies in the party

02:24Which is black voters and especially black women voters who they count on those voters won't vote for Trump

02:31But they won't come out to the polls at all. And this is a party that has played

02:37identity politics

02:39to the hilt

02:40For decades and now they're stuck with the results. So they've got a real problem

02:46Newsom is not a good answer because he's run, California into the ground and that takes something. That's a great state

02:53It should be just thriving but people when people move out of California to live in Nevada

02:59You know that there's a problem. So there the Democrats would potentially have some good candidates Gretchen Whitmer

03:07of Michigan

03:09Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania

03:12Jared Polis of Colorado

03:15But again

03:16There's this giant

03:19roadblock in the in the form of Kamala and in the form of timing and

03:25There are no party leaders who can just go to Joe Biden and say step out unless Joe himself

03:31Just sees that it's all collapsing around him

Why 'There's A Giant Roadblock In The Form Of Kamala' In Biden Dropping Out Post-Debate: Lipson

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