On "Forbes Newsroom," HarrisX CEO Dritan Nesho said that President Biden must focus on "practical problem-solving" and middle-ground issues to win swing voters should he stay in the presidential race.
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00:00What do you think the solution is here for Democrats because it seems like they are at a crossroads. Do we continue full force with President Biden because according to your numbers as of now that's the best option that they have from all those other names being floated or do they change course. Does it seem like most voters want them to stay the course.
00:21Well I think that most Democrats Democratic voters would stay the course. And if that happens then President Biden and the Democratic campaign has to start focusing on middle ground solutions to the issues that matter to the electorate.
00:45Solutions around inflation solutions around immigration and the border and they have to pivot towards the center. They have to focus on swing voters rather than the base because they've already tapped the base to the extent that they can.
01:02And actually winning the voters in the middle is much more valuable than turning up more base voters. The math of swing voters works such that if you switch one voter from one camp to another it's a net effect of two. It's minus one on one side of the equation plus one on the other side of the equation.
01:20And in order to make up for losing a swing voter you have to turn out two base voters. And so I think that if they stay the course the solution is focus on practical problem solving focus on the needs of the middle the common sense middle.
01:39If they do switch the candidate then it's a it's a function of can they stand up a new candidate and tell their story to be competitive with with Trump.
01:50Now some of the possible replacements they're not far off in terms of their performance. Right. If you put a Pete Buttigieg or a Gretchen Widener or even Gavin Newsom against Trump maybe they're losing by eight to 10 points in the horse race.
02:09But again their name I.D. their recognition is lower. And in practice you would expect that gap to shrink especially if the candidate is well introduced and the candidate is kidding on the issues and the topics that the electorate wants them to hit.
02:25So I think that President Biden I don't think that he will be pushed aside or he can be pushed aside. The decision is his. But this weekend in Camp David these this is the kind of conversations that they'll be having and the kind of calculations they'd be having.
02:42It's an unclear path either way. Right. And it's an uncertain path either way for the Democrats.