American Family Radio's Jenna Ellis points out that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) recently modified its rules to allow for the replacement of a presidential nominee. And with the primary season two months away, many within the party want Biden, who just turned 81 years old and continues to suffer from deteriorating health, to step aside.
"A lot of people are suggesting that the Democrats are running out of time to actually have a true contest, but the DNC rules that were modified while Joe Biden was in the White House say that even after he is the nominee, they could replace him," she explains. "The DNC can unilaterally choose the replacement, and that's where I see this headed if Joe Biden does not himself willingly just step off the ticket."
Looking forward to this week's debate between Governors Newsom (D-California) and DeSantis (R-Florida), Ellis believes the Democrats already have a replacement in mind.
"Just looking at the playing field, I think that Gavin Newsom is kind of running a shadow campaign and waiting in the wings," she suggests.
Ellis dismisses the idea that the vice president can be a viable candidate.
"She has utterly flopped in her role," she says of Kamala Harris. "They tried to prop her up as woman/diversity; she checked all the boxes on paper, but then can't even speak coherent sentences and giggles and cackles her way through the vice presidency."
As for the Republican ticket, author and veteran political consultant Dick Morris's confidence remains in Donald Trump.
At 77 years old, Trump is not much younger than Biden, but his physician recently declared him to be in "excellent" physical and mental health.
Meanwhile, polls continue to show the former president beating all of the other Republican candidates. In fact, Real Clear Politics shows him leading Gov. Ron DeSantis by almost 45 points, and even NBC polls show him ahead of Biden.
"I think that the more they prosecute Trump, the better he gets," Morris submits. "I think that his political strength is reinforced by the fact that he's being persecuted and prosecuted by the deep state, and it gives him credibility as the outsider that he really is."
And as Trump continues to fare much better with minority voters, Morris expects the former president to gain momentum.
"In 2020, Donald Trump got 12% of the black vote, and now he's getting 27%. In 2020, he got 26% of the Latino vote; now he's getting 39%," Morris reports. "In 2020, he lost the votes of those under 25 by 10 points, and now he's winning them by 12."
This turnaround, he concludes, confirms that his prediction about Trump's return to the White House "is coming completely true."
