There is one certainty in 2024’s tumultuous campaign: If President Biden goes, Harris stays.
Democrats simply cannot replace Biden with anyone but Harris. Their base is so narrowed and their sense of identity-group politics so heightened that they cannot afford to fracture the former by ignoring the latter.
Add to this the reality that time is too short and the process too messy for changing their nominee now. It means that Biden stays, and Harris is the insurance policy that he does.
In a rematch that only Biden and Donald Trump seem to want, chaos prevails. Even with their nominations assured, both are still plagued by meaningless opposition.
In last Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary,…
