With less than two weeks to go until the 2024 presidential election, the match-up between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris would have seemed like fantasy – or a blatant conspiracy theory – to much of the mainstream media because Joe Biden just had to run and there was no way he could be replaced.
NBC News made that point almost exactly a year ago, on Oct. 26, 2023, when it noted how Biden was securely in place for his reelection campaign. After all, he “announced in April that he is running for re-election. His campaign and its fundraising entities have a combined $91 million in the bank, and he has hired key political staffers to help helm his 2024 re-election campaign,” and of course, “[h]e has no serious opposition that threatens to kick him off his party's ballot.”
Ironically, the “unfounded conversation” that NBC noted was occurring “on the political right” in 2023 was the incredible theory that “Democratic power brokers will intervene at the last minute to replace a weakened 80-year-old Biden with someone else as the party’s nominee,” which is, of course, precisely what happened to Biden when former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped up and pushed the president out of the race.
