Check out Heather Cox Richardson’s February 20 podcast.  Yesterday on the topic of some people making an argument about a challenger to President Joe Biden she had this to say:

“Just speaking as a political historian one of the things that frustrates me to no end when I hear that is the people making those arguments clearly know nothing about political history because the last thing one does in a party that has an incumbent is to challenge that incumbent.”

“..the truth is the Democrats are thrilled to be behind Biden. He’s had an extraordinarily successful presidency. So first of all they wouldn’t do that but stop even going that far. If you think about where we are in politics right now the Republican party is in the middle of a civil war. And literally the Trump people are physically threatening those who are not on the Trump team, those that are trying to regain control of the Republican party or trying to undercut the Trump side – it is a complete mess on the Republican side. So the idea that the Democrats would want to do that – there’s an old adage in politics that says that whenever your opponents are beating themselves up just stand back. So the idea that the Democrats would also want to jump into a civil war is just bonkers from anybody that studies politics.

The other thing that nobody is really talking about is…by definition the reason that the Republicans are going after Biden’s age is because they have nothing else. They have looked for years now to try to come up with a scandal and at this point even they are admitting they don’t think they will vote to impeach because there is no there there. The chief witness turns out now to be under indictment for lying and having made that up. Their stories keep falling apart so what they have on Biden is age, which is undeniable, he’s an older man… I have talked to him at length in close proximity… he’s fine, he’s smart, he knows a lot, he knows how things operate.. and one of the things that people who are really good at politics do is they see the story that’s not there.. and that’s actually hard to do – and he’s always on that every time, always looking at the whole picture.

Anyone who would try to replace him would by definition – have skeletons in their closet because they have not been vetted by 50 years in public office. So anyone who thinks someone who steps into Biden’s place would be this great miracle worker are those who wish the Democrats ill or are just bored. Democrats are boring because they are just getting the job done.”

Watch the rest of the podcast here.