Can Biden beat Trump?

[septimus]

I liked ALL the candidates on the Democratic stage but I was enthusiastic about only ONE: Elizabeth Warren. And I’m afraid that each of the candidates had severe electability problems. Biden was mediocre in his prime, and now is just plain too old. I settled on Biden because each of the others seemed even less electable than him.

I wish that D opinion-makers had gotten behind one of the middle-aged moderates, perhaps Inslee. (But Inslee didn’t make it easy for us, obsessed as he was with a single issue.)

In 2016 I was begging the DNC to replace Hillary (with Biden :p) and Dopers were suggesting I go back to 7th grade and take Civics again. But I’m doing the same thing now, 4 years later! :

If we had a good champion waiting in the bullpen, Biden should stand aside. The problem is: We don’t have a champion. (The R’s are lacking also; the only one on the 2016 stage who seemed Presidential was the right-winger Kasich. What the Hell has happened to America? There isn’t a single Senator on either side with the integrity and charisma of John McCain — and that’s not an over-high bar to hurdle.)
I saw this in a thread about Biden’s VP choice:

@Lamoral

… Two, and more importantly: he failed to take into account the fact that the tide of current events in the months leading up to the election could potentially shape a stellar VP choice who would then be locked out because it might be a man. Let’s say that in the next few months, one of the state governors does an absolutely amazing job of rising to the occasion, truly distinguishing that state’s mitigation efforts above all the others. Let’s say just hypothetically that Jay Inslee, for instance, in the course of governorship during this pandemic, comes up with some kind of amazingly creative and effective plan that leads to a situation when, after the initial dust has settled in a few months, the whole country is looking at Washington State and saying, “wow, they did something right - their response to the virus was head and shoulders above the rest of the country.”

Imagine this is a poker game. It’s Hold 'em. Biden has his cards. The coronavirus is the flop. The mitigation efforts are the turn. The resolution is the river. But wait, none of that matters because Biden folded as soon as he got his cards.

Time is running out, but if a real champion does emerge (Inslee or whoever), do NOT make him the VP candidate. Biden should stand aside and let the Champion run for the Big Job.