Wow, I guess the talk at the top of the party was serious. Guessing they'll circle the wagons around a Harris/Buttigieg ticket so they can still spin the "most successful administration of our lifetimes" narrative- they have to know that if they let an outsider like Whitmer take the nomination, it would look like a repudiation of the whole administration.
The whole administration is unpopular. Repudiating it, or at least distancing from it a bit, would be ideal. Running as the change ticket when you’re the incumbent party. Just crazy enough to work.
It worked for Buchanan in 1856, but it rather helped that he had defeated the incumbent in the primary.
Literally the only time the in-party has still won the election. Every other incumbent involuntarily kicked out has dragged the party down.
