2024 Presidential Primaries: President Joe Biden vs. Gov. Roy Cooper

[Fuzzy Bear]

It's not looking good for Biden in 2024, but he's likely to run anyway.

What would happen if, say, Roy Cooper (who goes out of office in 2025) looks with horror at the 2024 election and opts to challenge Biden as unelectable and Harris as an unelectable alternative?

Could such an effort gain traction?  What appeals would be made?  Obviously, the prevention of a Mondale-eque debacle would be one appeal, but what would Cooper have to say to get Democrats to reject Biden, should he be stubborn and run?

Biden or Harris at the top of the Democratic ticket are the worst possibilities, each for a different reason.  Could a guy like Cooper make an appeal to get Biden to step aside?  How successful would t be?

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Too little name recognition outside of NC and nothing to offer Biden doesn't offer already, zero chance.

[Independents for Nihilism]

Too little name recognition outside of NC and nothing to offer Biden doesn't offer already, zero chance.

I disagree, he offers not being Biden. That said, maybe he scores well in an early primary, maybe even wins a weird one, but I doubt he knocks off a sitting president even if it would be a good idea to move onto a more recent model.

[Schiff for Senate]

Cooper wouldn't win. Primary challenges to incumbent presidents never succeed.

[TDAS04]

In the unlikely event of a major primary challenge to Biden (assuming he seeks reelection), a challenge from the left—such as from Sander or Warren or AOC—would be more likely.  Not that I think that that’s likely at all either, but I don’t see a Cooper-type challenging an incumbent Biden.  In the very remote chance that he did, Cooper wouldn’t get very far.