TEXAS, USA — President Joe Biden’s disastrous performance during the first Presidential debate still has Democrats across the country hotly debating whether he should step aside.
Immediately following the debate, state Representative Ron Reynolds, D-Missouri City, called for replacing Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Rep. Reynolds will be a national delegate to the Democratic National Convention, which will be held in Chicago starting August 19.
And he didn’t rule out a floor fight to replace President Biden at the top of the ticket.
“If we decide that we’re going to change courses, I think that if we did it at the convention, I think we would have sufficient time to get behind our Democratic nominee and our new ticket,” Rep. Reynolds told us on Inside Texas Politics. “And in my opinion, it could energize. You take away age as a factor on the ballot. You take away some of the other weaknesses that President Biden has.”
Rep. Reynolds, who also chairs the Texas Legislative Black Caucus, says Biden could still win because his policies are winners.
But Reynolds calls the President’s debate performance a “train wreck” and says as many as 70% of Americans are concerned about his age and fitness, so the party has to be honest.
One question the Democrat had a hard time answering was whether President Biden should participate in a second debate.
“On one hand I want to see him redeem himself. And on the other hand, I’m concerned about a repeat,” he said bluntly.
And Rep. Reynolds says a repeat performance would not be in the best interest of the President, or the country.
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