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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - With a increasing database of Democratic members and senators calling connected President Joe Biden to extremity his bid for reelection, Fresno State Political Science Professor Tom Holyoke said the unit indispensable person yet got to the president.
"I deliberation President Biden saw the penning connected the partition and decided to measurement down," Holyoke said.
Even locally, Fresno Democratic Congressman Jim Costa called connected Biden to measurement down and "pass the torch" last week connected Thursday.
"Part of the interest for pushing, encouraging President Biden to bow retired was that helium was being seen progressively arsenic a resistance connected the nationalist ticket, that this was going to wounded Democrats successful House and Senate races and possibly adjacent governorships arsenic well," Holyoke added.
He said if Vice President Kamala Harris is astatine the apical of the ticket, it could person a important interaction connected turnout for Democrats nationwide.
"We don't truly cognize yet however things are going to enactment if it's Kamala Harris arsenic the caller Democratic nominee oregon idiosyncratic else. My conjecture is, is that Harris volition astir apt beryllium beauteous breathtaking to astir of the Democratic base, and that mightiness assistance with Democratic turnout," helium said.
Holyoke said delegates pledged to ballot for Biden, inactive person to power implicit to Harris- oregon whoever the nominee is.
But helium said 1 happening is certain- it volition person a immense interaction connected however some campaigns determination forward; promoting their candidate- and attacking the other.
"There volition beryllium a large rhetorical shift, I anticipate. The Republicans were cautiously trying to bushed up Joe Biden astir his property and his cognitive abilities," helium said. "Now, with Joe Biden out, I expect the Democrats to truly commencement attacking erstwhile President Trump astir his property and cognitive abilities."
Despite calls from Republicans that Biden measurement down from the presidency altogether, Holyoke said helium does not spot that happening.
