Yes, the default seems to be to keep Hollow Joe with the idea that the VP will take over. Given Joe’s rapid decline, that may be within a few months of inauguration.
State laws will make it difficult to change a presidential nominee after the current Democratic Convention date of August 20. Here is information I found from 2016: In 2016, the bulk of the dates for certifying the names of major party presidential candidates were in August and September. Mid-August was the point at which either party could have found a replacement nominee and still have been able to get its candidate’s name on the ballot in enough states to be competitive in November without having to navigate the courts and ballot access issues. For example, if a nominee had dropped out in late August, his or her name would already have been certified to appear as the party’s candidate for president in about 20 states. If he or she had dropped out in late September, that number would have risen to almost 40 states.
If Biden has a sudden decline after the convention, the Democrats may be stuck with him. Reality may set in sooner than some expect.
The debate details are being worked out. Biden has apparently agreed to having a debate, but not to actually appear at the debate:
“Kate left herself a little bit of a trap door there in not concretely saying Joe Biden will actually debate President Trump,” Perrine (Trump communications director) said of Bedingfield (Biden communications director). “She said he agreed to the debates but not actually if he would show up.”
From your link:
" Earlier on Fox News, Biden deputy campaign manager and communications director Kate Bedingifeld told “America’s Newsroom” that Biden was the “one candidate in this race who has agreed to three debates”.
“The Trump campaign has actually not agreed yet to participate in the debates set by the presidential debate commission.”"
“Let’s Scrap the Presidential Debates,” headlined a New York Times opinion piece Monday.
“Biden better walk back any offers to debate Trump,” pushed the Boston Herald.
Others have been more direct.
“Whatever you do, don’t debate Trump,” former Clinton White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart urged Biden in a CNN piece last week, arguing not that Biden’s struggle to form coherent sentences could prove problematic but instead President Donald Trump will spout unchecked lies to the millions of voters watching.
Thomas Friedman at The New York Times called on Biden to skip the presidential tradition unless Trump released his tax returns and agrees to a fact-checking team validating or correcting claims in real time.
“I worry about Joe Biden debating Donald Trump,” Friedman wrote frankly.
Biden’s allies have reason to worry. While the presumptive Democratic nominee made it through a primary of more than 25 candidates this year despite making a series of slip-ups, Biden’s apparent cognitive decline has become ever clearer as live mistakes have become far more frequent over the course of the summer.
That is a fiction. Trump knows full well Biden has issues and thinks the Dems are very creepy and committing elder abuse by running Biden, like any sane person would feel. Trump feels sorry for Biden and hates the idea he will have to bring up Burisma, etc. knowing it was Obama ordering Joe to do those things. He knows Biden is a sad case right now and his goal is not to crush Biden as a person.
Trump has heart and knows the Dems don’t care about Biden at all. They must get their jollys running someone with dementia, as a way to poop on America. It’s disgusting.
Biden got the nomination when the Democratic establishment panicked that Bernie was going to get the nomination back in February.
Bloomberg was unable to buy enough votes, so the establishment forced out the younger and healthier candidates to allow Biden to win. At the time the economy was booming and CNN was still running stories about how the flu was more dangerous than the coronavirus, so Democrats figured if they were going to lose it would be with an actual Democrat instead of a Socialist as their candidate.
I think they are now realizing that Biden’s continued decline is becoming way to obvious, and they will need to dump him if they are going to have any shot at winning. The convention could get very interesting.
Its what is left. Trump can’t run on his successes. So, the CEC is drumming up these dumb crazy ideas that Joe will drop out, he won’t debate, he’s senile, he’s just a puppet.
The CEC is driving the narrative. No independent thought, just CEC-driven parroting.