Opinion | Who Should Lead the Democratic Ticket? Six Columnists Weigh In. – The New York Times

With President Bidens candidacy in question, we asked six New York Times Opinion columnists: Who would you like to see as the Democratic nominee? Read their answers below. Or listen here:

00:35: Lydia Polgreen on Vice President Kamala Harris

06:33: Nicholas Kristof on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan

09:42: Ross Douthat on Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia

13:55: Pamela Paul on Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland

18:10: David French on Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania

23:57: Charles M. Blow on President Biden

Im Lydia Polgreen, Opinion columnist for The New York Times. Like many of my colleagues, I think its time for Joe Biden to bow out. And I believe that the best person to replace him is Kamala Harris.

She didnt make it that far in the primaries, and that might make you think: This is someone who has tried and failed to become president why would she be good on the national stage? But I think its important to remember that running in the primaries and running for the general election are actually two very different things.

In the primaries, youre essentially running against your peers in many cases, your fellow politicians from your party and youre arguing with them over smaller differences than the big differences that separate our politics in this very polarized time. And where gender and race actually play a huge role in terms of how people are perceived and where the showing of emotion or anger or other feelings play very differently, depending on whether youre a woman, depending on whether youre a person of color that primary environment, I think, is actually quite complicated.

Those same dynamics can be at play in a general election, as well, but theyre actually much different in this particular general election, because Donald Trump is a very particular kind of politician.

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Opinion | Who Should Lead the Democratic Ticket? Six Columnists Weigh In. - The New York Times