Democrats pitch ‘blitz primary’ to replace Biden with a little help from Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey

As Joe Biden struggles to convince his fellow Democrats that he remains the right man to take on Donald Trump in November following his disastrous debate performance in Atlanta last month, two party insiders have proposed a novel “blitz primary” process for choosing his successor.

Rosa Brooks and Ted Dintersmith, a Georgetown University law professor and venture capitalist respectively, began circulating a memo to wealthy party donors and members of the Biden administration and campaign on July 2 in which they outline their plan for replacing the 81-year-old president as the Democratic nominee.

The duo’s scheme, first reported by Semafor, would require Biden to voluntarily announce his decision to step aside by delivering “a speech for the ages” later this month, which, the memo’s authors believe, would see him “hailed as a modern-day George Washington, not an octogenarian clinging to power with a 37 percent approval rating.”

Under the plan, the president doing so — with the full support of his vice president Kamala Harris — would trigger a new primary process in which a fresh slate of contenders would be given a few days to put themselves forward as candidates before delegates to the Democratic National Convention whittle the list down to just six names.

The sextet would then begin running “positive-only” campaigns in the month ahead of the party convention in Chicago, Illinois, from August 19-22, which would be punctuated by weekly forums at which they would be interviewed by prominent, politically-sympathetic celebrities, with Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama and Stephen Colbert among the names touted in the memo, a gambit intended to generate as much social media excitement as possible.

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