Congressional Democrats will have a lot to discuss this week when it comes to whether President Biden should be their party's nominee in November.
A reckoning looms. Mark it on your calendar. It will begin Monday night on Capitol Hill. Maybe punctuated by a meeting of the House Democratic Caucus Tuesday morning. Augmented by the customary Senate Democratic Caucus luncheon Tuesday afternoon.
The reckoning will slip into Wednesday and perhaps Thursday. We will learn where Democrats stand with President Biden during this reckoning. And we may even learn whether the president is staying in the race or standing down. It is said that timing is everything. And Mr. Biden and congressional Democrats certainly couldn’t have had worse timing over the past week-plus.
The worst thing to happen to Democrats is that the House met last Friday, just hours after the political brownfields site which doubled as the debate stage in Atlanta. That meant that the Capitol Hill press corps spent all Friday morning chasing every House Democrat imaginable through the halls of Congress, peppering them with questions about Biden’s performance. Never before were Democratic senators so glad the Senate was out that day. In fact, the Senate didn’t meet at all last week.
One thing to watch for: where California Democrats stand. Forty California Democrats comprise the 213 member House Democratic Caucus. That’s nearly 19%. It’s 9% of the entire 432-member House . Don’t forget that Vice President Harris is a Californian and served as the Golden State’s senator. If California Democrats begin to move against Biden, it’s hard to see how they don’t align with Harris.
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