Jen Psaki pours cold water on proposal to switch to a brokered Democratic convention
Former Joe Biden White House press secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki cautioned her viewers that a brokered Democratic convention being proposed by some liberal commentators after Biden's terrible debate performance is easier to talk about than it is to pull off.
While Psaki didn't say it was impossible, she did state that it could end in disaster in multiple ways that some advocates seem to be unaware of.
"I'm not going to sit here and tell you what to think, but those of you out there who have hopes of Joe Biden stepping aside for a with a brokered convention, you should know all the factors there," she lectured. "First of all, it would have a seismic impact on the Democratic party if the president stayed neutral and didn't endorse his own vice president."
"It would mean also a couple of thousand party insiders would be empowered to make a choice on the nominee, not the millions of Democratic primary voters who already cast their ballots," she continued. "And it could mean positioning a talented, and there are many Democrats who are talented out there, but a largely untested candidate with potentially low name identification into the national spotlight as one person responsible for defeating Trump just over two months from an election."
"You may still prefer that option, but you should know the candidate spit out of that process and may not be your choice either," she added. "It will all be very messy and potentially very divisive. It still feels very unlikely. right now, Jill Biden is standing by the president — the most important person in his life. Barack Obama is standing by him."
"We can discuss and debate all day long whether that is the right thing, there are reasonable and thoughtful arguments on both sides of that question, and we will discuss them over the course of the show and over the next few weeks," she promised.
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