Psaki: Opening the Democratic Convention for Other Potential Candidates Would Leave the Party Divided and Upset

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PSAKI: “I’ll raise the alternative option which is I think what would happen in “The west wing” episode if there was an episode on this.”

KARL: “We can do a debate.”

PSAKI: “The president would endorse somebody and everybody would line up behind them and the public would be happy. That is not how it would work, and I think this is the piece that’s completely underestimated. Joe Biden had a terrible debate night, terrible performance. I worked for him for a year and a half as you know and I don’t think anybody should tell you otherwise, but an open convention means you have an amazing bench of potential 2028 candidates. A lot of people you saw out. You have the vice president of the United States. You have them competing against each other. You have a group of inside Democrat, not the American public who nominated Joe Biden, selecting who the nominee is, and then after that process, somebody is spit out of that process and a lot of people are angry. They’re disappointed. They don’t maybe — maybe they don’t like who the person is, and then you have a person who is untested, even if they’re great and they have enormous potential which we have a lot of 2028 Democrats who do.”