Whoever Biden picks as his running mate could very likely be our candidate in 2024

[Kaleva]

Assuming Biden wins, I very much doubt he'll run for a second term and if he were to lose, the running mate would be the early favorite to win the nomination in 2024.

Just my opinion.

[elleng]

1. Been thinking along those lines, AND

chance for first Woman + Woman ticket, considering the large number of highly qualified women on the stage now!

(NOT thinking Joe will lose, but his VP will stand for Prez in next election, whether '24 or later.)

(FIRST time I've said this ANYWHERE, and anxious about jinxing, so I'll be quiet about it now.)

[calguy]

2. I'm sure Joe will win

and I'm sure he'll serve only one term. He's the right man at the right time to stabilize the country and pass the baton to the next generation of democrats. I just turned 70 this week so I likely won't see that many more administrations, hopefully I'll never see another republican administration.

[SoonerPride]

3. If Biden "loses" there won't be an election in 2024

This is our last gasp to save the republic.

If we don’t crush trump and the republicans then we don’t actually have a free election system and they will have perpetrated the greatest theft in history.

If that occurs then our country is finished.

This is an existential election.

[roamer65]

6. If Dump steals it, I am definitely 100 percent into the separatist camp.

It will be time to talk to Ottawa about certain northern states joining the Canadian confederation.

There will be movements very much like what there is in Quebec.

Personally, I think it will happen anyway but Biden’s election just stalls it by a few years. Much like the Compromise of 1850 bought us 10 years before a civil war.

Could end up like the final split of the Roman Empire in 395AD. The Eastern half continued for another 1000 years. The Western half was gone in about 70.

[Blasphemer]

7. I agree... someone I regard highly went even further...

According to this person, it's not just about the U.S., a Trump victory would signal the end of Western democracy. That's a chilling thought. The stakes are high.

[uponit7771]

10. +1

[Aristus]

12. Trump has fired a lot of shots across the bow of democracy.

But the loudest has to be the use of the Nazi red triangle in his campaign ads. It's only going to get worse...

[still_one]

4. If we lose the country is finished for decades to come. The SC would just be the start of its demis

[brokephibroke]

5. Same page

It’s an important decision to make.

[tinrobot]

8. That thinking makes a younger candidate seem more likely

[delisen]

9. I expect 2024 to be a free for all-lots of pent-up ambition & deep party fissures

People are coming together to defeat Trump-but the fissure in our party and the country will not be healed by 2024-the fissures will be wider and deeper.

The election of of Obama in 2008 did not make us a post-racist society as so many were claiming at the time and the election of a "not-Trump" s not going to produce healing no matter which vp is selected.

I see the vp selection process as extremely sloppy and manipulativeandf resulting in more disappointments than enthusiasm.

[Kaleva]

11. If Harris is the pick, I expect her to be the odds on favorite for the nomination in 2024