Democrats Are Stuck With Kamala Harris

There is one certainty in 2024's tumultuous campaign: If President Biden goes, Harris stays.

Biden's Worst-Case Scenario Is Unfolding

Last Thursday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its advance estimate for 2024's first-quarter real GDP growth. At 1.6 percent, it is the worst quarterly performance since the economy contracted by 0.6 percent almost two years ago in the second quarter of 2022. This was a growth level one-third below economists' expectations of 2.4 percent. It is also a precipitous drop from 2023's fourth quarter rate of 3.4 percent and 2023'third quarter rate of 4.9 percent.