Because we are being forced to absorb a decade’s worth of paradigm-shifting news in the matter of one calendar month, pundits have now pivoted to speculation surrounding who Democrats will choose as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate.

President Joe Biden is out of the race, and aside from a post on X announcing his withdrawal and a bizarre speakerphone call to Harris at what was formerly Biden HQ in Wilmington, Delaware, the alleged president has not been seen or heard from in six days. Considering his physical and mental state, Democrats and the press know that now is the time to prop up his replacement, and her eventual replacement, if they have any hope of stopping former President Donald Trump’s seemingly inevitable march back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.