Will the Democrats win after Biden’s withdrawal?

Even if Kamala Harris were to run and lose to them, polls suggest she would outperform Biden, improving Democrats’ chances of winning the House of Representatives. Picture: AP/Susan Walsh
US president Joe Biden’s decision to step aside as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate has transformed American politics. It caps a historic July in the United States, one defined by far-reaching Supreme Court decisions and the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump on the eve of the Republican Convention.
Biden’s decision, urged by many Democratic Party officials and donors and favored by many voters, was the right choice. In the wake of a debate widely viewed as a debacle for Biden, his age had made it all but impossible for him to make the case to the American people that he deserved another four years — and was making it impossible for him to make the case that Trump did not.