After a month of grief, dread, tears and hand-wringing, congressional Democrats are relieved — jubilant, really — that they’ve successfully ditched what many of them identified as the root of all their electoral troubles: Joe Biden.
“There’s a great spirit of hope out there,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, the Texas Democrat who was first among his colleagues to urge the president to get out of the race after his poor debate performance against Donald Trump in June.
With Vice President Kamala Harris already poised to claim the party’s nomination, “we have hope of winning this election,” Doggett told reporters on Tuesday.