I’ve been thinking about this lately. You have a clearly diminished incumbent, one who will be forced to display that diminished capacity publicly this year. He has more pensions than Trump has women suing him. I can see him taking the money and not running. He probably can still remember Bill Roth’s campaign literally crashing to the ground…along with Bill Roth.
What happens then? I think that Kerri Harris has established herself as the progressive alternative and is well on the way to putting a strong grassroots team in place. I hope/think that all progressives will/would rally around her candidacy.
However, the corporate Democratic Party loyalists, those who embrace the Third Way and the Concord Coalition, won’t go gently into that good night. So, who will they rally around?
My guess? Jack Markell. The guy who wrote this article. Just read that screed. Not only can’t we afford to keep Carper in the Senate, we can’t afford Markell sliding into that seat.
So, you know what to do.
OK, with that out of the way, what do you think will happen if Carper retires? Or, do you think that there is no chance that Carper hangs it up?