Opinion | Who Should Lead the Democratic Ticket? Six Columnists Weigh In.

With President Biden’s candidacy in question, we asked six New York Times Opinion columnists: Who would you like to see as the Democratic nominee? Read their answers below.Or listen here:00:35 Lydia Polgreen on Vice President Kamala Harris06:33 Nicholas Kristof on Gov.

Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan09:42 Ross Douthat on Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia13:55 Pamela Paul on Gov.Wes Moore of Maryland18:10 David French on Gov.

Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania23:57 Charles Blow on President BidenLydia Polgreen: Kamala Harris ‘Does Very Well in Going Up Against Bullies’I’m Lydia Polgreen, Opinion columnist for The New York Times.Like many of my colleagues, I think it’s time for Joe Biden to bow out.

And I believe that the best person to replace him is Kamala Harris.She didn’t make it that far in the primaries, and that might make you think: This is someone who has tried and failed to become president — why would she be good on the national stage? But I think it’s important to remember that running in the primaries and running for the general election are actually two very different things.In the primaries, you’re essentially running against your peers — in many cases, your fellow politicians from your party — and you’re arguing with them over smaller differences than the big differences that separate our politics in this very polarized time.And where gender and race actually play a huge role in terms of how people are perceived and where the showing of emotion or anger or other feelings play very differently, depending on whether you’re a woman, depending on whether you’re a person of color — that primary environment, I think, is actually quite complicated.Those same dynamics can be at play in a general election, as well, but they’re actually much different in this particular general election, because Donald Trump is a very particular kind of politician.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your...