Democrats pitch blitz primary to replace Biden with a little help from Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey [Video]

As Joe Biden struggles to convince his fellow Democrats that he remains the right man to take on Donald Trump in November following his disastrous debate performance in Atlanta last month, two party insiders have proposed a novel “blitz primary” process for choosing his successor.

Rosa Brooks and Ted Dintersmith, a Georgetown University law professor and venture capitalist respectively, began circulating a memo to wealthy party donors and members of the Biden administration and campaign on July 2 in which they outline their plan for replacing the 81-year-old president as the Democratic nominee.

The duo’s scheme, first reported by Semafor, would require Biden to voluntarily announce his decision to step aside by delivering “a speech for the ages” later this month, which, the memo’s authors believe, would see him “hailed as a …