Biden

Special counsel Robert Hur was assigned to review President Bidens handling of classified documents, something considered by many as a minor problem. When he released his report on February 2024 Hur concluded that no criminal charges were warranted, partly because he believed it would be difficult to convince a jury to convict Biden, whom he described as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory". This raised the question of whether a person who was not capable of standing trial could be president. To answer this the White House said that Hur was a republican operative and the report was right wing propaganda. Later when the report was released most felt that Hur was kind in his remarks. In hindsight, many suggested that Biden should have dropped out of the race at that time, which would have given the party time to have a nominating process. Others say that Harris would still have been the candidate because the party would have been unable to by pass a VP who was a Black female. They were captives of identity politics.