Even Harris is polling better, and doesn't have the pro-genocide baggage. If polls are to be believed she has a better chance of beating out Trump, especially among key demographics of black voters and suburban women, and if she has a better chance then I feel like basically anyone does.

https://www.newsweek.com/gretchen-whither-chances-beating-trump-poll-1919211

That's my concern too. Harris was closest at about the same percent as Biden. Though it did increase the amount of people who would say they're not sure when compared to the Biden Trump race. It's possible a new candidate might have some wiggle room to convince more swing voters. So I think there's an argument to be made that some of the potential replacements have a higher ceiling than Biden does that they might get to even if they start at a lower polling basis. I would feel a lot better about a switch if someone was actually polling better than Biden already though.

https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/358559/biden-harris-whitmer-newsom-shapiro-buttigieg-alternative-nomination-candidate-2024

These ones were earlier from February 2024, and though it was only in a single poll, the only person who recorded a higher percent than Biden in a poll was fucking Joe Manchin, ugh.

~69% of voters neither approve nor disapprove of Whitmere fro president.

She's the best shot we have that the DNC would appoint.

And I have zero reason to doubt shed beat Trump. Plus as the recent victim for a kidnapping plot, she's going to take the risk of fascists seriously.

Among the full US public, Biden’s favorability rating stands at just 34%, with 58% viewing him unfavorably. And while many of the Democratic names bandied about as possible replacements for Biden are less widely disliked, none would start with more public goodwill – instead, they are less well known. Harris has the widest recognition – and is also deeply underwater, with a 29% favorability rating, 49% rating her unfavorably, and 22% saying they have no opinion or haven’t heard of her. Roughly half of the public has no opinion on Buttigieg (50%) and Newsom (48%), with about two-thirds (69%) offering no opinion of Whitmer.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/politics/cnn-poll-post-debate/index.html

She's not beating trump in head to head polls yet. But if she was the candidate she likely would be. And I think that head to head poll is from Data for Progress anyways, which has a whole bunch of issues.

But it's important to remember that literally anyone's numbers would go up in head to head polls if they had an active campaign and the DNC supporting them.

Biden already has that, it's as good as it's going to get for him, because the more voters interact with him, the worse his numbers get.