Even before the news broke this past Sunday that Joe Biden would end his presidential run in the face of a disastrous debate last month and sinking poll numbers and endorse the vice-president, Kamala Harris, to take his place, the memes had already been circulating.
Fictional vice-president Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), the title character of HBO’s spleen-filled political comedy Veep, enters a room of her closest advisers/lackeys and announces, with bated breath and to an outburst of applause: “I’m not leaving. Potus is leaving. He’s not going to run for a second term. I’m gonna run. I’m gonna run for president!”
