No American political party ever needed a reset more than the Democrats right now.

The drumbeat for President Joe Biden to step aside just keeps growing. The kind of quiet advice he has been receiving about that from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now reverberating loudly in public.

It's past time to face it – Joe Biden is the past for Democrats. He served a long and distinguished career, capped by the presidency he always coveted. But he isn't up to the job of defeating the man he beat in 2020, former President Donald Trump.

It's time for a change. And that change must happen now, not later. Biden should finish his term while stepping aside in the campaign, throwing his support to Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket.

It’s hard to imagine the party rolling the dice on an open Democratic National Convention in Chicago four weeks from now. That way portends chaos.

It’s also difficult to see the Democratic Party’s Black female supporters, the one loyal chunk of the base that stuck with Biden as his poll numbers crashed, accepting the elevation of another presidential nominee over Harris, the first Black, South Asian and female vice president of the United States.

Harris, 59, has the résumé – a former California attorney general, service in the U.S. Senate and four years as an understudy for the most powerful position on the planet. Biden, in a July 11 news conference, called Harris "qualified to be president."

Harris would need a running mate. And the........

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