 It will come out the same way it came out in 1968, 1972, and 1980. Those are three years in which Democrats had an open convention and lost the presidency a couple months later. At the beginning of the day, former Democratic, now independent, Senator Joe Manchin became the latest high-profile senator to urge the president to step aside and was asked on CNN's State of the Union if he would run should the president do that. You would not pursue if Joe Biden said he was not running for re-election? No, I wouldn't.