As Biden team suggests there can be no alternative, DNC rules provide a path if Biden were to step aside

WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden’s campaign tries to calm nervous Democrats, the Democratic National Committee is circulatingtalking pointsthat misleadingly suggest, according to some sources, there is no procedural means of replacing the president at the top of the party’s ticket — without sharing the path ahead if he were to step aside. "Joe Biden will be the Democratic Party's nominee for president," the talking points read, according to a copy provided by a source who received them. "Any other discussion is a distraction and 'brokered' conventions are a thing of the past."They go on to say that "the only person eligible for nomination is Joe Biden."Biden has been firm in saying he will stay in the race, and the "DNC Talking Points for Convention Nomination Rules" that are being circulated within the party are mostly accurate — up until the party's August convention ends.But as the party’s rules stand now, according to three people who are familiar with them and the DNC’s 2022 do...