Joe Biden Cannot Run in 2024.
He would lose in a historic fashion, and we all know it.
If the election were to be held today Joe Biden would lose, and lose in a historic fashion.
As he should, of course. It would be his own fault, wouldn’t it? I’ve grown exhausted of discussing and considering all the ways Joe Biden’s administration and the weak, feckless leadership of the House and Senate have failed the American people. Frankly though, I’m sure my frustration is absolutely nothing compared to what many of the organizers in states like Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin must be feeling. Georgia in particular. Those activists moved mountains to not only get that man elected, but deliver the Senate to the Democratic Party as well.
What have they gotten in return?
Under Joe Biden’s leadership, Americans couldn’t even get a $15 federal minimum wage.
Not one, not two, but eight Democratic Senators voted against it.
Under his leadership the child tax credit expired, plunging millions of children back into poverty. Of course, there’s also the fact that they have failed to deliver universal pre-k, robust climate legislation, student debt relief…they couldn’t even get voting rights legislation passed.
We’ve been over it before so many times, right?
We’ve heard it all.
But now it seems, questions of whether or not Joe Biden should run for re-election appear to be spreading.
Richard Luscombe with The Guardian writes:
“The leftwing congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday refused to endorse Joe Biden for another run at the White House, adding to growing anxiety in Democratic circles over the president’s ability to run in and win the 2024 election.
The powerful progressive New Yorker said she could not commit to supporting Biden during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, saying she was more focused on trying to preserve Democrats’ congressional majority in November’s midterms.
“We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it,” Ocasio-Cortez said when asked directly if she would support Biden…”
As Luscombe went on to point out in his piece, AOC is certainly not alone.
Reid Epstein and Jennifer Medina with The New York Times write:
“…Interviews with nearly 50 Democratic officials, from county leaders to members of Congress, as well as with disappointed voters who backed Mr. Biden in 2020, reveal a party alarmed about Republicans’ rising strength and extraordinarily pessimistic about an immediate path forward…
…Most top elected Democrats were reluctant to speak on the record about Mr. Biden’s future, and no one interviewed expressed any ill will toward Mr. Biden, to whom they are universally grateful for ousting Mr. Trump from office.
But the repeated failures of his administration to pass big-ticket legislation on signature Democratic issues, as well as his halting efforts to use the bully pulpit of the White House to move public opinion, have left the president with sagging approval ratings and a party that, as much as anything, seems to feel sorry for him…”
Of course, when asked AOC went on to give a standard answer one would expect from any politician: right now, she’s focused on the midterms.
The thing is, if were being honest the midterms are essentially already gone. November is not far away at all, and Joe Biden’s approval rating is in the low 30s. There is a chance Democrats could hang on to the Senate, but I would be absolutely shocked if Democrats held the House.
Of course they’re looking ahead to 2024.
As feckless and incompetent as the Democratic Party might be, it’s difficult to deny that Biden’s chances are looking so grim, they’re probably trying to figure out right now how to have him step aside.
If Democrats want any chance of salvaging their electoral chances for the next ten years at a minimum, Joe Biden cannot run. The donors, in this instance, I think would agree. Not because they have any interest in the best interests of the American people or the damage that the Republican Party would do, obviously. But the Republican Party is unstable, teetering on the edge of fascism.
Instability, of course, isn’t exactly good for the market or their stock portfolios.
The moment the donors decide it’s in their best interests as well to have Joe Biden step aside, he’s done.
For those of us on the left, we’d be smart to plan accordingly, and not allow someone like Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg to be ordained.
Things are so bad that if Joe Biden would lose in 2024, anyone close to him certainly would, too.
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