Members of the Democrat Party don’t want President Biden to run on the 2024 ticket. They do not think he can be re-elected.
The New York Times reported:
Republicans are expected to have massive victories in the 2022 midterms and just about all of the 50 Democrats interviewed do not believe that President Biden can help the party keep the White House in 2024.
A Democratic National Committee (DNC) Steve Simeonidis, mentioned that President Biden should step aside and let someone else run in the 2024 election.
“To say our country was on the right track would flagrantly depart from reality,” he told The New York Times.
“Biden should announce his intent no to seek re-election in ’24 right after the midterms.”
“Democrats need fresh, bold leadership for the 2024 presidential race,” a DNC member from North Carolina, Sheila Huggins, said.
Most of the top Democrat Party members were hesitant to speak on the record about the future of President Biden’s presidency.
The Conservative Brief reported:
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.
That has left Democratic leaders struggling to explain away a series of calamities for the party that all seem beyond Mr. Biden’s control: inflation rates unseen in four decades, surging gas prices, a lingering pandemic, a spate of mass shootings, a Supreme Court poised to end the federal right to an abortion, and key congressional Democrats’ refusal to muscle through the president’s Build Back Better agenda or an expansion of voting rights.
A majority of those interviewed were most concerned with President Biden’s age, 79 currently and 82 in 2024.
David Axelrod, former President Obama’s chief strategist for his campaigns, said, “The presidency is a monstrously taxing job and the stark reality is the president would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term, and that would be a major issue.”
“Biden doesn’t get the credit he deserves for steering the country through the worst of the pandemic, passing historic legislation, pulling the NATO alliance together against Russian aggression and restoring decency and decorum to the White House,” he added.
“And part of the reason he doesn’t is performative. He looks his age and isn’t as agile in front of a camera as he once was, and this has fed a narrative about competence that isn’t rooted in reality.”
But, some don’t agree that President Biden isn’t fit for the presidency.
“Only one person steered a transition past Trump’s lies and court challenges and insurrection to take office on Jan. 20: Joe Biden,” Anita Dunn, one of the president’s senior advisors, said.
Cristobal Alex, a former senior advisor for the Biden campaign said, “I am worried that leaders in the party aren’t more aggressively touting the success of the administration.”
