Biden’s presidential race worries Democrats more than Republicans
Betting on Joe Biden's re-election in 2024 just because Donald Trump is the easiest Republican to beat could turn out to be right but it is a gamble and the US Democrats seem to realize it only now. Here are all the reasons why the current president of the United States should step aside and make way for someone else. The Wall Street Journal article
This is the season of Democratic discontent, as the party and its media cronies worry about President Biden's low ranking in the polls. The questions to ask are: what took them so long and what do they plan to do?
The latest alarm comes following polls showing Biden's approval rating at 42% or so. Although the White House is rooting for Bidenomics, voters give Biden little credit. He is tied with Donald Trump in a 2024 matchup, which shows how weak Biden is for an incumbent president with a growing economy – writes the WSJ .
WHY DO NO DEMOCRATS CHALLENGE BIDEN?
The party's delirium is there for all to see. James Carville and Jim Messina, veterans of successful Democratic campaigns, berate the party's "rookies." But some media say Biden is expected to announce he will not run for a second term. He could leave office as a Democratic hero who saved the country from a second Trump term, say he has made a lot of progress and let the party nominate someone from the next generation.
Yet no prominent Democrat has been willing to say this publicly, much less challenge Biden in the primaries. For months we have asked the Democrats we hang out with why no one challenges Biden, given his unpopularity. Their response boils down to confidence that Trump will be the Republican nominee, that he is the easiest Republican to beat, that Biden has already done it once, and that a primary challenge would be more divisive than it's worth.
ALL THE REASONS WHY IT SHOULD BE CHALLENGED INSTEAD
Maybe this will turn out to be right, but it's a long shot. Given Biden's obvious political responsibilities:
– His age and decline. The press tried to cover Biden, but voters trust their own eyes. About 73% of registered voters in the latest Wall Street Journal poll say Biden is too old to run for president. Biden turns 81 in two months, and aging can accelerate at any time. The White House will try to repeat a Rose Garden version of Wilmington's winery strategy for 2020, but it may not work.
– Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden chose her as his running mate in 2020 to meet his party's identity politics demands. But the choice backfired on her, as she demonstrated that she was not capable of being Commander in Chief and was often embarrassing in interviews. Everyone knows that a vote for Biden in 2024 is likely a vote for President Harris, and Republicans will stress that until Election Day if she remains in the running.
– Hunter Biden and family affairs. House Republicans have already revealed enough details to confirm the president's son's use of the Biden name — "the brand," as business partner Devon Archer put it — to enrich the family. The press may say there is no evidence that Joe Biden received a check, but Democrats don't know what remains to be discovered.
Trump will be relentless in pursuing all of this politically, and the danger for Democrats is that the Biden family's influence will end up neutralizing Trump's indictments as a burden. That's what he did to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
– The economy. The economy has recovered this year and third-quarter growth was strong, but a slowdown is expected in the coming months. Despite the decline in inflation, real incomes are still far from catching up to the price increases of the last 30 months. If unemployment were to rise to 5% or 6%, Democrats would suffer political damage and would not have much ability to counter it.
– Migrants. The problem of migrants that is spreading. Has there ever been a greater self-inflicted political wound than the Biden administration's refusal to deter and halt the surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border? Biden refuses to challenge his progressive base on the asylum law, and the damage has spread far and wide. Democratic elected officials are pleading for help. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Biden supporter, is warning Democrats that it will hurt the party in 2024 if they don't act.
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There are other potential dangers, not least from adversaries abroad. Russia, China and Iran may seek to exploit the divisions of America's election year. But there are already enough political risks to justify Democrats' alarm.
Democrats may be right to think that Trump will be their savior again, as he has been in every election since 2016. But if they remain on the Biden-Harris ticket and wake up the day after the election to find that Trump has repeated the miracle of 2016, don't blame the Republicans. The Democrats will have made an equally decisive contribution.
(Excerpt from the foreign press review edited by eprcomunicazione )
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-corsa-presidenziale-di-biden-preoccupa-piu-i-democratici-che-i-repubblicani/ on Sun, 17 Sep 2023 05:23:31 +0000.