Democrats look for a new face, abort Joe Biden for 2024

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Top members of the Democrat Party are already frustrated and fed-up with Joe Biden and are unwilling to let Biden get the presidential ticket in 2024 as they do not believe, with series of disastrous failures, Biden can be reelected. Meanwhile, some of the members of the party also are unsure as to whether Biden can complete the current tenure because of multiple health issues including malfunctioned brain.

Meanwhile 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, The New York Times reported.

Democratic National Committee (DNC) member Steve Simeonidis, said that President Biden should step aside and allow someone else to take the reins 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 not to seek reelection in ’24 right after the midterms”.

“Democrats need fresh, bold leadership for the 2024 presidential race”, Shelia Huggins, a DNC member from North Carolina said. “That can’t be Joe Biden”.

Most top elected Democrats were reluctant to speak on the record about Biden’s future, and no one interviewed expressed any ill will toward Joe Biden, to whom they are universally grateful for ousting Donald Trump from office.

But the repeated failures of Biden’s 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 Joe 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.

The majority of those who were interviewed expressed concerns about the president’s age, 79 right now and 82 in 2024.

“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”, David Axelrod, former President Obama’s chief strategist for both of his campaigns, said.

“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 said. “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 of President Biden’s supporters disagreed that he is not the correct person for the job.

“Only one person steered a transition past Trump’s lies and court challenges and insurrection to take office on Jan. 20: Joe Biden”, one of the president’s senior advisors, Anita Dunn, said.

Other Biden allies dismissed suggestions that any other Democrat would do better than him in 2024.

“This is the same hand-wringing that we heard about Barack Obama in 2010 and 2011”, Ben LaBolt, who worked on former President Obama’s campaigns, said.

Cristóbal Alex, who used to be a senior adviser for the Biden campaign and also served as the deputy cabinet secretary in the White House until May, said Biden is the only Democrat that would be able to win the election in 2024.

“I am worried that leaders in the party aren’t more aggressively touting the success of the administration”, he said to The New York Times. “The narrative needs to shift, and that can only happen with a powerful echo chamber combined with action in Congress on remaining priorities. The American people feel unsettled”.

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