AMAC Exclusive – By Andrew Abbott
A new consensus is emerging within the Democrat Party establishment: Yes, Joe Biden is too old to run for president again in 2024. But the party will back him anyway, because the alternative of a Kamala Harris-led ticket is worse.
That’s the upshot of a bombshell story from Politico reporter Jonathan Martin late last week detailing the private thoughts of many senior Democrat operatives, who nearly all spoke on the condition of anonymity. One senator said, “Few Democrats in [Congress] want Biden to run again,” while a governor “mused about just how little campaigning Biden would be able to do.”
A few brave Democrats have openly stated that Biden is simply too old to run. Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota has said that “if [Biden] were 15-20 years younger it would be a no-brainer to nominate him, but considering his age it’s absurd we’re not promoting competition but trying to extinguish it.”
Fellow Minnesota Democrat Angie Craig has made similar comments. Some voices in the mainstream media have also made that case, with The New York Times releasing an opinion article last July declaring “Joe Biden is too old to be president again,” and The Washington Post running an analysis piece putting the spotlight on Biden’s age and mental fitness.
But the hard truth that many Democrat power brokers have come to face is that Kamala Harris, Biden’s most obvious heir apparent, gives them an even worse chance of retaining the White House in 2024.
Harris’s tenure as vice president has been a disaster. Early in his presidency, Biden tasked her with solving the border crisis. This was met with back-to-back failures. Not only was the border not secured, but a series of interview gaffes tarnished her public image. Most notably, in an interview with Lester Holt, she dismissed criticism for not visiting the border by stating, “And I haven’t been to Europe.” The gaffe drew such criticism and condemnation that the vice president withdrew from almost all major interviews for nearly a year. Harris, it seems, is the only politician capable of doing worse in front of a microphone than her boss.
Democrats are in a bind, however. As a woman of Asian and Jamaican descent, any attempt to deny Harris the nomination would likely infuriate large parts of a Democrat base obsessed with identity politics. As vice president, Harris is also the natural choice for the nomination if Biden were to choose not to run.
This combination of factors virtually mandates that Democrats must back Harris if they abandon Biden. “Democrats have seen what happens when anyone in their party openly criticizes Harris,” Martin writes. “They’re accused by activists and social media critics of showing, at best, racial and gender insensitivity. This doesn’t stifle concerns about her prospects, of course, it just pushes them further underground or into the shadows of background quotes.”
Another House Democrat said, “The Democrats who will need to speak out on her are from the Congressional Black Caucus, no white member is going to do it.”
Re-nominating Biden, then, is perhaps more about avoiding an intraparty civil war than it is about giving Democrats the best chance to win in 2024. The obvious conclusion that most Democrats seem to have reached but few have the courage to say out loud is that the party is best off running someone not named Joe Biden or Kamala Harris in the next presidential election.
But running Biden again next year will only prolong the inevitable: whether in 2024 or 2028, Kamala Harris will expect what she feels she is owed – a clear path to the nomination.
Democrats find themselves stuck at an impasse of their own creation. If poll numbers and both Biden’s and Harris’s woeful record are any indication, however, it won’t matter who is at the top of the ticket in 2024, because both the president and vice president will find themselves voted out of office.
Andrew Abbott is the pen name of a writer and public affairs consultant with over a decade of experience in DC at the intersection of politics and culture.
Republicans Beware.
Remember Red Wave in Midterms?
As bad as the Democrats are… they will still get support from those who will never support one of us ‘evil’ Conservatives. They are also masters on generating fear for such issues as Pro-Choice, Police Brutality, military automatic weapons of mass murder and of course – Climate Change!
Look at what was just elected in Pennsylvania with Fetterman who was barely functioning.
Get involved do not sit on the sidelines.
Let me get this straight! They’ll support Joe for a second term because they don’t want Kamala to be their pick for President. Yet they’ll keep her as Joe’s Vice President. Should Joey Baby win a second term and mentally or physically go off the rails they’ll do an Article 25 on him and end up with Cackling Kamala in the Oval Office anyway. Democrats know Kamala cannot primary and win the nomination and that Joe probably won’t complete a second term. Either way she ends up in the White House. The only way to keep her from being President is to not let Joe run. Occam’s Razor says “Look for the simplest solution”.
I think we could have gotten someone alot worse like that self proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren!IMHO. As a lifelong staunch conservative, Joe is doing better than I thought he would!We are not going to convert most democrats because they have been steeped in socialist ideology for generations. They are truly blind who refuse to see.
Well, just in my opinion as a lifetime conservative. We could have done a lot worse than Joe Biden! I’m thinking of that socialist Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren!IMHO Joe has done better than I thought he would!! He could be soo much worse!We are not going to change the mindset of most democrats. They have been steeped in socialist ideology for years. Wealth redistribution. Ann, interesting theory about Kamala’s nationality! Not surprised it didn’t get much traction in 2020.
I hope the socialist/democrats are stupid enough to run Joe in 2024. Alfred E. Neuman could beat him in any race. Kamala won’t be there either. Could you honestly watch her in a debate with anyone? The old adage is so true: You just can’t argue with ignorance.
Harris is unable to run for president due to fact she is not a Natural born citizen. Her parents were not born here. In order for her to be natural born, both of her parents would have been to be born in the United States. They were not, A fact that has been a big part of her identity during the 2020 election.
Well as of right now we have 2 idiots in the White House, 1 is an old idiot and 1 is a complete and total moron, our country has never looked worse , border is a shambles, gas prices , groceries, and let us not forget chinese balloons flying from one side of our country to the other, worst administration of all time , I just hope all the people that voted for these losers are happy with what they’ve done ✌????
The states choose the presidential candidates through primary elections, not the Democratic Party. I doubt voters would choose Kamala so there is no real excuse to push an octagenarian to the top of the ticket.
If Harris is the DemocRot Party POTUS nominee in the next election, not only would she lose, but the effort to rig her a win would be so obvious that even the liberal news media would not be able to convincingly cover it up. The DemocRot Party is becoming too obvious in its ineptitude to hide the truth about its Commie leaning political posture.
We need different leadership before we will be at war with Russia thanks to Biden and the rest of the so called leaders in the White House this is sick all the people of this country will be very poor no money no food nothing but poverty in this country.
Incomptence knows no color of skin nor gender; hence Joe and Kamala.
When the checks stop coming people will look in their mirror and wonder how to eat and where to live!!!Yes,I am a liar ,and a thug ,some say a kkk supporter and while
A few more names like patriot, veteran, America first and Trump, Trump. Trump forever.GOP sucks: when you have your back to a wall and facing a firing squad Trump would have saved you not shot you. Rest in peace!!!’
Well if you want to bring up history, let’s remember the Democratic Party is the party of slavery, Jim Crow laws and the KKK! Talk about a history of hate!
Jimmy carter
Unless the radical left plays with our elections again, Kamala can pack her bags and go home. It’s going to be Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump. I’ll take either one of them. Then the United States will be the place “where woke goes to die.”
If a coin was ever minted with Biden on one side and Harris on the other, it would be the only coin in the history of the world that when you flip that coin, you would always lose regardless of which side comes up!
GET A LIFE! Everyone on this website gets it, you don’t like the Republican party, and you’ve drank way too much of the PINK Kool-Aid.
My question is, why aren’t you on an AARP website?
They were never elected into office in the first place, they were selected
Biden = Consistency for the nation. He has consistently failed at everything, even before he was president.
D’accord, Mr. Ziegler
How in the world did the smartest and most powerful country in the world allow two id the most incompetent people, Biden/Harris, be elected; and the most disturbing thing is we allowed the deep state to replace the most competent President when they denied Trump his second term?
It’s obvious that our system of governing, in America, has a serious problem.
Trump belongs in prison and DeSantis should resign in shame as governor of Florida and go to prison also.
Yep. The identity politics-addled loony bin has hoisted itself on its own petard. Unbelievable how pathetic they’ve become.
You have the brain of a 4 year old black child and I’ll bet he doesn’t want it back
Biden and Harris complement each other perfectly.. The DNC must stand by them for 2024.
You list rampant inflation as a positive, interesting.
this administration is characterized by total incompetence; it would be hilarious if the results weren’t so devastating.
Two questions. #1: What are the actuarial odds Biden (if elected in 2024) DOESN’T survive his second term? 1:5? 1:4? 1:3? (Because these are the odds of Kamala becoming POTUS by default!) #2: What plans are being made to replace Kamala on the 2024 ticket? Because if she on the ticket, she’s President when Biden kicks.
You’re kidding right?? Right? Right?
Very unlikely Biden or Harris or any Democrat would lose in 2024. Face it, at least 51% of voters only care about free stuff, abortions and the like. The US is jammed full of losers, I’m afraid.
Communist harris HIDES her prosecution records while running for VP, creates a Bail Out of Jail Bond for Criminal TERRORIST antifa and blm during their RIOTS of DESTROYING cities and ATTACKING people in 2019 and 2020 which AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED her for running as VP, and COMPLETE FAILURE as appointed czar to SECURE BORDERS after being VP
ILLEGALLY and UNCONSTITUTIONALLY, and the list goes on of her COMPLETE FAILURES. Not to mention the DUMB comments she always makes.
So why would the democrats run from her when they cry everybody racist when in fact the democrats are the racist because they won’t back her.
Just shows how 2 faced and stupid the democrats are and how they lie to everybody.
They keep picking LOSERS and Blame everybody else for their FAILURES.
One other thing. WHY is DICTATOR Beijing biden HIDING in Ukraine instead of being in Ohio HELPING the people from that Train Derailment with TOXIC Chemicals making citizens ill and WAITING 2 WEEKS before sending FEMA to help? (Waiting on Polls)
The people in Ohio sure as hell wouldn’t have had to wait 2 weeks with PRESIDENT TRUMP to send help. He would send help Immediately.
Not wait 2 weeks for Polls like DICTATOR Beijing biden does then run and HIDE in Ukraine because political fallout is too HOT for his COMPLETE INCOMPETENCE.
Just like Communist harris COMPLETE INCOMPETENCE.
Both of them are 2 peas in a pod.
Puppet biden and laughing kam are not controlling this country. Look to obama and rice they pull the strings.
Your article suggests that no Democrat is able to make a decision that is very important to the Country first and our allies next.
Clearly someone in that Party must step up, take the lead and tell Kamala that she is out, no ifs ands or buts and tell Biden that he is out, too.
There is no other way for the good of the USA.
Will any Democrat show some backbone and leadership for all of us?
Will a bright light, other than Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, Nadler, AOC, Omar and all the others on that side we never want to hear from ever again, step forward and do what must be done?
Please.
Thinking (Harris was) strongly recommended by Obama. Proves how much of a judge of character he is, right? What we have right now is dumb and dumber. Consequences of a very suspicious 2020 election eh!? Along with PA senate election, GA senate election, AZ gubernatorial election and on and on…GOP better wise up to this ballot racketeering . God help us!
They really screwed up with promoting Harris as a viable candidate for anything. They should have vetted her a little more then they would have realized she is too stupid to even follow the most simple of instructions to replace the brain dead Joe.
Does it really matter which one of them is in office? Are they really in control? That might be a good investigative story for you all to look into.
Another story based on a Politico article. Yawn. Seriously, if anyone here is relying on the idiotic reasoning being expressed by one of the biggest propaganda outlets for the Democrat Party, we’re in serious trouble. Politico is one of the biggest, left-leaning news outlets in the country.
Both Biden and Harris were selected by the Democrat Party in 2020, because they checked off enough identity politics boxes that the mind-numb Democrat voters would follow along. All it took was the stamp of approval from Rep. Jim Clyburn for Biden to go from 5th place to 1st place to secure the Democrat nomination. Then the Democrat Party picked Harris to be Joe’s running mate, because she met the only criteria the Democrats cared about. After that, campaigning in 2020 wasn’t an issue for the Biden / Harris ticket, because the Democrat Party and the administrative state inside the Washington, D.C. beltway had everything lined up to ensure the 6 key swing states would go Biden’s way.
Fast forward t0 2024. If Dementia Joe is allowed to run for re-election (a lot can happen between now and then from an inside the beltway perspective), neither the Democrat Party nor the MSM is particularly worried. After all, they just have to rerun the same game plan they used in 2020 to ensure Biden “won” (was given the necessary number of ballots over the course of a few days) to install him yet again in the White House. If the American people continue to tolerate the level of manipulation to place Biden in the White House for another 4 years, then they deserve to be reduced to serfs serving their masters.
Biden and Harris are the worst that have ever held that office.They will go down in the books as the worst and how they put the United States in the worst shape it has been in a long time.
Are the elite in the Democrat Party now sorry for the choices they made ~3 years ago by putting into nomination for President and Vice President the two of the most weak, ridiculous, unhealthy, uncommitted, woke, far left candidates possible??? Gavin Newsom won’t be any better if that’s who you are thinking about for 2024!!!!
ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY!
Anti-Whites say there must be no White countries.
Anti-Whites say there must be no White towns.
Anti-Whites say there must be no neighborhoods.
Anti-Whites say there must be no White anything.
Anti-Whites say there must be no White people.
Immigration = colonization — “diversity” = Fewer White children.
“Multiculturalism” = WHITE GENOCIDE
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.
It isn’t Biden’s age that disqualifies hi, it’s his mental illness. The man doesn’t have a clue what’s happening until one of his handlers tells him. Harris is worthless. Recently she attended a global security conference. She gave a speech emphasizing how concerned she is about the security of Ukraine, but she doesn’t give a damn about the security of the United States’ southern border. Biden appointed her his border Czar shortly after the election and she hasn’t done squat.
The Democrat Party is trying to avoid a situation in which the ship goes down with the captain. Their only clean way out of their Biden/Harris dilemma is to run the same ticket and lose the election in 2024. That gets rid of both Biden and Harris (the co-captains) and preserves the ship (the Democrat Party) to fight again another day. Any attempt to give the co-captains the heave-ho from within will destroy the “ship”. There is little chance that Harris could come back from an electoral defeat in 2024 to become the nominee in 2028 or beyond.
Remember Dan Quayle? Neither does anyone else.
That’s like trying to choose between syphillis or gonorrhea.
Surely the demonrats have a more competent person to run than either of those two morons. He doesn’t even know where he is most the time and she doesn’t have the common sense of a 5 yr old. Let’s hope the GOP wins this round but the dems are so dishonest I’m not holding my breath. We all KNOW Bozo Biden did NOT win he last election.
DemocRAT voters are so dumb and misguided they’d probably vote for a big YELLOW SCHOOL BUS to head the ticket in 2024.
Biden polls at or above 40%, harris in the twenties. All he needs is a manufactured foreign crisis that he, the renowned statesman resolves and zing, hes in till he dies in office. Then we go from a dementia case to a woman whose speech patterns are reminiscent of cheech and chong skits . Anyone recall them from the seventies? Not saying she’s a stoner, just that she sounds like one.
The dems really backed themselves and ultimately the Country into a bad place. They are the ones who pushed to get those two rag tag brainless twits into office. Now we all suffering the consequences.
The reason she sounds like she is talking to 4 year olds is the Democrats she is talking to have the brain power of a 4 year old.
The Democrat, Socialist, Communist, Progressives are totally brain dead, if they think Biden should be re-elected! Come on man – I’m not Joking.
Shaky old Joe Biden is like a demented head of the Mafioso.