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Democrats Sound The Alarm, They Want Someone New In 2024

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A growing number of top Democratic Party leaders and insiders are growing increasingly convinced that President Joe Biden cannot win reelection in 2024.

As such, they want someone else at the top of the ticket.

According to The New York Times, the Democratic angst comes as the political landscape increasingly looks like Republicans are set for potentially historic gains during the 2022 midterms in November amid spiking inflation that features near-daily record highs for gasoline and diesel fuel coupled with major food and housing price increases.

Democratic National Committee (DNC) member Steve Simeonidis told the paper that Biden ought to step aside and allow someone else to take the reigns in 2024.

“To say our country was on the right track would flagrantly depart from reality,” he told the paper. “[Biden] should announce his intent not to seek re-election in ’24 right after the midterms.”

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

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While most top Democrats would not speak ill of Biden on the record and they are grateful that he managed to knock off former President Donald Trump, many of them also believe that he cannot successfully win reelection.

A majority of those who did speak publicly expressed concern about the 79-year-old president’s age; he’ll be 82 by the next election.

“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, told the paper.

“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.”

The push to push aside Biden did not begin recently. Last fall, amid a series of missteps and following the disastrous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, Dem voters began calling for him to step aside.

“Vice President Kamala Harris and former first lady Michelle Obama are the top two picks for the Democratic presidential nomination if President Biden decides not to seek re-election in 2024,” the New York Post reported, citing a Hill-HarrisX poll.

“Harris leads all potential candidates with 13 percent of support from voters, while Obama came in a close second with 10 percent,” the outlet continued, adding:

Other likely candidates included Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and former 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang. 

They all received 5 percent or less in support from registered voters. 

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In fact, a plurality of U.S. voters want Democrat President Joe Biden out of office in 2022 as his approval rating continues to fall to new lows, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University survey released earlier in November.

The following month, another survey found that a majority of respondents wanted to see a return of Trump’s policies, as inflation began to take hold in earnest.

The poll was sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, ALG Research, and the firm Fabarazio Lee, and conducted between November 16 and November 22.

The Daily Wire reported:

Voters were asked, “Regardless of how you may feel personally about each man, would you rather continue pursuing Joe Biden’s policies and proposals or return to Donald Trump’s policies and proposals?” According to the survey, 46% said they somewhat or strongly wanted to continue Biden’s policies while 48% said that they somewhat or strongly wanted to return to Trump’s policies.

When asked, “Specifically, would you say that the economy is going in the right direction or headed in the wrong direction?” a whopping 61% of voters said it was going in the “wrong direction.”

In terms of favorability rating, Biden eeks out Trump with a 43% favorability rating compared to the former president’s 41%, but both are tied at 54% unfavorable.

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