According to a new report in New York magazine, a faction has emerged within the democratic party
that is worried that both president Biden and vice president Harris are not up to the job of running
again in 2024. And even if Biden were to not run and Harris were to run instead this faction,
again, according to this report in New York magazine, this faction says she would be an
even worse candidate than Biden is. So what this report says is you've got this faction,
which I believe is rather small right now. They're looking at the polls. Polls are not
good for Democrats. Polls are even worse for Biden and Harris, the hypothetical matchups between them
and Donald Trump, Donald Trump is winning easily at this point. It kind of ebbs and flows. But for
the last few months, Trump has remained ahead, uh, against Harris. It's an absolute blood bath,
but against Biden, you know, five, six points, nine points down to four points back up
it's fluctuating, but Trump is remaining ahead.
So basically these Democrats are looking at our two options
and saying, this isn't gonna work. Like we are walking into this mind field
stomping as loudly as possible, knowing that we're not gonna make it out to the other side.
So the report says that this faction is looking elsewhere to try to find a viable candidate to run
instead of Biden or Harrison 2024. Now here's the thing, the report doesn't exactly go into detail
about how big this faction is. So that's a little concerning, right? I mean, a faction could be
four or five people that that's really not influential. That's not exactly newsworthy,
but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that this is a growing group of individuals.
And I give them the benefit of the doubt because I personally would fit into that camp.
I don't think Biden should run again. I don't think Harris should run. She is hugely unpopular.
He is getting more unpopular by the day. This is not a good, powerful,
strong, well liked administration. The Democrats do in fact need somebody else.
But I also understand the fact that this is a bit of a Sophie's choice, right? First of all, if this
other faction is successful and they find somebody who they think can win, but is also willing
to run against the incumbent in a primary, that's not gonna fly.
There is very little chance at all, no matter how much Biden is disliked in the polls,
he's not disliked in the democratic polls. So if you send someone else to run against him in
a democratic primary, that someone else is going to lose and they're going to lose embarrassingly.
But while they're losing, they're also gonna have to be taking shots at Biden to show why
they are the better candidate. And those are shots against Biden that are then
gonna be used against Donald Trump or whoever the Republican nominee is.
So all you're gonna do is hurt Biden even further by picking somebody to run against him. What you
would have to do is convince Biden and Harris, which I think is a Herculean feat to not run.
And I'm sorry, but I just don't think you're gonna be able to do that.
So what do you do? Like I said, it's Sophie's choice.
Do you convince them to drop out then the public's like, oh wow. They must have been
as bad as we thought they were. Maybe we shouldn't trust the Democrats. Do you let
somebody run against them in a primary and go ahead and lob all these attacks
that Republicans latch onto and beat 'em even worse. Or do you run into this
20, 24 election with two hugely unpopular candidate? It's a very unpopular ticket.
I don't see a way out of this and I'm not doing this by the way, to bash the Democrats. This
is the reality in which we live reality. Isn't always flattering to what we want it to be. Right.
But it is reality. And it's something that Democrats do need to start thinking about
because 20, 24 folks, it's a hell of a lot closer than we'd like to think.