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In an article published Tuesday, Washington Post columnist Max Boot argued that despite President Biden’s poor polling, age and mistakes in office, the Democratic Party has no better alternative to run in 2024.
Boot opened his latest column with an assessment of Biden’s presidency, insisting it’s not as bad as the polls suggest. “Yet even as the perception that Biden is too old and too out of it has taken root, he has been quietly amassing an impressive list of legislative accomplishments.”
“Biden could turn out to be a more formidable candidate in 2024, if he runs again, than he appears right now,” Boot said.
Biden is currently so unpopular within his own party that 75% of Democratic voters want a different candidate for president in 2024.
President Joe Biden remains the Democrats’ best candidate for the 2024 election, Washington Post columnist Max Boot argued Tuesday.
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The columnist mentioned those legislative accomplishments, including getting Democrats to pass a “$1.9 trillion economic stimulus package, a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill,” and “the most significant (though still insufficient) gun legislation in three decades,” not to mention Biden’s assurance. an “unexpected deal with Sen. Joe Manchin III (DW.Va.)” to pass a deficit reduction and clean energy bill.
Boot slammed critics who have mocked Biden’s “devotion to bipartisanship,” claiming he is “vindicating himself.”
The author touted Biden’s foreign policy successes, despite his stumble over the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. “He has been unwavering in mobilizing an international coalition to support Ukraine and sanction Russia,” the columnist noted, praising Biden for presiding over “The death of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al- Zawahiri in a US drone strike”.
In light of these political achievements, Boot stated, “This is hardly the record of a senile septuagenarian.” He claimed that Biden’s unpopularity is because “inflation is at a 40-year high” and mentioned that it is not primarily the president’s fault. “But while Biden may have contributed to the inflationary spiral with an overly generous stimulus bill, he does not deserve most of the blame for what is a global phenomenon,” he wrote.
It’s not Biden’s politics that’s the problem according to Boot, it’s his failures in “communication.” “Biden has made less effective use of the bully pulpit than any president since George HW Bush, another longtime Washington insider, and we know what happened to him in 1992.”
Additionally, Boot acknowledged that Biden’s age is a “major” weakness: “He would be 82 at the start of a second term,” the columnist wrote.
In his Post column, Boot claimed that Biden was “amassing an impressive list of legislative accomplishments.” (Photo: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Despite these weaknesses, Boot asserted that “it’s far from clear that Democrats have a better alternative. Biden won the nomination in 2020 not because he excited anyone, but because he was seen as the least bad option. That could still be true.”
If Biden were to withdraw, “Vice President Harris would be the prohibitive favorite for the nomination,” Boot wrote, though he noted that “he’s just as unpopular as Biden and, unlike him, doesn’t have much experience to draw on.” . on.” He also claimed it would be “vulnerable to sexist, nativist and racist attacks from Republicans.”
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He criticized other potential 2024 candidates, stating: “Many of Harris’ potential competitors, for example Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, failed, like her, to win over voters Democrats in 2020, and it’s not clear that they would do better in 2024,” he concluded.
Boot also mentioned that Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif. and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., “intriguing outsiders,” “could be formidable competitors,” but “since they’ve never run national campaigns before, they could easily fall flat with voters outside their home states.”
Boot declared that if any of these candidates challenged Biden, “it would be tantamount to handing the White House to an increasingly deranged Republican Party. The primary challenges to incumbents in 1968, 1976, 1980, and 1992 led to defeat of his party.”
Boot concluded his article, stating, “Democrats could try to persuade Biden not to seek re-election and make way for a new generation. But before party elders urge the aging president to retire, they should give serious thought to the possibility of him being the same. worst Democratic candidate except for all the others.”
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Boot argued that President Joe Biden’s “experience” makes him a better candidate for 2024 than the rest of the Democratic candidates. (Fox News)
Gabriel Hays is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @gabrieljhays.