Commentary: Does Biden benefit if foreign policy dominates the 2024 campaign?
Conventional wisdom suggests Americans know little about foreign policy and care about it even less. Opinion polls regularly show that international issues take a back seat to topics more prosaic (economics, education) or provocative (culture wars, gun control).
Next year’s presidential election, however, might be a bit different. Continued international crises could focus attention on the benefits and burdens of American global leadership, and our polarized politics may turn on battles and events far from home. We might experience the rare phenomenon: a foreign policy election.
Israel’s war against Hamas has become a domestic Ukraine’s war aims are “out of reach,” and call on Washington to encourage Ukraine to pursue a cease-fire.
