The Extremely Obvious Case for Joe Biden in 2024
I’m old enough to remember when the media buried the Biden presidency. That is to say, I was around two months ago.
On June 11, The New York Times ran a story with the provocative headline: “Should Biden Run in 2024? Democratic Whispers of ‘No’ Start to Rise.” The piece appeared on the front page of the print edition, and quickly kicked off a weeks-long frenzy of fevered speculation over who should replace the sitting president on his own party’s ticket. Politico reported that a progressive group was preparing a campaign to pressure Joe Biden not to run. Slate ranked nine different Democratic politicians who could replace him. The Washington Post listed 18. My colleague Conor Friedersdorf solicited 20 such recommendations from Atlantic readers. And the less said about Twitter’s predictable meltdown, the better.
The full-fledged anti-Biden freak-out culminated in a , which found that 64 percent of Democrats wanted someone else to run for president in 2024. To many, this was the
