Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden - The Ezra Klein Show
Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden - The Ezra Klein Show
It requires them to embrace an old-fashioned approach to winning a campaign.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
And then, when he is about to leave, he comes back to take one more question — this one on Israel and Gaza, where he says that America is no longer lock step behind Benjamin Netanyahu’s invasion, and then describing the effort he put in getting President Sisi to open the Egyptian border for aid, he slips.
Democrats keep telling themselves, when they look at the polls, that voters will come back to Biden when the campaign starts in earnest and they begin seeing more of Trump, when they have to take what he is and what it would mean for him to return seriously.
The people whom Biden listens to — Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Mike Donilon, Ron Klain, Nancy Pelosi, Anita Dunn — they need to get him to see this.
I’ve been reading Ed Achorn’s book “The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History.” My favorite line in it comes from Senator Charles Sumner, who sends a welcome note to the delegates, “whose duty it will be to organize victory.”
There is a ton of talent in the Democratic Party right now: Gretchen Whitmer, Wes Moore, Jared Polis, Gavin Newsom, Raphael Warnock, Josh Shapiro, Cory Booker, Ro Khanna, Pete Buttigieg, Gina Raimondo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chris Murphy, Andy Beshear, J.B. Pritzker — the list goes on.
And then in 2025 and 2026, out come the campaign tell-all books, and they’re full of emails and WhatsApp messages between Biden staffers and Democratic leaders, where they’re all saying to each other, this is a disaster, he’s not going to win this, I can’t bear to watch this speech, we’re going to lose.
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According to the US constitution, you have to be at least 45 years of age to run for the presidency. An amendment would be required to change this. So, some of that list doesn't quite qualify.
At any rate, someone decent would have to actually run against him. It seems to me they'd rather wait for 2028 though.
edit: Actual requirement is 35 years of age, not 45. So, nevermind.
You have to be 35. Not 45.
Oh, you're right, thank you. Let me edit.
you need to be 45 before jan20. you can be elected in November at 44