Staff Reports
A scribe from The New York Times is sounding off, telling President Joe Biden to hit the bricks and let someone more vibrant snatch the coveted Oval Office seat in 2024.
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Columnist Ross Douthat is all riled up, pointing to Biden’s senior status as the prime reason for him not to throw his hat in the ring for re-election. Special Counsel Robert Hur’s blazing report called Biden “a kindly old geezer with a dodgy memory” who can’t recall important names, dates, or happenings to save his life.
“Joe Biden has no business running for re-election. I saw that coming from a mile away, way before the special prosecutor’s remarks about the president’s memory slip-ups got folks worked up about his age,” griped Douthat. “The real head-scratcher is how Biden should make his exit.”
He didn’t hold back against those defending the 81-year-old’s cognitive decline, insisting that just because he’s made it this far doesn’t mean the next four years are in the bag.
“Claiming Biden can hold the top job for the next 11 months is a far cry from arguing he can effectively campaign for a repeat performance,” Douthat continued.
Even The NYT described Biden as a “political disaster” following an eleventh-hour press powwow that hammered the final nail in the coffin of his crumbling health.
“The vibe the president gives off in public isn’t so much senility as it is sheer fragility, like a lightbulb that flickers as long as you keep it dim,” he sniped.
Douthat suggested Biden should amass pledged delegates until August instead of tossing in the towel, while the parties carry on with their primaries.
He then dished out advice for the president to “toss in the towel” for the 2024 race at the Democratic National Convention this summer and have the delegates “pick his stand-in.”
Douthat also took a swipe at Biden’s “abysmal vice-presidential pick,” scoffing that Kamala Harris would surely crash and burn against former President Trump— who appears to be a shoo-in for the 2024 GOP torchbearer.
“[H] e’d be setting himself up for a tale of identity politics gone sour — an aging White commander-in-chief throws the first woman-of-color veep under the bus — and leaving his party to wallow in months of melodrama, scandal, and backstabbing,” the column scribbler groused, arguing that not throwing his weight behind Harris would add more fuel to the fire.
An ABC News/Ipsos survey found 86 percent of folks think Biden is too long in the tooth to pull another four years in office, a spike from 74 percent of respondents who felt the same in September.
