Doubts vanish as Democrats unite over Biden's 2024 bid: 'He will win'

[KPN]

House Democrats issues’ conference sees lawmakers across party’s ideological spectrum embrace idea of president’s re-election.

As Biden prepares to formally launch his campaign in the coming weeks, he appears set to enter the 2024 contest with the enthusiastic and unified backing of his congressional allies.

“I think he will win. I think he’s our strongest candidate,” Congressman Pete Aguilar, the House Democratic caucus chair from California, said on Thursday at an event with Punchbowl News. Aguilar added: “I think that he can and should run, and he’s going to have the support of the House Democratic caucus.”

That sentiment was echoed by progressive leaders in the House, who have occasionally clashed with Biden over policy matters. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), said on Thursday that she hopes Biden will announce his re-election campaign sooner rather than later. Citing Biden’s efforts to address the climate crisis and raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and corporations, Jayapal complimented the president on delivering results for his supporters. “He’s been faithful to his electorate that elected him – to progressives who turned out in key states like Georgia and Arizona, movements that did that and the ideas that drove them,” Jayapal said.

House Democrats showed little interest in considering another candidate for 2024, instead arguing that Biden would be an asset in their efforts to recapture the majority next year. Republicans currently represent 18 House districts that Biden carried in 2020, as several Democratic leaders noted at the issues conference, and they believe the president’s re-election campaign could help the party swing those seats.

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[link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/04/joe-biden-2024-campaign-democrats-united|

[LakeArenal]

1. Kept a screen shot to post with the next poll that says the opposite.

Tired of the “someone else” polls.

Biden will run. Win and succeed

[KPN]

3. Good idea! Yep, the polls are entirely meaningless. Joe will get the nomination

and when he does, all those naysayers will get behind him. I have no doubts about that.

To be honest, I wasn't a Biden supporter in the 2020 primary, but I always liked him going back to his first run for the nomination in 1988. I especially admired his personal style and moxie. But he has way surpassed my expectations and did so pretty much right out the chute after he won the nomination as well as in his first months as President. And he's only gotten better and politically stronger in my view since. We'd be foolish to entertain anyone else so long as he is willing. He's a fighter. The fact that he's President in the first place is testimony to that. There really should be no doubts that Joe can "finish the job".

[Walleye]

7. I have loved Joe for a long time, and he has exceeded my expectations. So there you are

I’m sort of in awe of the way he can turn other people’s underestimating of him into powerful victories

[The Magistrate]

2. It's Quite An Easy Calculation, Sir

No Good Can Come Of Running A Primary Challenge To Your Incumbent President.


If the challenger loses, as will be most likely, the other side will have been supplied an attack script they can colorably claim represents real, bi-partisan concerns with your party's candidate for President.

Should the challenger win, the one thing he or she cannot run on is the record of the defeated incumbent. If that is so poor this is no forfeit, or even perhaps of benefit, matters are so dire the incumbent party is going to lose, from top to bottom, regardless. Nothing will be gained, and the down-ticket damage likely will be worse.

Should Mr. Biden decide not to run, that is one thing. Should he decide to run, anyone opposing him needs denunciation in the most strenuous terms....

[KPN]

4. Absolutely. Let alone Joe is probably the best person for the job in these times regardless.

[Walleye]

8. Yess! Let's finish the job!

[secondwind]

5. K&R for Joe, all the way!

[peggysue2]

6. If Biden runs, he will be the favorite with all the advantages of an incumbent

Trump squandered his advantage, along with everything else. Running a primary opponent against POTUS would be political suicide for both the Democratic Party and the country. All it would accomplish is splitting the party wide open, something the fascists would openly cheer.

Congresswoman Jayapal hits it right on the nose--Biden has been faithful to his electorate and to our allies abroad. His accomplishments are genuinely impressive in an atmosphere of purposeful, Republican chaos.

If we want to win and Joe Biden wants to run? He's our guy.