Who will tell Biden? The dread of 2024 - with A.B. Stoddard

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🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Many Democratic activists, strategists, donors, officeholders, and party leaders are privately discussing the weaknesses of President Biden's candidacy, heading into what now appears to be a very competitive 2024 election. But is anyone telling President Biden? Is anyone credible and viable willing to challenge President Biden for the Democratic nomination? We are constantly told that American democracy hangs in the balance. Wouldn't this be the time? These are some of the topics we discuss with A.B. Stoddard, long-time Washington, DC journalist (currently with the Bulwark, formerly with The Hill and Real Clear Politics). Read A.B.'s piece that we discuss in this episode: "To Beat Trump, Democrats Need a Whitmer-Warnock Ticket" https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/to-beat-trump-democrats-need-whitmer-warnock

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0:00.0	The company line is hold the line.
0:02.8	Everybody trusts that a year from now,
0:06.9	Biden's going to be strong enough to actually campaign.
0:11.1	They're pretending that they will trot him out, run him around, everything will be normal,
0:17.2	he'll give interviews, he'll interact with people in ways that, okay, he does not right now because he can't.
0:24.3	It just, it's, it's nonsense. These days every time I speak to friends of mine who are Democrats, whether they're
0:41.1	professional Democrats like
0:42.5	strategist or party leaders or donors or activists,
0:46.9	and I asked them about Joe Biden as the party's nominee
0:50.4	heading to 2024, I get a look of despair. It's as though every one of them
0:56.0	recognizes that President Biden should not be the nominee in 2024 but who's willing to take the risk and play the role that
1:04.3	Eugene McCarthy played in 1968 to be the challenger to an incumbent
1:09.2	Democratic president? These are some of the questions I have today for AB Stoddard. A long time
1:15.1	Washington journalist who's been at the hill for a number of years where I first
1:19.0	started reading her years ago, then at rear clear politics, now she's at the bulwark, the news and analysis site, and
1:25.6	she recently wrote a piece for the bulwark in which she laid out that the Democratic
1:29.6	bench in her eyes is quite strong. tapping into that bench you could create a very
1:35.8	compelling Democratic ticket in 2024 that is not Biden Harris but who's working on
1:42.1	this who's willing to tell Joe Biden this?
1:45.6	So these are some of the questions I had for AB Stoddard is I had an external
1:49.6	conversation based on many of the internal private conversations that many Democrats seem to be having with one another.
1:57.0	Before the conversation with AB, just one housekeeping note,
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