Please Someone Run Against Biden
The following is the transcript of my troop deployment (i.e. ending rant) from episode 90 of my news podcast The Mind Killer. If you like it, please consider subscribing to the podcast
Primary season has started. On the Republican side, the nominee is almost certainly going to be Trump, but that’s because Republican primary voters want Trump. Plenty of people are running against him, but they’re probably all going to fail because Trump is very popular with the people doing the voting.
On the Democrat side, Biden is almost certainly going to be the nominee, but not because the voters actually want him. On the contrary, most Democrats don’t want Biden to run again. Which makes sense! He’s 80 years old. At the end of a second term, he’d be 86. And he’s clearly suffering effects from his age. In 2020, the primary voters elected Biden primarily because they thought he had the best chance to beat Trump. That’s no longer the case. Sorry, but he’s too damn old. Biden’s age will be the story throughout the 2024 election season, and if he loses, that will probably be the reason.
The problem is that nobody will run against him! His top two challengers are confirmed crazy people RFK Jr. and Marianne Williamson, and Biden is still only polling at 64% of likely primary voters. In 2020 the DNC had to hold two separate debates because 20 different people were running. Now it’s crickets. If anyone remotely serious enters the race, they could probably take him down.
I really don’t want to get in the situation where Biden has to debate Trump and he comes across as a senile old man. That will kill him in the election. So please, somebody, run against him. Give me someone like Corey Booker, Jared Polis, or Julian Castro. Andrew Yang could run again on his weird Forward Party platform! Even obvious hacks like Gavin Newsome or Amy Klobuchar would be better candidates than Biden.
So please, let’s have a real primary. If it turns out people actually want Biden, fine! But let’s actually give people a choice.