With Republicans gearing up for a larger-than-expected candidate field in 2024, what’s going on among Democrats eager to see a real challenge to President Biden?
Well, they won’t be getting one.
According to reports, the Democratic National Committee will sponsor no debates and has worked overtime to tilt the system in Biden’s favor to avoid any embarrassing upsets in early primary states. As some would say, the Democratic Party isn’t democratic at all.
Despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. garnering up to the mid-twenties in polling support against Biden, there will be no debates and no actual competitive primary voting. It will be Joe Biden coronated as the nominee for re-election despite his immense unpopularity and serious concerns over his age.
When asked recently, RFK Jr. pointed out that Biden likely won’t even put his name on the ballot in states where he could face an upset:
Declared 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. suggested during an interview Monday that President Biden wouldn’t be competing in either of the Iowa or New Hampshire primaries, instead choosing to run in a safer presidential primary state like South Carolina.
“My path through the Democratic primary system, I have to win the primaries,” the Democratic contender told Michael Smerconish on SiriusXM when Smerconish asked him about his path toward notching the Democratic nomination.
“I think that President Biden is not going to even put his name in Iowa and New Hampshire. So I think he’s not even going to compete,” Kennedy added.
The anti-vaccine activist said he believed Biden would wait until the South Carolina primaries to compete in a “safer” state than Iowa or New Hampshire.
It’s not even that Kennedy necessarily has a chance, he likely does not, but there’s a deep undemocratic element of announcing Biden as the next nominee despite his obvious flaws and drawbacks.
To help avoid any embarrassing primary upsets, the DNC has rearranged the 2024 calendar to place South Carolina at the front, a state which single-handedly saved Biden’s candidacy back in 2020. Iowa and New Hampshire, for Democrats in 2024, are meaningless beauty contests where no delegates will be awarded if either state strays from the adopted calendar of the DNC rules committee.
In other words, the deck is stacked for Joe Biden and basically no one else. There will be a false veneer of a primary system but it will look more like an election for Saddam Hussein than for a Democratic Party nominee.
It’s an ongoing evolution of the Joe Biden basement strategy from 2020. Stay hidden and rarely engage the press. The buck always stops somewhere else.
None of this suggests that anyone like Kennedy or Marianne Williamson has a real chance even in a genuinely competitive primary, they likely don’t.
Democratic Party voters, however, will never get the opportunity to test that theory.
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