<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1657630971965,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017d-00b6-db7d-abfd-7cb766d10000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1657630971965,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017d-00b6-db7d-abfd-7cb766d10000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_57562161", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1050850"} }); ","_id":"00000181-f281-dab9-a58d-ffa751a60000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedA left-wing group announced it will rally against President Joe Biden receiving the Democratic Party’s nod in 2024 as unease over his performance in office foments in liberal circles.
In 2020, RootsAction sought to appeal to the disgruntled Left to vote for Biden after he clinched the party nod as part of its #VoteTrumpOut initiative, but now it insists “President Biden has been neither bold nor inspiring” and “his prospects for winning re-election appear to be bleak.”
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“In 2024 the United States will face the dual imperatives of preventing a Republican takeover of the White House and advancing a truly progressive agenda,” RootsAction said in a statement. “A president is not his party’s king, and he has no automatic right to renomination. Joe Biden should not seek it. If he does, he will have a fight on his hands.”
RootsAction, which touts an email list of about 1.2 million people, told Politico it plans to dole out six figures on a #DontRunJoe campaign. The group backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in 2020 but later embarked on a six-figure backing Biden to oust then-President Donald Trump from the White House.
Biden has been plagued by dismal poll numbers across the board, hampering Democratic prospects of holding the House heading into the midterm elections. A recent New York Times/Siena College poll pegged Biden’s approval rating at 33%. About two-thirds of Democrats favored an alternative candidate to clinch the party nod. The poll sampled 849 registered voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
But the gloomy polling figures are not the only reason Biden should not be the party’s standard-bearer in 2024, representatives for RootsAction argued, citing his performance in office. The group lamented Biden’s inability to score victories on key causes championed by the Left.
“We’re making this announcement today because the current debate over whether Biden should run again focuses too narrowly on his age and the latest polls,” RootsAction co-founder Jeff Cohen said. “It’s his performance, his inability to fight for working people and stand up against Republican and corporate obstruction, that has us worried about 2024.”
Grumblings about Biden’s performance in office and bleak polling come as the country faces skyrocketing inflation, high prices at the gas pump, soaring crime, concerns about the U.S.-Mexico border, and a myriad of other problems. Additionally, many liberals had hoped for Biden to take more aggressive action in response to the overturning of precedents first established in Roe v. Wade that guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion access nationwide.
Some, such as former President Barack Obama‘s chief political strategist David Axelrod and former White House adviser David Gergen, have also pointed to Biden’s age. Biden, 79, would be 84 at the conclusion of a second term in office.
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The White House has shrugged off such concerns, insisting he will pursue reelection in 2024 and emphasizing that polls are “going to go up and they’re going to go down.”
Nevertheless, some popular figures on the Left, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), have declined to endorse him for reelection. Meanwhile, a growing set of prominent Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), appears to be laying the groundwork for campaigns in 2024.
