WaPo Admits Biden May Not Be Nominee in 2024, Looks to Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris
Rebecca Downs
Posted: Nov 14, 2021 8:00 AM
There's no more pretending that President Joe Biden may not be the Democratic nominee come 2024. Almost 11 months in, the Biden presidency has been catastrophic. The polls are not only finding Biden underwater when it comes to his approval rating, but that even a plurality of Democrats don't want him to run. Other options then may be Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Vice President Kamala Harris, as Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Sean Sullivan wrote for the Washington Post on Saturday.
They weren't even coy in their headline, which read "Harris and Buttigieg under the spotlight amid uncertainty over Biden’s future."
Most of the piece discusses Harris and Buttigieg and their roles in the administration. Biden, who is still the president and has not yet ruled out a run for 2024, is mentioned very little, which is certainly telling.
Still, he does receive some mentions:
For now, at least, Harris and Buttigieg, barrier-breaking Democrats who failed in their initial White House bids, are the highest-profile prospects to succeed Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket in 2024 or 2028, although other promising candidates are all but certain to emerge. Biden has said he plans to run for reelection, but as he nears his 79th birthday, even some of his allies are not sure he will.
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As the sitting vice president and a historic figure, Harris is likely to remain at the center of the conversation about Biden’s successor. But many Democrats increasingly see Buttigieg, the country’s first openly gay Senate-confirmed Cabinet secretary, as part of that conversation as well.
“I expect [Biden] to run again,” said Steve Westly, a California investor and top Biden fundraiser in 2020. “If he doesn’t, I think Harris is clearly the favorite. But I think we’ve got a deep bench. I think people like Secretary Buttigieg. … He now has additional seasoning in a position as secretary of transportation, with a national profile.”
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/11/14/there-is-no-more-pretending-that-biden-might-not-be-nominee-in-2024-n2599065