Biden or Bust

Despite a striking incongruity between Democratic voters’ desire to move on to another candidate and the party establishment’s continuing embrace of Joe Biden, no one seems to be buying “Biden or Bust.”

At last weekend’s recent Democratic power broker campaign-style rally, “serious dissent or discontentment with Biden was almost impossible to find,” writes James Freeman, “even after hours at the hotel bar, where alcohol and opinions flowed freely.”

Biden 2024

Rank-and-file Democrats have been singing a very different tune.

According to the Associated Press:

Most Democrats say no thank you,” is the headline on an Associated Press story from Josh Boak and Hannah Fingerhut. They report on the latest in a series of polls showing that Democrats want someone other than Biden to lead their party:

A majority of Democrats now think one term is plenty for President Joe Biden, despite his insistence that he plans to seek reelection in 2024.

That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that shows just 37% of Democrats say they want him to seek a second term, down from 52% in the weeks before last year’s midterm elections . . .

A majority of Democrats still approve of the job Biden is doing as president, yet their appetite for a reelection campaign has slipped despite his electoral track record.