by Frank Holmes, reporter
Democrats sound confident about winning the 2024 presidential election, but their actions show the Democratic Party is panicking, from the lowest operative in New Hampshire to the president of the United States.
They’re not just worried President Joe Biden will lose in 2024; they’re worried his losing streak will begin with the first election in the Democratic primary elections.
Joe Biden just got a full-blown challenger for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination: Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn. Democrats are afraid he’s going to win the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary for many reasons—including the fact that Joe Biden isn’t even on the ballot.
It’s all Biden’s fault for giving in to his party’s Woke base.
Democrats have complained for years that the first two states in the primaries—Iowa and New Hampshire—are too small and not “diverse” enough. The Democratic Party agreed to make South Carolina, with its large minority population, the first primary it recognizes.
But New Hampshire state law requires the Granite State to hold a primary earlier than any other state, so it went forward with its traditional schedule.
To punish New Hampshire, and kowtow to the party’s CRT-spouting base, Biden refused to put his name on the state’s primary ballot.
Enter Dean Phillips.
The Minnesota Democrat is not skipping the New Hampshire primary—or toning down his criticism of Joe Biden.
When asked if he’s running for president, Phillips replied, “I am. I have to.”
Biden stands no chance of winning the election, Phillips said. “Believe me, there are literally hundreds in Congress who would say the same thing. But they simply won’t f***ing say a word.”
Phillips hoped someone with a higher profile—like California Gov. Gavin Newsom or Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer—would decide to run against Biden, but he’s willing to hold their place until they make up their minds.
“I will not sit still. I will not be quiet in the face of numbers that are so clearly saying we’re going to be facing an emergency next November,” Phillips continued.
🚨 Democrat Congressman Dean Phillips announces he’s running for President against Joe Biden: “I will not be quiet in the face of numbers that are so clearly saying we’re going to be facing an emergency next November.”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 27, 2023
Outwardly, Democrats laugh off Phillips’ candidacy. When reporters asked White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre about Biden’s primary challenger, she thanked “the congressman for voting with the president almost 100% of the time in the last two years.”
But privately they’re scrambling to make sure Phillips doesn’t actually win the New Hampshire primary.
New Hampshire Democrats have launched a write-in campaign for Joe Biden, hoping they can gin up enough interest to spare the incumbent serious embarrassment… and they’ve called out the state’s big guns.
“The write-in effort is being helmed by former New Hampshire Democratic Party chairwoman Kathy Sullivan, former state gubernatorial candidate Colin Van Ostern, and longtime campaign strategist Jim Demers,” reports the Washington Examiner.
Strong primary challengers—especially in New Hampshire—have sunken the re-elections of unpopular incumbents for generations. Pat Buchanan’s strong second-place showing in 1992 forecast a strong independent movement that threw its support behind Ross Perot that November. Ted Kennedy’s primary challenge showed how few people supported Jimmy Carter in 1980. Ronald Reagan nearly defeated President Gerald Ford in 1976. Senator Eugene McCarthy’s second-place finish in New Hampshire in 1968 convinced Robert F. Kennedy Sr. to get into the presidential race—and Lyndon Johnson to drop out.
Joe Biden, who’s wanted to be president since he entered politics, doesn’t know much about history, but he knows how these elections turned out.
The Democrats are also stepping up their campaign to smash Biden’s candidacy. Some have criticized Phillips for employing the “Never Trump” Republican Steve Schmidt, a co-founder of The Lincoln Project, as a campaign advisor.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., attacked Phillips’ candidacy, saying, “I don’t get what Dean Phillips is doing except trying to advance Dean Phillips somehow.”
And panicked Democrats have accused Phillips of their old standby: racism.
Dean Phillips is “not respecting the wishes of the titular head of our Party and the loyalties of some of our Party’s most reliable constituents,” said Clyburn.
The over-the-top accusation is just one more bit of proof that Phillips’ candidacy has Democrats’ teeth chattering.
“Although Representative Dean Phillips’s chances of unseating Biden are slim, they’re not zero,” said The New Republic, a liberal Democratic magazine.
They’re not wrong to be worried. Biden’s approval rating is just 37 percent—tied with his all-time lowest—and his approval among Democrats is at the lowest point of his presidency, according to a Gallup poll released last week. A Public Religion Research Institute poll found nearly two out of three Democrats and independents who lean toward the Democratic Party say they would prefer the Democrats nominate someone other than Joe Biden for president in 2024.
American voters don’t just seem nervous about Biden’s policies: An AP/NORC Center for Public Research poll released in August found that 77 percent of Americans say Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president for four more years—including 69 percent of Democrats. The poll shows “much of the public oddly united in sizing up the one trait Biden cannot change,” reports the Associated Press.
Biden has only gotten—and appeared—older since then. That alone benefits any primary challenger under the age of 80.
With Joe Biden in office, Democrats got their first taste of running an administration without any real leader. They don’t want Dean Phillips, or anyone else, interfering with that.
The only people who can stop liberals from running wild in the West Wing are voters—and Democrats are deathly afraid they’re going to do just that.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”