The Democratic Party should not risk embarrassing or imperiling the country by re-nominating President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, according to a former Republican columnist.
In an article published in The Washington Post, conservative columnist George Will — who left the Republican Party in 2016 — wrote, “During this autumn’s avalanche of political news, an enormous boulder bounced by, barely noticed.”
“It demonstrated why Joe Biden should not seek another term. Democrats should promptly face that fact, and this one: An Everest of evidence shows that Vice President Harris is starkly unqualified to be considered as his successor,” he continued.
The “boulder” he referred to was a moment last month when Biden claimed he got his student loan cancellation passed “by a vote or two.”
“No. He. Did. Not,” Will wrote. “Biden was not merely again embellishing his achievements. This is not just another of his verbal fender benders. There is no less-than-dismaying explanation for his complete confusion. What vote? Who voted?”
By contrast, the columnist noted the student debt plan came after the administration repeatedly put a pause on debt payments. And, “Biden unilaterally implemented the windfall for millions of voters. Congress was not involved in this cataract of money from the Treasury, in violation of the Constitution’s appropriations clause.”
“It is frightening that Biden does not know, or remember, what he recently did regarding an immensely important policy. He must be presumed susceptible to future episodes of similar bewilderment. He should leave the public stage on Jan. 20, 2025,” Will argued.
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But he did not stop after just saying Biden should not run again. He also said Harris should not run in 2024 either.
“Transcripts of her verbal meanderings cannot convey their eerie strangeness. Videos of them should be watched,” Will insisted.
He listed several examples of the vice president’s “verbal meanderings.”
One example was from an international conference earlier this year when she said, “We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues, to tackle these challenges, and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules and agreements, that we will convene to work together.”
He also pointed out when she said the part of the Inflation Reduction Act she is most excited about is money for electric school buses.
“I have a particular fondness, I must tell you, for electric school buses. I love electric school buses,” the vice president said.
Will torched Harris as he wrote, “Enough. She sounds, as a critic has said, like someone giving a book report on a book she has not read. Her style betrays a self-satisfied exaggeration of her aptitudes. Lacking natural talent, she needs to prepare, but evidently doesn’t. Complacency and arrogance make a ruinous compound.”
“Regarding Biden and Harris, the national Democratic Party faces two tests of stewardship: Its imprimatur cannot again be bestowed on either of them. Biden is not just past his prime; even adequacy is in his past. And this is Harris’s prime,” the column continued.
Finally, Will added, “In 2024, the Republican Party might present the nation with a presidential nominee whose unfitness has been demonstrated. After next Tuesday’s sobering election results, Democrats should resolve not to insult and imperil the nation by doing likewise.”