Democratic Challengers Join 2024 Race As Biden's Approval Drops

Two more Democrats have entered the Presidential race in the past few weeks, with both of them saying that President Biden doesn’t appear to have a path to victory next year. But will the Democratic Party actually hold a primary – Or maybe even a debate so that the public can hear from these other choices? Don’t hold your breath on that one. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Two more Democrats have entered the presidential race in the past few weeks with both of them saying that President Biden doesn't appear to have a path to victory next year by any stretch of the imagination. But will the Democratic Party actually hold a primary, or maybe even a debate so the public can see how bad the Democrats are in trouble? What do you think? They gonna have a debate? We're gonna let Biden defend himself in a debate against the folks out there running?

I would love to see it. Honestly, we have more than one Democrat running for president. So the Democrats need to have debates. Hell, even the Republicans who know that Trump is their nominee no matter what, they're still holding debates. I think we got another one coming up.

As crazy as they are, they're debates.

Yeah. At least people get to see, hey, there's what's his name and who's his face. But with the Democratic side, we have to get away from tradition almost. And tradition is, oh, well, they're the incumbent. They get it no matter what. Stop thinking that way. Just because you did it a way for X number of years doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. And I'm not even saying that I'm endorsing Cenk or Dean Phillips here, or Marianne Williamson, I like all these folks. I mean, obviously we have a close relationship with Cenk Uygur.

Well, Cenk is a personal friend. Okay.

Exactly.

But you know what he says? He says, look, I have to do this. I have to do this because if I don't do this, we're not ever gonna, nobody's going to stop and think, can we win with Biden? That's what he's doing here. He's taking it on the chin. He doesn't, his interest is to get people to pay attention to what the hell's happened to the Democratic party. You know, he was with MSNBC during the same time I was doing shows with, as a commentator with Ed Schultz. You remember Ed Schultz. And so he left. He left because he says, I want to tell, I wanna be critical of Democrats when they do things wrong. And they wouldn't let him do it. He said Hillary was a bad choice. He was beating up on Hillary. He was beating up on TPP. He was beating up on the things that needed to be addressed. Okay. And so they said, well, we can't have that. We gotta get rid of you. So now he's saying, I can at least do this. I can run for president and I can create some energy around the idea that the Democrats are driving themselves off a cliff. Right? That's what he's doing.

Right. And he's also pointing out, and I think Dean Phillips has pointed this out too, listen, we're not out of time yet. We can still do this. We can still have another option. Now, two months from now, that's not gonna be the case. We will be out of time. But when we're looking at a president who has a 37% approval rating, and who is, I guess, statistically tied with a man facing 91 felony counts in four jurisdictions. How can you be tied with that and think that you're okay? I mean, are.

You're an incumbent president, an incumbent president, and you're tied with, in most every state in the union. And you're saying, oh, it's okay. And Dean Phillips is saying, and Dean Phillips, let me just say, he is 100%, everything Biden has wanted, whether it's the border, whether it's the economy, he's voted 100% with Biden, and he still says, it's creepy. This guy's creepy. I don't think I can go the distance and say that, yeah, he's gonna be our next president.