(Headline USA) Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said this week that President Joe Biden should run for reelection in 2024 despite his record-low approval ratings among both political parties.
During an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday, Warren was asked about a new CNN poll that found 75% of Democrats would prefer a different candidate to be the nominee for president in 2024, and whether Biden should run again in light of this reality.
“Yes, Joe Biden should be running again – he is running,” Warren said.
“I want to say this, I’ll give you those sentences, we’ve got to stop the catnip about 2024,” she continued.
“We are 100 days out from the midterm. And what happens in 2022, two more Democratic senators and we can get rid of the filibuster. And we can actually protect voting rights. We can make Roe v. Wade the law of the land. We can do even more on the climate crisis. We can actually make gun safety a priority.”
MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan said he understood her point, but said Democrats can’t afford to ignore Biden’s “bad numbers.”
“We can do enormous good for the American people and that puts us in a position in 2024 where we have more opportunities to win,” Warren continued. “If we start getting tangled up on 2024, and fail to pay attention to business in 2022, that is not only going to hurt us in 2022, it is going to bite us on the rear end in 2024.”
Warren’s comments come after several high-profile progressives have refused to say whether they’d back Biden for another term. Both Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Cori Bush, D-Mo., declined to say whether they agreed with Biden’s decision to run again.
“I don’t want to answer that question because we have not — that’s not — yeah, I don’t want to answer that question,” Bush said this week.
“I mean, he’s the president. He has the right to run for a second term, absolutely. But I don’t want to … I’d rather you not ask that question.”
