In an interview with the Guardian from his home base in Burlington, Vermont, Sanders urged the Democratic president to inject more urgency into his bid for re-election. He said that unless the president was more direct in recognising the many crises faced by working-class families his Republican rival would win.

“We’ve got to see the White House move more aggressively on healthcare, on housing, on tax reform, on the high cost of prescription drugs,” Sanders said. “If we can get the president to move in that direction, he will win; if not, he’s going to lose.”

The US senator from Vermont added that he was in contact with the White House pressing that point. “We hope to make clear to the president and his team that they are not going to win this election unless they come up with a progressive agenda that speaks to the needs of the working class of this country.”

Sanders’ warning comes at a critical time in American politics. On Monday, Republicans in Iowa will gather for caucuses that mark the official start of the 2024 presidential election.

Biden faces no serious challenger in the Democratic primaries. But concern is mounting over how he would fare against Trump given a likely rematch between them in November.

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (48 children)

Unfortunately the way I see it is Biden will lose for two reasons:

  1. Hes old af
  2. Inflation

Regardless of policies or how terrible the alternative is. I dont think most people are going to think much past "Things are expensive now, and oh great a super old white dude".

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Love how they can blame inflation on Joe Brandon, but they refused to blame 45 for anything for 4 years.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Different types of people. Its a shame Democrats have such an uphill battle to rally around candidates because those voters hold their leaders accountable, almost to a fault. The republican voter base is made of people who are basically in a cult, or are one issue voters.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Love how they can blame inflation on Joe Brandon, but they refused to blame 45 for anything for 4 years.

    Because the Dems were not yelling that from the rooftops like they should have been, so perception is set as that it's Biden's fault.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Inflation started under Trump and Trump is just as old

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Inflation started under Trump and Trump is just as old

    That's not the perception though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Just pointing out the facts. If you’re falling for some perception then you are the problem because not only are you not paying attention but you have no concept of history or facts.

    Unfortunately this country is filled to the brim with people that are clueless, can’t remember what happened yesterday, and are misled by media to believe whatever nonsense they are gaslighting today.

    So ultimately you are right but people need to be reminded that Trump was front and center of all of this inflation instead of blaming someone that came in after the damage was already done.

    With all of this said, why would anyone look at Biden and say “oh just another old white dude”, but not come to the same conclusion with Trump? They are both old white dudes. So where are you getting this from? This is YOUR perception.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The bare minimum job requirement to being a politician is getting elected. If democrats can't nail messaging like republicans then that's on them, not on the average voter. Inflation didn't really ramp up until trump left office and even though his actions contributed to this ramp up, the effects weren't felt in full force until after he left. So what happens if you run on "we're not trump"? People think back to the trump years, and other than when covid hit (which people can excuse as not the fault of the president), the economy seemed to be doing great, and there certainly wasn't as big of an inflation problem as now.

    Also, democrats had multiple candidates running in 2020 who weren't "another old white dude" but they asked all the candidates they could to clear the way for biden because they needed to focus their efforts to defeat their most feared enemy: Bernie Sanders.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    His first play will be cannabis being decriminalized.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Man I would love to see this, but its one of those things that I will believe when I see. I hope I have to eat my words on that too. Even if so, I dont think decriminalization would mean much to people in terms of getting out to vote. Most people who are really passionate about this over other issues have had the states handle it for them already. Dems waited too long for Federal Decriminalization to be a big motivator in a national election in my opinion.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Agreed. Dems like to save popular law changes to package with other utterly deplorable actions.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They also divy it up so that it's not really a victory. "We legalized weed*!"

    * For everyone over the age of 65, anybody who was born rich, if you own three patagonia jackets and people who attended an invitation only dinner with a bunch of billionaires.

    Then moderates turn around and whine "Why doesn't anyone give credit to Democrats for all the good they've done???"

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