Both the president and his reelection campaign are going after his coup-attempting predecessor even before the first GOP primary ballots are cast.
A full year out from the 2024 presidential election and nearly two months before Republicans cast their first primary ballots, President Joe Biden and his campaign are assuming that Donald Trump will be his opponent and have already started reminding voters why they threw him out of office in the first place.
Biden personally has stepped up criticism of his coup-attempting predecessor and is framing the likely rematch as one that will determine the survival of American democracy.
“The same man who said we should terminate the rules and regulations and articles of the Constitution — these are things he said — is now running on a plan to end democracy as we know it,” he said last week at a fundraiser in Chicago.
“This next election is different. It’s more important. There’s more at stake. And we all know why: Because our very democracy is at stake,” he told a San Francisco audience on Wednesday.
No, your ballot will have, among other candidates besides those two, an option to vote for anyone that has registered as a candidate.
With First Past The Post voting like we have, no it really won’t. Third parties currently serve as speedbumps, not actual options - they exist purely to pull votes away, not garner actual power. If you’re suggesting some sort of grassroots “vote third party” campaign that inserts, I dunno, AOC as president, I’ll remind you that in living memory, lots of groups have tried. Nader ran the last really successful third-party campaign in 2000, and still only pulled just 2.7% of the vote. Nobody wants to vote third-party, and it’s in large part because they don’t actually advertise, they don’t try to put their candidates out there realistically, and they don’t run realistic candidates anymore at ANY level of politics.