Having backed Joe Biden in 2020, they now say renominating the president in 2024 would be “a tragic mistake”
A left-wing fundraising group has launched a campaign demanding that the Democratic Party runs someone else instead of President Joe Biden in 2024. Citing Biden’s low approval rating and the risk of a Republican victory over the incumbent, the group wants a more progressive candidate to usher in “systemic changes.”
RootsAction fundraised for Biden in 2020, after backing progressive stalwart Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party’s primaries, and previously in Sanders’ 2016 campaign.
“While I appreciate the many good things that Biden has proposed – specifically, student debt relief and the American Rescue Plan – I am not confident that Joe Biden is the leader we need to take us into the next term,” New Hampshire state Representative Sherry Frost said in a statement on RootsAction’s website on Wednesday.
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