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Commentary: What about a Manchin-Sinema ticket in 2024?
by Marc A. Thiessen Nov 18, 2021 1
3 min to read

It’s hard to screw up being vice president. George H.W. Bush famously
said he attended so many funerals that the job description might as well
be: “You die, I fly.”

But after just 10 months in office, Kamala Harris has managed to make
herself the least popular vice president at this point in at least 50 years.

President Joe Biden’s approval has plummeted to just 36% in the recent
Quinnipiac poll — which puts his approval lower than Donald Trump’s
all-time low in the RealClearPolitics average.

But Harris’s popularity is even worse. In a recent Suffolk
University-USA Today poll that put Biden’s popularity at a measly 37.8%,
Harris ran 10 points lower at 27.8%. Those are depths of unpopularity
even Trump never plumbed.

Usually, a vice president’s poll numbers don’t matter that much. But
with Biden struggling in the polls, Harris is supposed to be the
Democrats’ backup plan for 2024.

Already, nearly two-thirds of Americans, according to the Suffolk
University-USA Today poll, say they don’t want Biden to run for a second
term — and they increasingly believe he is not physically or mentally up
to the job.

A new Politico-Morning Consult poll finds half the country does not
believe that Biden is in good health — a massive 29-point shift from
October 2020, when voters believed he was healthy by a 19-point margin.

And a 48% plurality say he is not mentally fit to be president. Last
October, voters believed he was mentally fit by a 21-point margin. If
this many Americans have lost confidence in the president’s cognitive
abilities after just 10 months of watching him in action, imagine what
it will be like in three years when he has to stand for reelection?

So, the jockeying to replace Biden has already begun. And that means the
knives have come out for Harris, with rivals and their supporters
planting hit pieces on her in the media.

CNN recently reported: “Worn out by what they see as entrenched
dysfunction and lack of focus, key West Wing aides have largely thrown
up their hands at Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff — deciding
there simply isn’t time to deal with them right now.”

Harris’s camp, in turn, is publicly grousing that she’s been set up for
failure, assigned to manage Biden’s self-inflicted crisis at the
southern border, and charged with passing a partisan federal election
law that is highly popular with the base but has zero chance of being
enacted.

The problem for Democrats is there are no good alternatives to Biden.
Ask yourself: Why did Democrats nominate Biden in the first place?

He is the oldest man ever elected president — older on the day he took
office than Ronald Reagan was on the day he left office. He won by
hiding in his basement and ceding the public stage to Trump, who
alienated enough Americans to give Democrats the White House.

Democrats spent the entire 2020 primary season searching for an
acceptable alternative to Biden and could not find one. They ultimately
settled on him because he was the “least bad” choice — an inoffensive,
genial moderate who was least likely to drive away swing voters tired of
Trump but wary of the Democrats’ leftward turn.

Well, less than a year into his presidency, Biden’s popularity is in
free fall, his vice president and presumed heir is less popular than he
is, and there are still no viable alternatives.

Most of the potential 2024 candidates being discussed are 2020 also-rans
who failed to connect with voters in the Democratic primaries.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is trying to raise his profile
by taking false credit for the Biden administration’s one popular
achievement — passage of a bipartisan infrastructure bill.

But Buttigieg had literally no role in negotiating the infrastructure
bill. None. He was absent on the job. And he has also presided over the
worst supply chain crisis in memory.

Grocery stores sold out of turkeys at Thanksgiving and empty store
shelves at Christmas are not generally a winning path to the presidency.

But Buttigieg may be on to something. The bipartisan infrastructure bill
is indeed popular — supported by 81% of Democrats, 63% of independents
and 46% of Republicans, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

That’s because it represents exactly what Biden promised voters in 2020
but failed to deliver — normalcy, compromise, unity and bipartisanship.
If Democrats want to dig themselves out of the political hole they are
in, maybe they should turn to the two leaders in their party who did not
run in 2020 and are actually responsible for the bill’s passage?

Joe Manchin-Kyrsten Sinema 2024 — now that’s a Democratic ticket that
would terrify the GOP.

© 2021, The Washington Post
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