Good Monday evening. This is Daniel Allott with The Hill's Top Opinions.
An uncomfortable truth confronts Democrats as they look ahead to the 2024 presidential election, writes political consultant Douglas MacKinnon: The Biden-Harris ticket is deeply flawed, but the party doesn't really have anyone viable on the bench to take its place.
Many Democrats MacKinnon speaks with are looking for "a superstar to emerge as the 'adult in the room' to save the party."
Who could that past superstar be? You know the names — Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.
"It is a list that may say more about Democrats lacking a deep bench of proven talent when it comes to the recent past," writes MacKinnon. "And it is a list that poses many other obvious problems, too."
The dream of most Democrats (and not a few Republicans) is that former First Lady Michelle Obama decides to run. Not only would she offer generational change, but she'd instantly become the frontrunner. That said, she has consistently and adamantly said she will not run.
As for the other three, they have each already lost a presidential election and are all in their mid-to-late 70s. "While Clinton may still have a loyal core of supporters, neither Kerry nor Gore have a serious substantial base in the party today," MacKinnon adds.
But for those who don't believe a viable candidate can emerge from among this group of presidential election losers (all of whom lost by excruciatingly slim margins), MacKinnon has a two-word retort: Richard Nixon.
Read MacKinnon's op-ed here.
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