The Future Is Still Moderate — Why Democrats Should Run Buttigieg in 2024

Democrats need to forget about Bernie Sanders and focus on Mayor Pete

Samuel Clemens
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Pete Buttigieg, U.S. secretary of transportation, speaks during a news conference at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California, U.S., on Jan. 11, 2022. Allison Zaucha/Bloomberg via Getty Images

We’re barely a month into 2022 and many eyes are already cast toward 2024. The increasingly important 2022 midterm elections are approaching much sooner but most voters are more concerned with who is going to challenge Donald Trump in 2024. That said, discussion of that particular topic is only going to increase. We just saw Trump host his first rally of the year, which Politico describes as an “attempt to add a distinctly MAGA tilt to the midterm election season.”

It doesn’t take much to see that many Americans aren’t happy with President Joe Biden. For everything he has done to get our economy back on track, most of the people who voted for him don’t seem to care. Those who voted against him are still pushing conspiracy theories regarding the Big Lie. One year after the Capitol Hill insurrection, far too many Americans still believe that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump. Additionally, Biden did make it clear in 2019 that he only intended to serve one term. And while I have nothing against Vice President Kamala Harris, nothing I have seen from her makes me think she could defeat Donald Trump on her own. She didn’t have that ability in 2020 when she failed to…

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Samuel Clemens
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Financial news writer by day, political commentator by night. Former economic policy analyst. Founder and Publisher of My Side of the Aisle.