{"id":1122288,"date":"2021-12-15T16:28:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T21:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1122288"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T21:28:52","slug":"worse-than-a-lame-duck-nyt-columnist-bret-stephens-torches-biden-2024-ticket-in-blistering-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/worse-than-a-lame-duck-nyt-columnist-bret-stephens-torches-biden-2024-ticket-in-blistering-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Worse Than A Lame Duck\u2019: NYT Columnist Bret Stephens Torches Biden 2024 Ticket In Blistering Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fworse-than-a-lame-duck-nyt-columnist-bret-stephens-torches-biden-2024-ticket-in-blistering-op-ed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1122288&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A renowned New York Times columnist blasted the possibility of President Joe Biden seeking reelection in 2024 in a piece published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s now considered horrible manners to raise concerns,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/29\/new-york-times-bret-stephens-fauci-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bret Stephens<\/a>, a conservative Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion writer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/14\/opinion\/biden-age-election-2024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> of Biden\u2019s age and health. The Delaware native would be 86 at the end of a potential second term, which would set the record for the oldest U.S. president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs if the president\u2019s well-being is nobody\u2019s business but his own. As if it doesn\u2019t much matter whether he has the fortitude for the world\u2019s most important job, so long as his aides can adroitly fill the gaps. As if accusations of ageism and a giant shushing sound from media elites can keep the issue off the public mind,\u201d Stephens wrote. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/14\/cnn-democrat-candidates-2024-presidential-election-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: CNN Floats 11 Democratic Candidates Who Could Replace Biden In 2024)<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7338144\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"40\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7338144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHILADELPHIA, PA \u2013 MAY 18: Former U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden arrives for a campaign kickoff rally, May 18, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since Biden announced his candidacy in late April, he has taken the top spot in all polls of the sprawling Democratic primary field. Biden\u2019s rally on Saturday was his first large-scale campaign rally after doing smaller events in Iowa and New Hampshire in the past few weeks. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The award-winning columnist also raised concerns about Biden\u2019s public appearances, calling the president \u201cuneven [\u2026] sometimes alarmingly incoherent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephens noted the Biden campaign\u2019s 2019 pitch to primary voters that the then-candidate was a \u201ctransition figure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guy whose main purpose was to dethrone Trump and then smooth the way for a fresher Democratic face. Biden never made that promise explicit, but the expectation feels betrayed,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Democrats inside the party continue to whisper about potential replacements for Biden, Stephens stated that \u201cpowerful contenders,\u201d such as Commerce Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/04\/donald-trump-gina-raimondo-commerce-secretary-china-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gina Raimondo<\/a>, Transportation Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/01\/pete-buttigieg-free-preschool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a> and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu should try to \u201cfind their lanes and appeal for attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephens ended his article by slamming Biden as \u201cworse than a lame duck\u201d as Democrats brace for another possible reelection bid from the president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A renowned New York Times columnist blasted the possibility of President Joe Biden seeking reelection in 2024 in a piece published Tuesday.\u201cIt\u2019s now considered horrible manners to raise concerns,\u201d Bret &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}