Biden as a one-term president is not the solution.
Notice the statement does not say that Biden definitely intends to serve eight years in the White House. And if he doesn’t, then he really shouldn’t be campaigning for it in the first place.
One of the most important parts about being a first-term president is running for reelection. It gives you leverage over your party on Capitol Hill, since lawmakers want to help you nab that second term or at least don’t want to piss off primary voters by denying you legislative wins and undermining your chances. Plus, you can do more in eight years than four. You get more time to appoint judges. You can implement legislation that takes a while to get up and running.
Some will no doubt point out here that if Democrats don’t beat Trump now, the party won’t be able to govern at all. But a weak, four-year presidency that starts in 2020 might actually be worse for progressive priorities in the long term than a stronger presidency that begins in 2024. Democrats would even have a chance to pick up Senate seats running against Trump in the 2022 midterms, when the map will be much friendlier than it is in 2020.
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