House Democrats' responses ranged from deference to outright disapproval of the idea for debate between President Joe Biden and 2024 primary challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for a debate with President Biden, but the DNC has already ruled out holding them for the 2024 cycle. Fox News Digital asked House Democrats whether they think Biden should have to face off with his would-be rival.
Kennedy – the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy – is widely regarded as a long shot against Biden. But he’s tried to make the case that he could beat both former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the two, and in recent days he even swung at Biden himself for a foreign policy that Kennedy denounced on Twitter Spaces as"very bellicose, pugnacious and aggressive.
"No," Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., said bluntly when asked whether the Kennedy scion should get to debate the sitting president."I, you know, love the Kennedy family. I was a huge fan of, in fact, he was an inspiration to me. But I don’t think he’s a serious candidate. I think Joe Biden’s going to be our nominee, and he deserves to be."
Moulton said,"You have established party processes for this. But I think the bar is for everybody to be considered a, you know, serious candidate with some real traction before they get on the debate stage.""It’s pretty uncommon for an incumbent to participate in a primary debate, but I don’t know how far back that tradition goes," Rep. Jeff Jackson, D-N.C., said.
Reps. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., and Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, made clear that whether that tradition is broken now is not up to congressional lawmakers.
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