New York Times columnist David Brooks claimed Democratic voters should count themselves “lucky” that President Joe Biden is a candidate in the 2024 election.
Brooks appeared on PBS NewsHour as the token conservative voice in a panel that featured pundits that were more left-leaning than him, but he offered the president a glowing review. Biden is currently running for reelection with two Democratic candidates opposing him — environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and author Marianne Williamson.
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“The Democrats are lucky, frankly, to have a candidate in Biden,” Brooks said.
Brooks praised the president’s “peacemaking efforts” in Europe and Asia, pointing to the trilateral summit at Camp David with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Republic of Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol from earlier this week. According to Brooks, Biden is also not a member of the “coastal elite,” which should count as a vote for him.
“And Joe Biden has — sends off all the right cultural messages for moderate independent voters who don’t have college degrees. And Democrats are not grateful enough for what they have, in my view.”
The columnist went on to predict that Biden’s “numbers will go up as inflation recedes.”
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Brooks made it known in a 2019 column that he would not be voting for then-President Donald Trump for reelection.
Biden is currently in Lake Tahoe on vacation with his family in a house on the Nevada side of the lake owned by failed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer. Afterward, Biden will visit Hawaii to witness the devastation of the wildfires on the island of Maui.
