National Review Editorial Board Calls on Biden to ‘Take the Next Logical Step and Resign’

President Joe Biden is facing calls to not just stop at his to end his re-election campaign. On Sunday, conservative magazine National Review said in an op-ed, “Joe Biden did the right thing in ending the charade of…

Bradley CortrightJul 22, 20244 min read

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Additionally, National Review suggested Biden resigning as president would “also likely create more of a honeymoon for Kamala Harris and perhaps make it easier for her to hit reset in the campaign.

After noting that in a different world, Democrats would have more time to choose a replacement, it said, “Democrats wouldn’t be in this fix if Biden and his family had taken full accounting of his aging when they decided to run again last year and if the White House, Democratic leaders, the press, and various other insiders hadn’t undertaken an effort to cover up Biden’s state. They all knew what was going on but figured that if they didn’t talk about it, somehow people wouldn’t notice. Of course, they did.”

The magazine then accused Democrats of engaging in a “cover-up” to “deceive the American people” about Biden.

“The serious potential candidates were sidelined by pressure to close ranks publicly behind Biden, who refused to debate the few, marginal primary opponents he attracted. The party owes an apology to Congressman Dean Phillips, who ran a quixotic campaign to sound the alarm,” it argued.

The op-ed suggested of Harris:

“It’s unclear how a Kamala Harris nomination would affect the race. She would instantly take the age issue off the table and may be able to regain some ground among traditional Democratic constituencies. On the other hand, as a woke, relatively young progressive from California, she probably wouldn’t do as well as Biden did among older white voters. Harris would be vulnerable to the charge of radicalism in a way Biden wasn’t as a doddering old man, and certainly nothing prior to this extraordinary turn of events has suggested that she’s an exceptional political talent. As Biden’s vice president, she also carries both the policy baggage of his administration and her own implication in the cover-up.”

Still, it pointed out former President Donald Trump is not incredibly popular according tot he polls and that Harris will likely “get a burst of fundraising and positive media attention,” it then said, “It’s safer to assume that this will be a real race.”

“At least the centerpiece of the Democratic campaign will no longer be a flagrant falsehood that nearly everyone recognizes as such,” the op-ed concluded. “Biden is no longer offering himself up as the next president of the United States until January 2029 and, if he really wants to put the country first as he said in his statement, should resign the presidency right now.”