“Joe Biden May Face Two Spoiler Candidates in 2024”

Jonathan Chait in the Intelligencer, discussing the twin threats to Biden from Cornel West and No Labels. Interesting comparison at the end of the piece to Truman in 1948, who also faced splintering from two different sides: Strom Thurmond as a Dixiecrat and Henry Wallace as a progressive. True, Truman prevailed, but it was very close: remember that famous “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline. And Dewey was hardly Trump.

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