Why Democrats can’t run away from Joe Biden
CNN — There’s a lot of talk in Democratic circles these days about vulnerable 2022 candidates beginning to distance themselves from President Joe Biden amid his faltering poll numbers on both how he has handled Afghanistan and his overall job performance. “Although it is clear to me that we could not continue to put American service members in danger for an unwinnable war, I also believe that the evacuation process appears to have been egregiously mishandled,” wrote Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild in a tweet late last week. The history of midterm elections is riddled with House members – and even some senators – who did everything they could to make sure voters knew they didn’t agree with the president of their party all the time and still wound up cinched at the political waist to the commander in chief. One classic example of this political reality came in 2020, when North Dakota Democratic Rep. Earl Pomeroy ran a TV ad late in the campaign in which he said this: “I’m not Nancy Pelosi.

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