Steve Forbes sat down with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer and Jackie Heinrich on “America’s Newsroom” Friday morning to make a bold prediction: President Joe Biden will not be the Democrats’ 2024 nominee, despite his re-election campaign announcement in April.
Noting a Fox News poll in which 48% of respondents said Biden’s policies were hurting them, and only 20% said they felt they were being helped by the current administration, Forbes said, “I Looks like Joe Biden might not be the Democratic Party’s nominee next year.
“Wow, you’re on record,” Hemmer said in astonishment.
Forbes said, “On the record – because… you have a bad economy, you have a president who people think is no longer fit for the job, certainly not for another four years.” “So I don’t know what the scenario is going to be, but they can’t have him running in November of 2024.”
Hemmer, still puzzled, then called on Heinrich to weigh in because, as the White House correspondent put it, “It’s [she] does for a living.
“Well, I wonder, what makes you think it can’t be Joe Biden?” he asked Forbes.
“I think you might see a kind of replay in 2020, at least in spirit, when there was a fear that Bernie would be eliminated.” Forbes replied that they didn’t mind his policies, they just didn’t want Bernie took charge of the Democratic Party, and so they plan to nominate Joe Biden.” I think Governor Newsom of California has a hint of it, I think the governor of Michigan, some other people are thinking that some scenarios are coming along. Could come… who knows what the scenario is. But they know they can’t go along with this guy in a position like this – it’s a party-evolving idea, especially after the debate in the Republican Party has a lot of new faces. And people want something new.
Earlier in the segment, Forbes criticized Biden’s work on the economy, saying that “even though it’s not officially in recession, it’s the economic equivalent of walking pneumonia — not enough to put you to bed yet.” is, but just dragging you down.” extraction of energy.
He said, ‘There is a feeling of backwardness of the country.’
Hemmer pivoted shortly after Forbes’ prediction, but not before assuring the chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media that if it turned out to be correct, he would remember it.
“That view is the minority right now – maybe you’ll be proven right over time, we’ll see,” Hemmer said. “And if so, you’re going to play this video again, okay?”
“And if it’s wrong, you’ll be redoing it anyway!” Forbes said.
Watch the full interview on “America’s Newsroom” in the video above.
