The Battle Over Biden
President Joe Biden’s in the first presidential debate of 2024 has sparked about his candidacy within his own party—even among those who have backed him despite his unconditional support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.Â
The New York Times notably began within hours of the debate, and then published an unprecedented op-ed calling on him to Ҡby exiting the election. The paper has continued to publish a string of daily op-eds on the same theme.
But for years, a progressive campaign called —previously named Don’t Run Joe—has been calling on Biden to do the same. Norman Solomon, National Director of , which leads that campaign, spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the prospects for a new Democratic nominee.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent ÎÞÂëÊÓƵ Institute’s Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (2023) and Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (2005). Her forthcoming book is called Talking About Abolition (Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women’s Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master’s in Astronomy from the University of Hawai’i, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on “My Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host†in her 2014  of the same name.
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