Cenk Uygur, co-founder of the Young Turks, said he's running against President Joe Biden out of fear Biden will lose in 2024.
Uygur shared the latest Morning Consult poll on X, formerly known as Twitter, which found that Biden lost to former President Donald Trump in the following swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The poll came a week after Uygur announced his campaign, which is his second after he lost the 2020 primary for California's 25th Congressional District.
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"Biden LOSING in FIVE OUT OF SEVEN SWING STATES. Trailing Trump by TEN POINTS with independents and LOSING IN PENNSYLVANIA. You're 100% lying to yourself if you don't think he's going to lose to Trump. We need to pick someone else!" Uygur wrote.
This latest candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination comes two days after former Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. switched to run as an independent. Author Marianne Williamson remains the third Democratic candidate. Uygur is the only candidate running who is not a natural-born American citizen but has retained lawyers to challenge the Constitution's clause that specifies the president be born in the country.
“[Biden] is not going to win,” Uygur said in his announcement. “It should not have been me. It should have been somebody else, but, unfortunately, it was not anyone else. There’s only four months left. We must change course. He has, at best, a 10% chance of winning. I’m running as a proxy. I am running to win. But I am also running as a proxy for any other candidate.”
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Uygur has long been the head anchor of the news program the Young Turks but began phasing out reporting on Biden a week before his announcement, with plans to continue that practice. He did, however, interview Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on the show, which began on SiriusXM and YouTube in 2002.
Ramaswamy is the youngest, at 37, facing off against former President Donald Trump, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in the race to win the GOP presidential nomination.