A USA Today/Suffolk University poll found that 80% of Democratic primary voters believe there should be a series of Democratic presidential primary debates ahead of the 2024 election. But as of right now, President Biden has no plans to debate his two opponents: author Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …

No incumbent president has debated a primary opponent since Gerald Ford, but Kennedy and Williamson are both calling for Biden to debate them.

[Alternate headline: Four in five Democrat voters setting themselves up for predictable disappointment. Major parties do not set their incumbent presidents for potential embarrassment unless absolutely necessary. Jimmy Carter refused to debate Ted Kennedy in 1980, and that was a far more serious challenge than either of these two fringies. The only reason Ford got forced to debate is because Reagan was running even with him and Ford never got elected to either presidency or vice-presidency in the first place — the only American president appointed to the job. If the DNC actually set Biden up for a debate, it would signal that they’re abandoning him. — Ed]