In an effort to put pressure on President Biden to withdraw from the race, progressive media personality Cenk Uygur of “The Young Turks” has declared his candidacy.
“We need to change direction,” Uygur said, adding that Biden has no more than “a 10% chance” of winning the election. “I can honestly say that Donald Trump is a fascist,” he said.
Even while Uygur claimed he was “running to win,” he also claimed he was participating in the election “as a proxy for any other contender. Biden needs to be taken out of the race,” he said.
“So my job is essentially to play Paul Revere: Biden’s going to lose, Biden’s going to lose,” Uygur declared, adding that he would put pressure on the incumbent to withdraw from the contest.
But Uygur’s plans to run for president are seriously flawed by the Constitution. He became an American citizen through naturalization. The U.S. Constitution says that the President can only be “a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of this country at the time of the Adoption of our Constitution.”
Uygur doesn’t agree with the idea that he can’t run for president.
“Case law is evident. People who have become citizens are eligible to run for President,” Uyghur posted on X. “Beating this case in the Supreme Court will remove the albatross from the necks of 25 million naturalized citizens of the United States. The Supreme Court has already said that we all have the same rights,” he stated.
Biden is likely to be the Democratic Party’s choice for president in 2024. Polls show that the president is beating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as well as Marianne Williamson. Kennedy recently said that he is going to run as an independent contender instead of with the other candidates.
