Will 2024 be a contest between two lightweights pretending to be heavyweights?

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By entering your email, you are agreeing to Fox News Terms of Service and Privacy Policy , which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive . To access the content, check your email and follow the instructions provided. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Some voters in recent elections have complained about being forced to choose between "the lesser of two evils." In the 2024 election it appears we are heading for a worse choice the evil of two lessers.

Former President Donald Trump continues demeaning and defaming anyone who disagrees with him. He repeats unproven claims that the 2020 election was "stolen." A myriad of other inaccurate statements has apparently had a negative influence on President Biden who has joined him in the mud pit.

Recall it was Biden who promised to "bring us together" always an impossibility given the conflicting ideologies of Republicans and Democrats. In his speech last week near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Biden invoked George Washington as an example of a selfless man who refused to be crowned a king, resigned his commission as an Army general following the Revolutionary War, and limited himself to two terms as president.

'A PUPPET': SOME AMERICANS SAY OLD AGE, WEAK GUIDANCE INHIBITING BIDEN FROM BEING AN EFFECTIVE LEADER An aside Washington engaged in an insurrection according to the definition of that word: " an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government." Wasn't the British government "established" over the colonies, however tyrannical it was? Some insurrections turn out better than others.

The insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 whether one believes it fits the definition or not was still a rebellion against a legitimately established government with the express purpose of changing the election results. But I digress. Video Biden's Valley Forge speech shows voters that 2024 is shaping up as a contest between two lightweights pretending to be heavyweights.

If Trump is elected, Biden said, America will become like Germany in the '30s. The very future of democracy is at stake, he claimed. This is how Democrats think. Only when they win elections is the country safe. This isn't Biden's first trip into the mud. During the 2012 presidential campaign, Vice President Biden told a Black audience that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney "would put you all back in chains." Biden apparently thinks his posturing as a pugilist, rather than a pragmatist, will allow him to out punch Trump.

That isn't likely to happen as Biden has been viewed as a nice guy. No one calls Trump nice. Video Where is this corrosive language getting us? Why can't we have a true debate over the best ways to fix our problems? Claiming your opponent would rule like a Nazi, or that the other is a crook, solves nothing.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION When polls show Biden and his policies are increasingly unpopular the president has two choices. One is to change course, which he is unlikely to do because that would mean acknowledging he has been wrong. When was the last time you heard a politician admit error? The other avenue is to ignore his failed policies from the open border, to the national debt, crime, and foreign policy and claim if he loses to Trump, it will be Armageddon time for the country.

That strategy is not working, so far. Video Polls also show most Democrats and Republicans prefer neither candidate. If Trump's upcoming criminal trials result in convictions, that might diminish his appeal except to the Kool Aid drinkers. Perhaps Biden's potential impeachment , if the evidence of financial wrongdoing by his family can be proven, might have the same effect on some of the president's supporters, but this late in the game it seems unlikely.

President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Montgomery County Community College January 5, 2024 in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. In his first campaign event of the 2024 election season, Biden stated that democracy and fundamental freedoms are under threat if former U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House.

(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) One scenario that could assuage voter angst: Could the rules be changed at both conventions this summer so that if Trump and Biden win enough of their primaries to claim the nomination of their respective parties, the delegates could vote to replace them? CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP One might wish leaders of both parties could get together and offer a deal that promises "we'll not nominate our guy if you agree not to nominate your guy." That might sound appealing to some, but it also seems equally unlikely.

Too bad for America. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM CAL THOMAS Cal Thomas is one of America's most widely syndicated op ed columnist in the U.S. He is the author of several books. His most recent is " America’s Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires, Superpowers and the United States. " Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribune.com..