Washington Post columnist David Ignatius shocked the media world this week with a devastating piece urging President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, leaving some online critics saying "the dam is breaking" among liberal news organizations, who openly rooted for the aging Democrat to be elected in 2020, to no longer be running cover for the embattled incumbent.

Ignatius, who is reportedly among Biden's "favorite" columnists, told readers "it's painful to say" that neither Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris should seek re-election, saying their ticket "risks undoing his greatest achievement — which was stopping Trump." 

He put a spotlight on Biden's "two big liabilities," one being his age as polls continue to show voters think he's too old to serve a second term, and the other being Harris herself, who has an even worse approval rating than the president. 

"Biden has never been good at saying no," the veteran columnist told readers Tuesday evening. "He should have resisted the choice of Harris… He should have blocked then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, which has done considerable damage to the island’s security. He should have stopped his son Hunter from joining the board of a Ukrainian gas company and representing companies in China — and he certainly should have resisted Hunter’s attempts to impress clients by getting Dad on the phone."