The Democratic National Committee (DNC) made it clear in April that it had thrown all of its 2024 eggs into the re-election campaign basket of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as if they were running entirely unopposed.

That isn't exactly the case, though, as evidenced by the surprisingly consistent traction gained by Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is averaging around 15-20 percent support among Democratic primary voters, according to RealClearPolitics.

Yet, while some have asserted that Kennedy faces the biggest problem by being essentially frozen out by the DNC, a counter-argument can be made that the DNC itself stands to face the biggest problem by unconditionally hitching its cart to the elderly and increasingly diminished workhorse of Biden, who is losing in numerous polls to both of the Republican Party's top two contenders -- former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis -- per RCP's collection of 2024 general election polls.

DNC is all-in on Biden re-election campaign

The Washington Post reported on April 20 that President Biden would announce his 2024 re-election campaign and would keep Vice President Harris by his side as his running mate for a second time.

That report noted that the national Democratic Party, by way of the DNC, had announced that "it will support Biden’s reelection, and it has no plans to sponsor primary debates."

The DNC decision to not sponsor any primary debates has been widely criticized, according to a Fox News report just days later, from a number of Democrats, including Kennedy and fellow 2024 Democratic hopeful Marianne Williamson, among others, who proclaimed that the move from the Democratic Party was decidedly "un-democratic."

Kennedy said at that time in an interview, "The DNC, at this point, has taken the official position that there will be no debate, and I think that’s unfortunate."

Dem voters want primary debates, despite historical tradition of protecting incumbent presidents

As Fox News noted at that time, and as ABC News more fulsomely detailed earlier this month, the DNC's overtly non-democratic decision to protect its incumbent president from intraparty challengers is not particularly unusual or without precedent.

ABC News declared: "No incumbent president has participated in a primary debate since the first modern debate was held in 1948, even when presented with high-profile primary challengers."

And that goes for both parties, too, as evidenced by the fact that neither of President Biden's two most recent predecessors, former Presidents Trump and Barack Obama, were compelled by their respective parties to engage in debates with challengers to their incumbency.

Yet, a USA Today/Suffolk University poll earlier in June showed that around 80 percent of Democratic voters want to see Biden stand and debate his fellow Democratic challengers, including more than 70 percent of those who plan to support Biden's re-election in 2024.

David Paleologos, director of Suffolk's Political Research Center, told the outlet, "The decision not to debate is ignoring the 82% of women, 84% of union households, 86% of independents, and 90% of young voters who are not only planning to vote in their state's Democratic primary or caucus next year but also would like to see a series of Democratic primary debates."

CNN says Kennedy should accept fact that majority of Dems still like Biden

That doesn't seem to matter to the Biden campaign, the DNC, or CNN, as it reported over the weekend that regardless of how consistently well Kennedy was doing in the polls, a majority of Democrats continued to approve, favor, and support President Biden. And, therefore, Kennedy and other challengers should simply accept those facts and not complain about the lack of primary debates.

Of course, that creates a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, in that the lack of debates will make it harder for Democratic voters to learn more about Kennedy and others as potentially viable and victorious alternatives to the incumbent -- and that move may well backfire terrifically on the DNC if the largely protected and unchallenged Biden goes on to lose in stunning fashion to either former President Trump or Gov. DeSantis in November 2024.