Many Republican critics support Biden’s diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics

“I don’t agree with what some are calling for, which is to boycott our athletes, which is preventing our athletes from going to the Olympics,” he said on Tuesday. Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. “I think that would be a mistake. I understand the sentiment behind it, but it was that same sentiment that made Jimmy Carter do it in 1980, and I think it didn’t work then. I don’t think it’s fair to punish our athletes. I think there are young men and young women who have spent years and decades training and getting ready for the Olympics. And I think it’s not fair to make them victims.”