A dismissal of the the idea that Joe Biden might NOT run for a second term is in order….
THAT seems to NOT to be the case with a recent report that Biden is getting tight with the Democratic National Party organisation a little more than. a month in office….
Biden IS looking down ballot…
He watched the party get waxed in 2010 because his boss President Obama did NOT reach down to support the state parties….
Joe Biden is NOT a lame-duck President even at 78 years old….
Forget that.…
The Washington Post ran a story on Tuesday about Joe Biden’s decision to house his political operation within the Democratic National Committee instead of creating a parallel organization as Barack Obama had done. Obama never had much affection for the DNC, which was not exactly a center of support for him when he ran against Hillary Clinton in 2008. But Obama’s neglect of the party’s institutional strength while president in favor of the personal vehicles Organizing for America and Organizing for Action ultimately neither provided major electoral payoffs nor won him appreciation among Democratic politicians and committee members. A party regular through and through, Biden has decided that his interests are best served by remaining integrated with the traditional Democratic organizational apparatus heading into the 2022 midterms, rather than siphoning staff members and donor money into a separate political structure.
The Post report mentions, almost as an aside, that while Biden will wait until after the midterms to build a formal re-election campaign and publicly declare his candidacy, his advisors are “working under the assumption that he will once again top the Democratic ticket in 2024.” This might be shocking news to some; I have encountered multiple politically aware people since Biden first entered the 2020 race who presume that he would only seek to serve a single term. But it shouldn’t be a surprise at all.
I still think Biden will announce some time in mid 2023 that he will not be a candidate for a second term.
Just my hunch. And until then these stories will pop up every few months or so.
Biden may think now he is going to run in 2024, but I also do not see it happening.
I’m sticking with two terms Scott