Internal talking about President Joe Biden among Democrats have been leaking to the media like a busted dam…
While the Democratic President actually hasn’t done a bad job with Infrastructure funds, No American oversea’s combat , what looks like a virus turndown and just plain stability politically?
The economies inflation, a runaway Supreme Court, and just a general sense of unease among the American public, paired with what looks like a Publican title wave coming-at them…
Ole Joe Biden maybe a moderately good President after the unfolding chaos of Donald Trump…
But he’s just NOT all that it would seem to America and especially Democrats…
What is the party to do?
Ask him to not run in 2024?
What then?
Midway through the 2022 primary season, many Democratic lawmakers and party officials are venting their frustrations with President Biden’s struggle to advance the bulk of his agenda, doubting his ability to rescue the party from a predicted midterm trouncing and increasingly viewing him as an anchor that should be cut loose in 2024.
As the challenges facing the nation mount and fatigued base voters show low enthusiasm, Democrats in union meetings, the back rooms of Capitol Hill and party gatherings from coast to coast are quietly worrying about Mr. Biden’s leadership, his age and his capability to take the fight to former President Donald J. Trump a second time.
Interviews with nearly 50 Democratic officials, from county leaders to members of Congress, as well as with disappointed voters who backed Mr. Biden in 2020, reveal a party alarmed about Republicans’ rising strength and extraordinarily pessimistic about an immediate path forward.
“To say our country was on the right track would flagrantly depart from reality,” said Steve Simeonidis, a Democratic National Committee member from Miami. Mr. Biden, he said, “should announce his intent not to seek re-election in ’24 right after the midterms.”
Democrats’ concerns come as the opening hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol made clear the stakes of a 2024 presidential election in which Mr. Trump, whose lies fueled a riot that disrupted the peaceful transfer of power, may well seek to return to the White House.
For Mr. Biden and his party, the hearings’ vivid reminder of the Trump-inspired mob violence represents perhaps the last, best chance before the midterms to break through with persuadable swing voters who have been more focused on inflation and gas prices. If the party cannot, it may miss its final opportunity to hold Mr. Trump accountable as Mr. Biden faces a tumultuous two years of a Republican-led House obstructing and investigating him.
Most top elected Democrats were reluctant to speak on the record about Mr. Biden’s future, and no one interviewed expressed any ill will toward Mr. Biden, to whom they are universally grateful for ousting Mr. Trump from office.
But the repeated failures of his administration to pass big-ticket legislation on signature Democratic issues, as well as his halting efforts to use the bully pulpit of the White House to move public opinion, have left the president with sagging approval ratings and a party that, as much as anything, seems to feel sorry for him….
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Few Democrats interviewed expect that high-profile leaders with White House ambitions would defer to Vice President Kamala Harris, who has had a series of political hiccups of her own in office….
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Many Democratic leaders and voters want Mr. Biden to fight harder against Republicans, while others want him to seek more compromise. Many of them are eyeing 2024 hoping for some sort of idealized nominee — somebody who isn’t Mr. Biden or Ms. Harris….
Hurting Mr. Biden the most, said Faiz Shakir, who was campaign manager for Mr. Sanders in 2020, is a perception of weakness.
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Something interesting to note….
President Biden ordered American troops out of Afghanistan in August of 2021.….
2 days after that?
His approval numbers droppedBELOW his disapproval numbers and have never recovered…
Joesph Biden has apparently failed to ‘project’ an aura being a strong President ever sense…..
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I have done a few of these posts and will be doing more as the midterms come closer..…
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And then there is this,…
I’ve really cut back on tweeting political stuff, but I’ll just say this. No incumbent president with an approval rating north of 75% in Gallup polling within his own party has ever come close to losing renomination. Biden is at 82%….
Harry Enten….
image…NY Times