I KNOW he’s saying he’s a ‘GO’ and right now?
He’s riding a high on the midterm results and Foreign Affairs….
He’s doing a damn good job….
But Biden STILL is lousy self salesman….
(Democrats are NOT excited about VP Harris)
And I’m going to be one of those who points to a polling problem the Democratic President seems to have….
His DISAPPROVAL numbers across the board IS ABOVE 50%….
Biden running against Donald Trump would be guaranteed win for Biden…
But it is increasing looking like Donald Trump could NOT be the Republican nominee and if does get it?
He’d be so battered and bruised, maybe a convicted felon that Biden could not campaign and increase his election win margin….
But?
If Trump is NOT the nominee?
If things get even MORE sideways with NOT Trump to scare Democrats to come to vote?
Biden and Democrats COULD have trouble cloud’s raining on them….
Right now?
Biden has room to keep guys like Gavin Newsom at bay….
But 2024 is 2 years away…..
“Even before the midterms, Biden was running ahead of Donald Trump,” said Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland. “Now you’ve got Biden, he has the wind behind his back, he’s gotten a lift from doing better than expected, while Trump is obviously part of a Republican Party meltdown. When you look at it in that frame, Biden has emerged in a stronger position.”
Unspoken is the reality that Democrats have an unproven bench behind Mr. Biden. Many party operatives are deeply worried that Vice President Kamala Harris could not win. While there are many other would-be contenders, none of them has impressed the president enough for him to feel comfortable turning the party over to them.
Some Democrats argue that this is a situation of Mr. Biden’s own making, having failed to successfully groom a potential successor, consciously or not making himself the indispensable man. But either way, it leaves many Democrats circling back to the conclusion that Mr. Biden remains the party’s best choice….
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The elections, however, were as much a testament to Republican weakness as an indication of Mr. Biden’s strength. According to an aggregate of surveys tracked by the political website FiveThirtyEight, Mr. Biden’s average 41.5 percent approval rating remains lower at this point in his term than that of all 13 presidents at similar points going back to Harry S. Truman (albeit only slightly lower than Mr. Trump’s was at this stage)…
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In CNN exit polls, 67 percent of voters last week said they did not want Mr. Biden to run for re-election, including a significant share of Democrats. A New York Times/Siena College poll in July found that nearly two-thirds of Democrats preferred another candidate for 2024, with age listed as the top concern by the most party members…
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Mr. Biden’s aides respond to questions about age by citing his record: Look at all the bills he has passed, they argue, because that shows he can get the job done. Among others, Mr. Biden enacted major legislation providing Covid-19 relief; rebuilding the nation’s roads, bridges and other infrastructure; jump-starting the semiconductor industry; expanding health care; extending help to veterans afflicted by toxic burn pits; curbing the price of prescription drugs and combating climate change.
None of which, of course, guarantees how he would be doing in six years, at the end of a second term, when he would be 86 — nine years older than Ronald Reagan, the previous oldest president, who was 77 when he left the White House….
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An announcement may not come until the State of the Union address, probably in February. Aides argue they do not need to move any sooner since Mr. Biden is an incumbent, and besides, if he does not run, he would prefer to delay the day he becomes a lame duck. Should he not run, it would still leave nearly a year for other Democrats to prove themselves on the campaign trail….
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