The President has content to sitback and watch Donald Trump twist in the wind dealing with his legal woe’s…..
That has Biden marginally ahead of Trump in polling….
But Democrats are NOT happy with NO REAL Biden 2024 campaign effort….
President Biden and his allies are hoping to get back onto the center of the political stage in the coming weeks, framing next year’s general election contest to their advantage early on.
The move, which has at its centerpiece a $25 million advertising campaign, comes after a period during which Biden has been overshadowed by the legal challenges facing former President Trump and the early stages of the Republican presidential primary.
The president has also faced some setbacks, including criticisms that his response to the wildfires in Maui lacked urgency and the collapse of a plea deal that looked set to end his son Hunter’s immediate legal worries.
A campaign official outlined the recipe by which the Biden team hopes to work itself into a stronger position, however.
“We’re going to keep focusing on the same issues that the President talked about in announcing his reelection bid: fighting for Americans’ freedoms, including the right to choose; protecting our democracy; and lowering costs and fighting for the middle class,” the official told The Hill.
Despite being marginalized by the more dramatic happenings on the other side of the aisle — and peppered by attacks from congressional Republicans who have raised the specter of impeachment — Biden’s approval ratings have remained largely unchanged.
Those ratings are not a source of much comfort for Democrats outside the president’s team, who believe Biden has not gotten credit for his achievements.
In the weighted polling average maintained by data site FiveThirtyEight, Biden scored 41 percent approval and 54 percent disapproval Thursday evening, a rating almost exactly the same as one month before….