Posted on 11/20/2021 4:56:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Biden and members of his inner circle have reassured allies in recent days that he plans to run for reelection in 2024, as they take steps to deflect concern about the 79-year-old president’s commitment to another campaign and growing Democratic fears of a coming Republican return to power.
The efforts come as the broader Democratic community has become increasingly anxious after a bruising six-month stretch that has seen Biden’s national approval rating plummet more than a dozen points, into the low 40s, amid growing concerns about inflation, Democratic infighting in Washington and faltering public health efforts to move beyond the covid-19 pandemic.
The message is aimed in part at tamping down the assumption among many Democrats that Biden may not seek reelection given his age and waning popularity, while also effectively freezing the field for Vice President Harris and other potential presidential hopefuls.
“The only thing I’ve heard him say is he’s planning on running again,” said former senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), a Biden friend. “And I’m glad he is.”
At a virtual fundraiser this month, Biden told a small group of donors that he plans to seek a second term, underscoring the message he gave the nation in March at his first White House news conference before cautioning that he had “never been able to plan 3½, four years ahead, for certain.”
“What he is saying publicly is what he firmly believes. There’s no difference,” said former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, who attended the fundraising event. “He will not run if he feels he can’t do the job physically or emotionally.”
But interviews with 28 Democratic strategists and officials, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak more frankly, show that the assurances have not stopped the internal debate over whether Biden will appear on...
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He’s the guy in the Monty Python movie who doesn’t want to go on the cart.
Qui bono?
Kamala is under fire. What if this is a way to clear Xoe out of the way for her to run in 2024? To bring his mental state to the fore and convince him to not run. And not hide in the basement while others run for him.
Someone is doing this and it is not Xoe Bai-din.
Not even a machine will elect an 82 year old. Democrats have no bench, do they.
Bowels maybe.
They find that news “reassuring”?
THE DONALD V. PEDO JOEY PART DEUX
I can’t wait to see how the Democrats get 81 million votes while their candidate has a 35% approval rate.
Good luck hammerhead.
Why Chris Dodd is not in jail is beyond me..
HE won’t last to run....However if the Dems already have conducted a successful coup they might already have the next election in hand....and they’ll continue to prop the criminal family up.
Our country is in such a world of hurt and it’s going to get worse as we all know.
I highly doubt that the DNC will be willing to produce 100 hundred million fake votes for Joe in 2024.
So am I. Let's go Brandon.
He is the only one that believed his doctor.
I bet he misses those waitress sandwiched.
I doubt very seriously he will even be doing his decrepit, demented old man shuffle in 2024, much less running.
May not even be doing it in 2022.
The drugs these days must be a *lot* stronger than when I was in college.
Instead of his basement Biden’s 2024 campaign will be run from Happy Acres Memory Care Facility in Delaware.
ROFL
sleepy Joe is on great drugs... if he makes it the uniparty will ensure his win
He’s pretty confident that he can win...
Soros has assured him that there are already truckloads of ballots with votes counted and ready for delivery in every red or purple state...
In addition, a large percentage of the 45-50 million migrant vermin already inside the country are ready to beat the 2020 3-4 million vermin votes cast for the communists during that Presidential election...
I’d guess that at least 20-million vermin will be voting in 2024...
The vermin will have $450,000 reasons to vote for the communists...
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