Posted on 11/01/2022 1:06:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden have been meeting since September with senior advisers at the White House residence to prepare a potential 2024 reelection campaign, according to multiple people familiar with the planning.
The meetings of what advisers describe as a “very small group” come as the Democratic National Committee has been making plans to respond on President Biden’s behalf to former president Donald Trump or other potential presidential contenders who could announce campaigns in the coming months. The national party is also drafting plans to reengage with grass-roots supporters from the 2020 campaign who are not involved in the Democratic midterm effort, the people said.
Biden, who would turn 86 before the end of a second term, has not yet made a final decision on another presidential campaign, his advisers say, but he has indicated publicly and privately that he intends to run barring an unforeseen event. He has also suggested that he will be more eager to run if Trump gets into the race — as the former president has repeatedly suggested he will.
“In 2020, Joe Biden was probably the only person who could beat Donald Trump. In 2024 he might be the only person who can lose to him,” said another Democratic strategist with presidential campaign experience. “Because the American people may just decide he is just not up to the job.”
Biden’s advisers say they believe the president’s record of accomplishment in the White House will quiet those doubts.
“When you tell voters what he’s gotten done in two years, that is actually the single best answer to the age issue because — wow,” one Biden adviser said.
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“When you tell voters what he’s gotten done in two years, that is actually the single best answer to the age issue because — wow,” one Biden adviser said.
I’ll remember that when I’m gassing up the car to go
grocery shopping...
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