Some within his party are fearing that Biden’s age, weakened political position, perceived fluctuations on the world stage and a lack of ability to excite voters could reduce his chances of re-election. “To say our country was on the right track would be a blatant departure from reality,” Steve Symeonidis, a member of the Democratic National Committee from Miami, told the New York Times. “The president” should announce his intention not to seek re-election in ’24 immediately after the interim elections, “Symeonidis said. Some Democrats have expressed concern about Biden running for president in 2024.AP Photo / Evan Vucci Biden and his government shaken by the highest inflation rate in four decades, gas prices exceeding $ 5 a gallon, the recent horrific mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas, a Supreme Court that seems ready to Roe vs. Wade and a domestic agenda that has stalled despite the fact that Democrats have a majority in Congress. , Democrat lawmakers and party officials are pessimistic about Biden’s ability to rally ground if the party suffers at the hands of Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections and are concerned about his ability to once again prevail in a face-to-face match. face with former President Donald Trump, the newspaper reported on Saturday. Biden and his government are facing gas prices that have skyrocketed to more than $ 5 a gallon. EPA / JOHN G. MABANGLO There are questions about whether Biden, who would be 82 years old on the day of his inauguration in 2024, could handle an exhausting presidential campaign and increase media pressure – especially when he has kept the press short by giving fewer interviews. by any of its immediate predecessors. “The presidency is a monstrous fiscal job and the harsh reality is that the president would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term and that would be an important issue,” said David Axelrod, chief strategy officer for the two. Barack Obama’s victories. presidential campaigns, they told the Times. Axelrod said the president had not received the praise he deserved for the country’s pilot through the coronavirus pandemic, NATO unification against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the “restoration of decency and decency in the White House.” “And part of the reason he does not do it is executive. “He looks his age and he’s not as agile in front of a camera as he once was, and that fueled a narrative about a skill that has no real roots,” said the longtime political agent. There are questions about whether Biden, who would be 82 years old on the day of his inauguration in 2024, could handle an exhausting presidential campaign and increase media pressure. JIM WATCHON / AFP Getty Images Biden’s acceptance rate fell to 33%, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released last week. At the same time, 64% of Americans are discouraged from manipulating the economy and 34% agree that inflation is the most pressing issue facing the nation. Jasmine Crockett, a Texas State Representative who won the second round of a Democratic House seat last month, was reluctant to criticize the president. He noted, however, that while Republicans in Lone Star State have passed bills to limit abortions and voting rights, Democrats in Congress have failed to push through a progressive agenda despite holding small majorities in both House and Senate. Biden government faces rise in mass shootings since early 2022.AP Photo / Matt Rourke Democrats say, “What the hell is going on?” Crockett told the Times. “Our country is collapsing completely. And so I think we lack enthusiasm. ” Faiz Shakir, who led Sen. Bernie Saunders’s 2020 campaign, said Biden has a sense of weakness among some Democrats who want him to fight more vigorously against Republicans. Shakir said he believes Biden will defeat Trump a second time, but if Republicans nominate someone like Florida Gov. Ron DeSadis, Democrats may want to look elsewhere for a candidate. “If it’s DeSantis or someone, I think it would be a different challenge,” Shakir told the newspaper. Shelia Huggins, a lawyer from Durham, NC, and a member of the Democratic National Committee, went straight to the point. The Supreme Court is also ready to overturn Roe v. Wade’s abortion laws.AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin, Archive “Democrats need new, bold leadership for the 2024 presidential race,” he told the Times. “It can’t be Biden.” Not only are Biden job approval numbers on the rise, but the power of his support among the grassroots is faltering, especially among the black voters who overwhelmingly ran for him in the 2020 presidential race. Adrianne Shropshire, executive director of BlackPAC, an African-American political organization, said she was concerned that black voters would not vote for Biden again after his government failed to deliver on its promises of criminal justice and voting. “This frustration and malaise, anxiety and fear, translates into a constant gap of excitement and does that make people feel that their involvement does not change significantly?” he said. “That’s the real question.” Photographs of 19 children and two teachers killed during a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas on May 30, 2022. AFP via Getty Images However, members of the government and Democratic officials said that despite the ongoing problems plaguing the administration, they believe that Biden is the party’s top choice in 2024. “Only one person led the transition beyond the lies and the judicial provocations and the Trump uprising to take office on January 20: Joe Biden,” Anita Dan, the president’s senior adviser, told the Times. Some have said they have heard the same uncertainty about who should be the Democratic flag bearer. “This is the same twist we heard about Barack Obama in 2010 and 2011,” Ben LaBold, who worked on Obama’s campaigns, told the newspaper. Few Democrats have told the Times that candidates considering a White House nomination will be postponed by incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris, whose polling numbers are also sinking. However, they noted that many of the potential Democrat candidates for 2024 – Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Cory Booker of New Jersey – lost to Biden. in the Democratic primary in 2020. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who made an unsuccessful attempt to anoint Democrats for the presidency in 2004, said the party should look for a newer group of candidates. A mourner stops to pay his respects at a memorial service at Robb Elementary School, set up to honor the victims of the recent school shooting.AP Photo / Eric Gay “The generation after me is just a pile of rubbish,” said Dean, 73. Dean, who said he voted for Transport Secretary Pete Butijing in 2020, told the Times that Democratic leaders have spent a lot of time talking about what they want to do – without achieving their goals. “We have to have concrete examples of how we deal with things. “It can’t just be pie-in-the-sky and kumbaya,” Dean said.
