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Weissert And Sieg Miller
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his allies hope their recent big wins on climate, healthcare, etc. will last at least temporarily. Questions have arisen among top Democrats over whether he will run for re-election.
That optimism may be short-lived and could be jeopardized if former President Donald Trump announces another White House campaign. The Washington parlor said his game appears to be on hold.
"I think the naysayers are pretty quiet right now," said former Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe. "I think they've seen reality."
Mr. Biden has signed a series of bills on climate change and prescription drugs in recent weeks, a longtime goal of the party. achieved a lot of Congress sent him a bill that puts tight restrictions on guns and plans to boost high-tech manufacturing in the United States. Drone attack kills al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawari, average petrol price he's dipped below $4 a gallon, inflation still hot but could eventually cool There are signs that there is
There was growing debate about Biden's future, but all of this has eased. Fellow Democrats running for re-election were struggling to answer whether America's oldest president should seek another term. But now they have a new agenda on which they can campaign for the November midterm elections.
Next week in Maryland we will be holding our first rally for the fall election season party. He also plans to actively travel to boost candidates.
As a former Senator, Biden knows that some lawmakers will need to distance themselves from Biden to win the election, but others will benefit from joint attendance. I also know that it is possible. His aide could prove Biden most useful in amplifying widely-held Democratic-backed issues such as cutting prescription drug costs and protecting abortion rights. said.
Cedric Richmond, one of Biden's closest White House advisers before taking a senior position on the Democratic National Committee, said a spate of positive news put an end to the 2024 question. He said he wasn't sure if he would fall.
"For the tried and true Democrats, the answer was simple: 'Yes, he should run. Yes, he should be our candidate.'
That includes Democrats in New York, where Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler weighed in on recent debates on whether Biden should seek a second term. In a subsequent statement, Maloney said he would support Biden "if he decides to run," and pleaded with Biden for further scrutiny during his appearance on CNN. It happens that you don't run.
Not all lingering doubts stem from clumsy answers, however.
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips said he doesn't want Biden to run in 2024. On drug law, he declined to say whether he would support Biden's second term. Progressive left-wing stars like New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been similarly noncommittal.[50][51] But Biden is not outcast. Prominent Democrats, including New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, publicly praised him during the campaign. In the interview, Jeffries highlighted the president's recent victories, including the administration's successes dating back to last year's infrastructure spending and stimulus spending package, as well as his ongoing COVID-19 vaccination efforts. rice field.
"If someone said that the President had the record of performance I just described, without any time frame, the logical reaction would be: It will be a two-term presidency,” said Jeffries.
Still, some Democrats say a few positive headlines aren't enough.
RootsAction.org's National His Director Norman Solomon said, "There will be good weeks and bad weeks in the news for Mr. Biden, but the fundamentals remain unfavorable." His progressive activist organization, already frequently critical of the president, has launched a "Don't Run Joe" initiative.
Solomon wants Biden to announce that he will not be running, so he can take greater political risks and achieve his more successful one-term presidency. White House advisers worried about making Biden a lame duck, he said, have "a fair amount of whistling past political graveyards." House supporters stress that the 2024 decision will ultimately be Biden's alone. He is trying to follow a similar timeline to that of former President Barack Obama, who in April 2011 declared him re-elected for 2012, the people said.
No modern sitting president has faced such hesitation within his own party, nor has he been realistically threatened in a primary election. A challenger within the party could undermine both the president and his party.
Some Biden observers believed he would be best suited to run against Trump in 2020, so the president coming out of political retirement will not end up running for president. If he chooses to do so, we see him as unlikely to seek re-election.
If Biden runs, he will have to align with voters about his age - not really ready for his second term, which won't end until he's 86. must convince voters that Actually help Biden.
"I don't want people to suddenly say that wisdom and experience are bad things," he said. "President of the United States, leader of the free world, that's what you want." There is little tradition of a president not seeking re-election during his tenure.The last was Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880.
Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a civil rights attorney expected to win a seat in the House of Representatives in Dallas, said Biden "if he decides to run for office, But she also said the president is not fighting to keep voting power strong enough.
When it comes to black people, not seeing or hearing what the president said was not taken very kindly," Crockett said. "When black people run, Democrats win. When black people stay home, Democrats lose."
Biden said last month that Democrats "wanted me to run." claimed. But a July Quinnipiac University poll found that just 24% of all Americans and 40% of Democrats said so, with the president's approval ratings dropping to his 40th for the second month in a row. %.
Biden can look to the president on the other side. Ronald Reagan became the oldest president at the time when he took office in 1981 at the age of 69.
A Washington Post and ABC News poll found that by the fall of Reagan's second year, inflation had soared, and six in 10 Americans believed Reagan should not be re-elected. By January of the following year, his approval rating had fallen to 35%. The following year, Reagan ran for re-election and won every state except Minnesota and the District of Columbia.
McAuliffe said that Republican Glenn Glenn was the only Republican to win the gubernatorial seat last November, even though Biden had outpaced Virginia by 10 points the year before. He said he lost to Youngkin, but the president and the Democrats had already won. Momentum and "age doesn't matter".
"He's at his best. And this party was in turmoil a year ago, with various elements of our party fighting each other," McAuliffe said. "We now have the united, enthusiastic and legislative party that all Americans have long desired."
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New York AP writer Michelle Price of Brooklyn, TN contributed to this report.