Democrats Hardest Hit as Joe Biden’s 2024 Campaign Strategy Emerges

Though President Joe Biden hasn’t officially announced he’s running for reelection, he’s said for months now that it was his “intention” to do so, and the plethora of articles that have been written over the last several months on the matter have noted that well-connected insiders say it’s likely to happen sometime in March or April.

As we get closer to that time, previews are emerging of the strategy Biden and his campaign team are said to be laying out to use over the next two years. According to the New York Times, it resembles 2020 in a lot of ways minus the basement part:

But as President Biden prepares to run for a second term, his team is mapping out a strategy for 2024 that in many other ways resembles that of 2020. Whether he ultimately faces Donald Trump again or another Republican trying to be like Trump, the president plans a campaign message that still boils down to three words: Competent beats crazy.

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The goal, according to interviews with White House officials, outside advisers, key allies and party strategists, is to frame the race as a contest, not a referendum on Biden.

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…Biden will travel frequently this year to deliver his message, aides said. As projects from the 2021 infrastructure package break ground, the president intends to cut a lot of ribbons around the country to take credit.

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Although Biden seems eager for a rematch [with Trump], it is hardly certain that he can replicate the 2020 outcome. Not only is his approval rating hovering at an anemic 43%, but two recent surveys, the Washington Post-ABC News poll and the Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll, found Trump leading by several points. Moreover, despite Biden’s legislative victories, 62% told the Post and ABC that he had accomplished “not very much” or “little or nothing.”

As readers will recall, in 2022 a large number of Democrats didn’t want Biden campaigning with them because they knew it wouldn’t go over well with voters in their districts/states to be seen with him. And Democrats faring better in the 2022 midterm elections than what was expected was (in my opinion) more about failed GOP campaign strategies headed into Election Day than it was a show of support for Joe Biden via his proxies.

This time around, Joe Biden’s name will be on the ballot. And no matter who his eventual general election Republican opponent is, Biden going on the campaign trail on a routine basis to sell his agenda and his presidency can and very likely will backfire on him and his fellow Democrats. Why?

Because if there’s one thing that has been reaffirmed about Biden over the last two years is that he’s a walking disaster when it comes to tooting his own horn – especially whenever he speaks in public, which is why his handlers often yell at and shove the press away from him like farmers herd cattle, and which is also why he often seems to go “missing” for a few days with very few knowing where exactly he is when he’s not sequestered away in his Delaware home.

Relatedly, we’re already hearing the ridiculous talking points in advance from his allies who are trying to downplay the age component to a second Biden presidency, with some insulting the intelligence of the American people by suggesting that Biden has more energy at 80 years of age than he did when he was in his 40s.

Not only do mountains of video evidence prove otherwise, but that is going to be an extremely tough sell the longer Biden gets dragged around to different parts of the country to deliver “the message.” Inevitably, Biden’s speeches are going to devolve into word salads no one can understand, to the point not even his handler-in-chief Jill Biden will be able to rescue him. And try as they might, the elephant in the room about Biden’s age along with the questions about mental acuity are going to grow to the point that not even his apologists in the media will be able to overlook these issues anymore.

Beyond that, Biden has given his eventual GOP opponent a lot of material to work with policy-wise, like his failures with respect to the border crisis, the Afghanistan debacle, his botched handling of the COVID pandemic, and inflation and economic woes.

Basically, Biden’s going to have his hands full going into 2024 trying to keep his stories straight, and his people putting him front and center out on the campaign trail when he can barely make it through a public speaking engagement without embarrassing himself is going to be a very risky strategy that they may end up regretting come Election Day. After all, voters in this country have shown in the past that they’re willing to go the so-called “crazy” route with who they pick for president whenever they’ve had enough of of the status quo, and 2024 just might be another one of those type years.