While the media has nothing but the public hearings of the commission investigating the January 6, 2021 assault, the Democratic president continues to sink and his approval rating is only 39%, down for the third time in a row.
The Democrats are more and more worried and less and less discreet on the subject. With the exception of a few states like Georgia, we will avoid associating Joe Biden with the candidates for the midterm election in November.
In itself, it is not exceptional or abnormal that following the first two years of a mandate, a president is not popular. What is is that heavyweights like David Axelrod, journalist and political adviser, are already expressing doubts regarding a candidacy for 2024 so early on.
Everything is going too fast
In April 2021, I split myself from a text on a possible second term and I ended the title with a question mark. I withdraw it without reservation. Of course, the 46e president did not benefit from a favorable context, but everything is going too fast for him.
The one who has already embodied compromise and inspired confidence, if only as an option to Donald Trump, has been unable to carry out many of his most promising projects. Democrats are divided and Biden no longer has the necessary grip.
If the midterm elections are as bad as announced, Joe Biden will already be seen as “lame duck“, a lame duck that will constitute a weight for the election of 2024.
Too old
I mentioned David Axelrod’s doubts above. Among the factors he puts forward to rule out Biden, there is one that may offend some sensibilities: age. Even if he is one of the rare observers to affirm it, the former adviser to Obama is not alone in believing that at 82 years old, Biden would be too old in 2024.
For strategists, it doesn’t matter whether Biden’s record includes highlights like restoring relations with NATO countries and delivering a generous economic stimulus package, or whether he has brought ethics and normalcy back to the White House, he is old and, above all, he looks like it.
Once energetic and a lively speaker, he has lost his luster. Looking at him, one retains of his advanced age only the limits of aging without taking advantage of his vast experience. Rather than seeing him as a sage, he is seen as a politician from another era.
Being President of the United States is exhausting, and younger men have testified to the brutal nature of this stressful job. Joe Biden did what was expected of him, he took Trump out. His departure is now desirable, but it comes with a question to which few analysts or members of the Democratic Party venture to offer an answer: who will replace him?
