President Joe Biden is increasingly looking like a candidate for reelection, but the latest controversies encircling his White House raise new questions about whether Democrats should welcome that fact.
The pendulum on Biden’s reelection swung back in his favor after Democrats successfully weathered the midterm elections, retaining the Senate and minimizing House losses. Biden was not immediately reduced to lame-duck status.But Republicans did win the House and will be in a position to give fresh scrutiny to the shady business dealings of Hunter Biden. This comes on top of a classified documents scandal that is of the president’s own making.
Rank-and-file Democrats have been telling pollsters they would prefer a different nominee than Biden for months. During the midterm elections, two-thirds of all voters said they didn’t want him to run for reelection. David Axelrod, the former Obama adviser who remains an influential Democratic establishment figure, signaled as much last year. “The presidency is a monstrously taxing job, and the stark reality is the president would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term and that would be a major issue,” he said.
Biden was left for dead after disastrous early showings in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, which followed months of sleepwalking through Democratic presidential debates in 2019-20. But he won the South Carolina primary handily and was then on a glide path to the nomination.
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