Despite low approval ratings and an administration currently under investigation by the House of Representatives for weaponizing the federal government, President Biden continues to assure America that he will run for reelection in 2024. The assurance was repeated Sunday by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
As Fox News reports:
Asked by host Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” whether an official announcement will be made soon on a Biden-Harris 2024 ticket, Jean-Pierre coyly replied that she can’t talk about politics because she’s limited by the HATCH Act, but “what I can say is repeat what the president has said many times is that he intends to run. And I leave it there.”
Biden’s presidency has been plagued from the beginning. It has been clear to anyone with even elementary observation skills that Biden’s mind has been slipping since before the announcement of his campaign. On the campaign trail, he announced he was running for the Senate, mixed up two of his granddaughters, called one of his granddaughters by her dead father’s name, routinely forgot where he was speaking, and went into long, embarrassing, rambling soliloquies about children sitting on his lap or rubbing his leg hairs. And far from climbing out of the mire, his mental performance since the election has been a downhill slide approaching free fall.
After two years in office — considered to be the homestretch where reelection is concerned — Biden’s approval rating is abysmal. In fact, Biden — whose approval rating hovered in the low to mid-50s for the first few months in office — has not seen a positive rating in almost a year and a half. The last day he enjoyed an approval rating that was higher than his disapproval rating was August 25, 2021 — and even that “approval rating” was well below 50 percent.
And while Biden has not made an official announcement that he will run, the statement by Jean-Pierre is not the only indication that he will. Following Biden’s State of the Union address, Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee, announced that Biden will run in 2024 and predicted that he is “going to win.”
Of course, the election is still a long way off, and Biden’s health — especially his mental health — is a major concern. Any further decline could put Democrats back to the drawing board where plans for 2024 are concerned. To complicate matters for Democrats, it appears unlikely that they intend to replace Vice President Kamala Harris on the 2024 ticket.
That would mean that whoever gets the Republican nomination will be running against a Democratic ticket that boasts low approval ratings for both candidates. In a fair election, that would almost certainly spell a major Republican victory. But given the recent trend for elections, anything could happen.
