When asked on Thursday if she wanted to see President Joe Biden run for a second term in 2024, Michigan Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell termed it a “gotcha” question.
On Meet the Press Now, Dingell eventually said to NBC’s Kristen Welker, “If he wants to run, let’s see what he’s going to do.”
Biden’s poll numbers have been declining over the past year, and only Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips has stated he shouldn’t run again. However, other members of the president’s party have expressed caution.
Welker was informed by Dingell that she had invited Biden to visit Michigan in September in preparation for the midterm elections.
She reacted to Welker’s question regarding 2024 by saying, “But that is a gotcha question.”
I am one of those people who has argued for a very long time that politics is a long game and that the period from now till 2024 is very long, she remarked. So, after we keep the House, which we will, and the Senate in November, ask me that question, and then let’s start thinking about 2024.
Whether party leaders completely support a Biden reelection candidacy would probably depend on how well the Democrats performed in the midterm elections.
Given that the president’s party typically loses seats in the midterm elections, Democrats should be at a disadvantage.
But according to recent polls and results from a few early contests, November may not be a total disaster for the Democratic Party.
On Tuesday, Democrat Pat Ryan defeated Republican Marc Molinaro in a special election in a key New York seat.
In his campaign, Ryan made defending a woman’s right to an abortion a focal point.
Another indication for Democrats that their own base may be spurred by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is the resoundingly pro-abortion vote earlier this month in Kansas.
While President Barack Obama enjoyed the same level of support when the Democrats suffered a “shellacking,” as the former president described it, in the 2010 midterm elections, Biden reached a 44 percent approval rating on Thursday, his highest mark of the year, according to the Gallup poll.
With a busier campaign schedule anticipated after Labor Day, Biden began his campaigning Thursday night in suburban Maryland.
Democrats, according to him, must be “very clear” about what they stand for.
Will we be a nation of harmony, optimism, and optimism rather than one marked by hostility, violence, hatred, and division?
“Trump and the far-right MAGA Republicans have decided.” To regress, filled with rage, violence, hatred, and division,” stated Biden. But we took a another route.