Democratic President Joe Biden is “angry and worried” about his struggling re-election campaign, according to NBC News.
The situation inside the White House is so bad that during a recent meeting where advisers informed Biden of declining poll numbers in battleground states such as Michigan and Georgia, Biden began yelling and swearing at staffers. Ta.
“President Joe Biden was excited” NBC’s Peter Nicholas, Courtney Cube and Carol E. Lee I have written on sunday. “At a closed-door meeting at the White House in January, the president’s allies said his poll numbers in Michigan and Georgia had fallen over the president’s handling of the war between Israel and Hamas. Both are battleground states that Trump narrowly won four years ago, and he can’t afford to back down if he wants to defeat Donald Trump again, according to a lawmaker familiar with the meeting. began shouting and cursing. The lawmaker said he told the group that despite the political fallout, he believed he was doing the right thing.
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 13, 2024 (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
White House press secretary Andrew Bates told NBC News in January about the incident, saying, “President Biden makes national security decisions based solely on national security needs, and other factors are not considered.” I haven’t taken it into consideration.”
But no matter how the White House and Biden campaign interpret the situation, the facts are clear. Biden is currently losing this election. Biden has only gotten worse since January. According to opinion polls in nearly every battleground state, former President Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential candidate and seen as Mr. Biden’s opponent in the general election, has a wide lead over the current president.
Biden campaign officials further exaggerated the fake attacks against President Trump this weekend, claiming they are calling for a “bloodbath” in the United States if Trump does not win in November. The Biden campaign, Democratic Party officials, and their established media allies are using the same phrase that President Trump used at a campaign rally in Ohio this weekend to use as a cudgel against the auto industry if Biden wins. They have explained what will happen and blatantly pushed their artificial narrative that President Trump represents the Democratic Party. Threat to democracy. This latest hoax, which collapsed as fast as the Delawareans who created it could, is that nothing stands in their way and everything is going Trump’s way this year. It seems like a signal of Team Biden’s desperation. Biden officials are constantly on the attack and insisting on defending Trump, but the Democratic president’s top allies told NBC News they are running into a brick wall with voters. .
Former Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, on March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)
For example, Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) is quoted in the article as saying it’s time for Biden to step up and prove he can lead the Democratic Party.
“Biden stood in front of the whole world and said, ‘I’m ready.’ I’m the guy who can beat Donald Trump,” Smith said. “So, he better do it. He doesn’t have time to worry about whether people are saying the right things, whether the poll numbers are in the right place, etc. What I’m looking for is defense. It’s not just anger, it’s focused energy.”
Other Democrats, like Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), have effusively praised Biden but have criticized Democrats’ message on behalf of Biden. He appeared to be quoted by the NBC News reporting team as saying that he understood that he was not able to communicate the message. And he criticized the White House’s failure to communicate what Biden’s team sees as a victory on policy issues.
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday, March 7, 2024, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
Other unnamed Democrats were also quoted, suggesting they were angry that Biden had not been “more forceful” with White House staff.
A source said, “He may be a little angry at himself for not treating the staff more forcefully.”
But top campaign advisers suggested to NBC News that they are hopeful that things may improve now that Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are a little more campaign-focused.
“The president and his advisers are all keen to see him more prominent, and as has been the norm for past incumbents seeking re-election, it may be difficult to do so at the beginning of an election year,” one source said. It was planned to happen,” he said.
