By Two months after leaving the White House, former President Joe Biden is showing signs of reentering the political sphere—not to run for office, but to support a Democratic Party struggling to regain direction after its 2024 defeat.
People close to the matter say Biden has privately told party leaders he’s willing to campaign, raise funds, and help wherever needed, particularly as former President Donald Trump aggressively moves to unravel key Democratic policies. For some unexplained reason, some in the party think it’s a good idea, but not everyone is especially enthusiastic about President Auto Pen rejoining the fray, writes NBC News.
Biden privately met last month with the new Democratic National Committee chairman, Ken Martin, and offered to help as the party struggles to regain its viability amid polling that shows its popularity has been sinking, the people said.
So far, Biden’s overture seems to have fallen flat. Democrats find themselves adrift, casting about for a compelling messenger.
Whoever that is, it’s not Biden, many party activists and donors contend. He’s tethered to the 2024 defeat and, at 82, is a symbol more of the party’s past than its future, they argue.
“Who’s going to want Joe Biden back in the game?” said a major Biden supporter, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk candidly about him.
Public opinion has shown that Democrats are one of the most unpopular major political parties in American history, reported CNN. Its “favorability rating among Americans stands at a record low, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, fueled in part by dimming views from its own frustrated supporters.
With many in the party saying publicly that their leaders should do more to stand up to President Donald Trump, Democrats and Democratic-aligned independents say, 57% to 42%, that Democrats should mainly work to stop the Republican agenda, rather than working with the GOP majority to get some Democratic ideas into legislation.
The survey was taken March 6-9, days before 10 Democratic senators — including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — voted with Republicans in the chamber to advance a GOP-authored spending bill to avert a government shutdown, much to the chagrin of many other Democratic lawmakers and progressive critics.
Among the American public overall, the Democratic Party’s favorability rating stands at just 29% – a record low in CNN’s polling dating back to 1992 and a drop of 20 points since January 2021, when Trump exited his first term under the shadow of the January 6 attack at on Capitol. The Republican Party’s rating currently stands at 36%.”
Outside the public eye, the Bidens are settling into post-presidential life. Both plan to write memoirs, and the former president has stayed engaged with former top advisors such as Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, according to NBC News. He continues his familiar commute between Delaware and Washington, a routine dating back to his Senate days.
Since Donald Trump easily defeated Kamala Harris in the election, Biden has gone after the Democratic leaders who forced him out of the election, insisting he would have beaten Trump.
His statements allegedly have created a “grudge” between the former president and Harris, who “told her closest confidants that she’s disappointed President Biden claimed in a recent interview that he could have won the 2024 election had he been allowed to face Donald Trump,” noted The New York Post.
Harris allies believe the comment by Biden demonstrated the “one-sided loyalty” that has marked the pair’s alliance, with the veep reluctant to criticize or distance herself from her boss.
‘Who cares?’ one former Biden official told The Post in response to the reported rift. ‘She is done.’”
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