There are some aides who are close to President Joe Biden who are worried about whether he has a plan in place that’s serious enough, and good enough, to take down Republican Donald Trump at the polls for a second time.
According to multiple media reports, this has become evident to some of the aides when the president speaks. He often doesn’t express a solid plan on how he’s going to deal with, for instance, the southern border, persistent inflation, conflicts around the world and much more.
To many, it appears that Biden’s plan for taking down Trump is to simply repeat that he’s not Trump — and hope for the best.
Fox News reported recently that some liberal strategists, as well as direct advisers to Biden, are saying they’re concerned about the leadership and direction of the Biden campaign. All of this is coming with a little more than four months until November’s election.
One strategist who regularly communicates with the campaign told Axios recently that he doesn’t even know if the president’s inner circle has a plan in place to defeat Trump. As the source said:
“It is unclear to many of us watching from the outside whether the president and his core team realize how dire the situation is right now, and whether they even have a plan to fix it.”
Axios also reported that some other advisers are feeling pressure to stay quiet in meetings, and this is especially true when Biden and some of his longest-serving aides are present.
As another anonymous source told Axios:
“Even for those close to the center, there is a hesitance to raise skepticism or doubt about the current path, for fear of being viewed as disloyal. … There is not a discussion that a change of course is needed.”
To many people both inside and outside of the Biden campaign, one of the president’s greatest weaknesses is that he somehow believes he’s doing an amazing job in the White House — even as public opinion polls are suggesting that most Americans believe the very opposite is true.
Simply relying on the fact that he’s not Trump probably won’t be enough to beat Trump come November. That may have worked for him last time around, when many people seemed to fade in their support of Trump, but it doesn’t look like that will repeat itself.
Biden can only blame that on himself. If he had done well over these last four years as the head of the country, then maybe things would’ve been different.
But, the fact is that he hasn’t done a good job, and many people know it. He’s going to have big obstacles to overcome to convince voters in the middle or on the fence to even show up at the polls, let alone vote for him.
That’s what put Biden over the top last time, but it’s possible that Trump is going to use his opponent’s record in the White House the last four years against him — just as Biden did to Trump in 2020.
