Despite Joe Biden’s low marks in the White House and dismal approval rating, the 80-year-old is making another run for the presidency.
A recent USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll found that of those who voted for Biden in 2020, 40 percent of them said he should not run for another term. What is more devastating to the octogenarian is that 35 percent of respondents said they would vote for a third-party candidate over Biden, even if it meant President Donald Trump would win the White House again.
Biden still faces a primary challenge from attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and author Marianne Williamson.
Biden tapped his senior advisor and White House director of intergovernmental affairs, Julie Chávez Rodríguez, to be his campaign manager.
In Biden’s announcement video, he harped on abortion and defending “democracy” as issues he is putting front and center in his 2024 bid for the White House.
Far-left members of Congress and one governor have already been named his campaign co-chairs, including U.S. Reps. Lisa Blunt-Rochester, Jim Clyburn, Veronica Escobar and Jeffrey Katzenberg, Sens. Chris Coons and Tammy Duckworth, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Biden has also changed his campaign logo from the three red lines in the “E” of his name now appearing to be a gradient swervy pattern.
On the Republican side, President Trump has taken a massive lead for the 2024 nomination, while all other candidates trail him by double digits, including Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has not yet announced his run for the presidency.