Conversations that were once gossiped in private are spilling out into the public amid angst over a possible drubbing for the party in this fall’s midterm elections and existential questions regarding its future two years later.
Biden’s approval ratings haven’t recovered from a swoon late last summer, inflation is now sky high and concerns are increasing regarding a recession.
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It’s left some Democrats questioning out loud whether the party requires a different and younger leader in the upcoming presidential race.
“I think that Joe will run again, and his age will be a legitimate issue for many voters,” entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who competed against Biden for the Democratic nomination in 2020 before switching to be an independent, told The Hill.
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“Joe is already the oldest president we’ve had even before his potential second term,” he announced.
Polls offer more proof of a fixation on age.
A Harvard-Harris Poll survey out this month showed that 62 percent of respondents announced that Biden is “showing he is too old to be president.”
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The Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich launched his piece last week with this opener: “Let me put this bluntly: Joe Biden should not run for reelection in 2024. He is too old.”
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On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board followed up with a stinging appraisal: “The truth is that the President demonstrated he had lost a verbal, and maybe mental, step in the first Democratic candidate debate in 2019. He hasn’t improved.”
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Different polls don’t focus on the president’s age yet present similarly bad news for Team Biden. A poll by YouGov and Yahoo out this week found that 64 percent of those sampled announced they did not want Biden to seek the highest office another time.
“Look, it’s a problem,” one Democratic strategist acknowledged, talking without attribution in order to address a sensitive topic.
“He’s f—— old and everyone knows it, though no one wants to talk regarding it for fear of offending him or anyone around him.”
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One Biden ally who talks to aides in the White House frequently announced that Biden “looks old and seems old and that’s not a great look for the White House.”
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In this person’s estimation, the issue that’s more important than age is stamina.
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“It all comes back to endurance and can he handle the job,” the ally stated. “I still think that the answer is yes. But ask me how I feel a couple of years from now.”
The White House did not provide a comment when reached on Tuesday.
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