In the weeks since Trump announced his campaign, he has made headlines for dining with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and Kanye West, who’s been widely condemned for making antisemitic comments. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jen O’Malley Dillon, who ran Biden’s 2020 campaign, and senior advisor Anita Dunn are managing political messaging other longtime hands including Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Steve Ricchetti and Mike Donilon are involved in campaign strategy.Įfforts include launching a new webpage touting the administration’s legislative record hours before Trump announced his run at his Mar-a-Lago estate.ĭuring the former president’s speech, Biden’s Twitter account posted a video titled “Donald Trump Failed America,” with flickering scenes from Trump’s four years in office. Inside the White House, officials have spent months preparing for a potential Biden-Trump rematch. “It’ll depend on whether House Republicans will focus on issues that matter to the American people or a bunch of investigations into the administration that the American people have made clear they don’t care about.”įewer than 3 in 10 Americans said they want Congress to focus on presidential impeachment investigations or on the business dealings of the president’s son Hunter Biden, according to a Morning Consult poll released in November.
It’s not just the nominee.” said Ben LaBolt, a former Obama spokesman who remains close to the White House. Many people “will define the Republican Party and the Republican nominee heading into 2024. The White House plans to use the same playbook to draw a contrast to congressional Republicans, who have vowed to investigate the Biden administration when they take control of the House of Representatives in January. They plan to stick with the same formula in 2024: Paint Republicans as extremists who are beholden to Trump while the president hits the road to highlight the impact of his legislative wins on infrastructure, tackling climate change and boosting semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. West Wing officials feel vindicated, Biden aides and advisors say. The 2022 election marked the first time since 1934 that Democrats gained both Senate seats and governorships in a midterm while controlling the White House. Glenn Youngkin and former Vice President Mike Pence, are eyeing White House runs, Biden officials and Democrats are determined to make Trump the face of the GOP - a tactic that helped the party in November’s unexpectedly strong midterm election results, and one they hope will be successful in a 2024 matchup.īiden began his presidency selectively mentioning his predecessor, referring to him only as “the former guy.” But ahead of last month’s election, he assailed Republicans who supported Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement and linked the party with an extremist agenda that he said was focused on rolling back abortion rights and amplifying Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election.Ĭritics said the president should have focused on pocketbook issues like inflation and the economy, but abortion and threats to democracy turned out to be motivating issues that helped Democrats outperform historical trends. Biden will be just shy of 82 on election day 2024.īiden’s party, though, is acting as though he is running - already hiring media operatives in key states.Īlthough other Republicans, including Florida Gov. president - already older than President Reagan was upon leaving office after two terms. At 80, he is the oldest person to serve as U.S.
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