President Biden remains the overwhelming favorite to be the Democrats’ nominee for 2024. He has no serious challengers and looks likely to announce his own bid soon. His job approval with Democrats hovers in the low 80s in recent polls. Presidents with this type of support from their own party usually sweep to renomination.
Yet those same polls display clear worrying signs. The same Economist-YouGov poll that showed Biden with 81 percent job approval with Democrats also found only 48 percent want him to run again. This is similar to a Marquette Law School poll in March that found only 43 percent of Democratic primary voters want Biden to run again. Those are startlingly low numbers for an incumbent president who is not warring with an important segment of his party. CONTINUED
Henry Olsen, Washington Post
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