Revealed in a re-election campaign strategy memo a year before the election
Chavez Rodriguez, campaign director, confident of voter support
With one year left before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign plan appears to largely repeat the themes used in 2020, contrasting with Trump’s efforts to attract supporters, the Associated Press reported.
AP reported this on the 2nd (local time) based on the White House’s election strategy memo obtained exclusively.
Julie Chavez Rodriguez, President Biden’s re-election campaign director, assured that the Democratic Party’s campaign team was already focused on the “very imminent” presidential and general elections, regardless of the Republican presidential primary.
However, in the memo obtained by AP, instead of a new strategy, it said, “The messages that President Biden presented in 2020 remain popular with voters and are at the center of this election campaign.”
“The President and Vice President will differentiate themselves from whoever becomes the Republican MAGA (Make America Great Again) candidate by using a powerful message that still has a powerful impact on voters,” Rodriguez’s memo reads.
Rodriguez continued, “This election campaign will continue to do what the Biden administration is doing and win, no matter what the outside world says. “We will do exactly what we won in 2020,” he wrote.
This memo is surprisingly similar to what President Biden has been saying to voters at campaign rallies, “Please let me finish what I’m doing.” At the same time, it appears that they are focusing on using the results of this election as a referendum to block Trump.
However, the MAGA movement and slogans are still gaining strong support and popularity even after former President Trump was indicted in federal court on four counts and 91 criminal counts.
Results of national opinion polls show that if the presidential election were held today, Biden and Trump would be in a close race. The presidential election voting day is exactly one year from this Sunday.
However, one thing that was overlooked in the memo from Biden’s campaign headquarters was the public’s concerns about the 80-year-old president. According to the results of a joint AP-NORC poll from August this year, 77% of American adults (including 69% of Democrats) said President Biden is too old to effectively perform the duties of president for another four years.
However, according to Rodriguez’s own research ahead of 2024, President Biden’s economic policies, support for the middle class, and efforts to eliminate racial discrimination have a solid support base, and based on this, he will be able to mobilize voters who have not yet decided (on support) and attract them to the support base. “I am optimistic.
He states in a memo that in next year’s presidential election, American voters will break with ‘MAGA extremism’ and overwhelmingly support Biden’s green energy and health and welfare system improvements.
However, public opinion poll results do not give Biden very generous scores. AP analyzed that only about 4 out of 10 American adults approved of the president’s ability to carry out his duties, and about two-thirds opposed Biden’s economic policies.
A September AP-NORC poll found that Biden’s deal to lower Medicare drug prices was overwhelmingly popular (three-quarters approved), but they were also divided on Biden’s policies on prescription drug prices.
In a June opinion poll, 58% of people opposed Biden’s abortion law policy, and only 4 out of 10 supported it.
It is unknown what the outcome will be if public opinion turns to macroeconomic issues in the future, but as revealed in this memo, Biden’s presidential headquarters is expected to persuade the public by once again emphasizing the agenda of the last election.
Source: Donga
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