President Biden is reportedly “angry and anxious” about his struggling reelection campaign.
At a January meeting where advisers informed Biden of falling poll numbers in key states, Biden began yelling and cursing at staffers.
“President Joe Biden was seething,” NBC’s Peter Nicholas, Courtney Kube, and Carol E. Lee wrote. “In a private meeting at the White House in January, allies of the president had just told him that his poll numbers in Michigan and Georgia had dropped over his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas.”
“Both are battleground states he narrowly won four years ago, and he can’t afford any backsliding if he is to once again defeat Donald Trump. He began to shout and swear, a lawmaker familiar with the meeting said. He believed he had been doing what was right, despite the political fallout, he told the group, according to the lawmaker.”
Democrats are concerned about Biden’s polling and his ability to defeat Donald Trump, the likely 2024 Republican nominee.
“President Biden makes national security decisions based on the country’s national security needs alone — no other factor,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates argued.
Biden’s campaign promoted the unsubstantiated claim that Trump called for a “bloodbath,” but it collapsed quickly.
Democrats acknowledge the White House has struggled with messaging and communicating wins.
“Biden stood up in front of the whole world and said, ‘I’m ready. I’m the guy who can take down Donald Trump,’” Rep. Adam Smith said. “So, he goddamn well better do it. We don’t have time for him to be worried about whether or not people are saying things right or the poll numbers are where they should be. I want focused energy and not defensive anger.”
While some Democrats urge Biden to be more forceful, his advisers hope increased campaign travel will help turn things around.
“He’s probably a little mad at himself for not being more forceful with the staff,” one unnamed voter noted sarcastically.
“The president and his advisers have all been eager for him to be out there more and planned for that to take place at the start of the election year, as has been the norm for past incumbents seeking re-election,” another person said.
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