President Joe Biden is just as low in the White House’s internal polls as in any of the public ones.
Whenever aides stress over the numbers in their weekly political meetings, Mike Donilon — for decades, Biden’s top political adviser — is the consistent voice of the president’s innermost circle, according to people who have heard him. Biden’s numbers, Donilon says, are pretty much where they were this far out from the 2022 midterms and all the doubts sounded the same; but the president’s team pursued its own careful approach to the campaigns and then saw Democrats exceed expectations.
A better-known candidate with clearer appeal entering the primary was always closer to “The West Wing” reboot fan fiction, though Biden advisers kept tabs on potential threats — and very deliberately co-opted those potential future ambitions by naming most of them to the campaign’s “advisory board” or as top surrogates. That is where those potential future candidates say they are happy to be — at least for now. “The train is out of the station. It’s time for everyone to get on board.
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