2022-06-11
27 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
Today, the soul searching in the Democratic Party as the midterms and then 2024 approach.
On the 2020 campaign trail.
About a week after several surprising victories, on Super Tuesday, Joe Biden gave a speech in Detroit.
And in that speech, he said, look, I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else.
Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer were there campaigning for Biden.
And he pointed to them and said.
There'S an entire generation of leaders you.
Saw stand behind me.
They are the future of this country.
Biden had made similar comments in the past, but many people understood his words that day to mean one specific, that Biden planned to be a one term president.
A lot of people interpreted that as him saying, all I'm here to do is just get rid of this guy who's president and then we'll talk about what comes next.
But he, unbeknownst to a lot of real people, has hated the idea of only running for one term.
That's Gabriel debenedetti.
He's the national correspondent at New York Magazine.
Gabe says no matter how many times Biden says he's gonna run again, that interpretation of a one term pledge has stuck.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll found that only 3 in 10Americans think that Biden will seek a second term.
And given Biden's age, he'll turn 80 this year, the oldest president ever and his current approval rating around 40%, about the same as Trump's at the same time in his presidency, at least some Democrats are now asking, what is the backup plan?
There is a backup plan, right?