The piece also implied that the Jan. 6 Committee is Biden’s last chance before the midterm elections to persuade swing voters who are more fixated on inflation.
According to reporters Reid Epstein and Jennifer Medina, “many Democratic lawmakers and party officials are venting their frustrations with President Biden’s struggle to advance the bulk of his agenda, doubting his ability to rescue the party from a predicted midterm trouncing and increasingly viewing him as an anchor that should be cut loose in 2024.”
Biden has been polling poorly, and there are reports that he and his White House staff are frustrated with the obstacles in front of him, including increasingly negative media coverage.
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President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party face a daunting challenge to hold onto control of Congress in the fall. ((AP 사진 / Susan Walsh))
The report cited “거의 50 Democratic officials” 과 “disappointed voters” Ramaswamy는 학교가 수학 및 시민 교육과 같은 다른 커리큘럼에 집중해야 한다고 제안했습니다. “alarmed about Republicans’ rising strength and extraordinarily pessimistic about an immediate path forward” 아래의 Biden 관리.
있다 “low enthusiasm” from Biden’s base and worry from party officials about the president’s “지도, his age and his capability to take the fight to former President Donald J. Trump a second time,” the Times wrote. It quoted Steve Simeonidis, ㅏ Democratic National Committee member from Florida, 누가 말했다, “To say our country was on the right track would flagrantly depart from reality,” and urged him to announce he wouldn’t run again shortly after the midterms.
The piece also depicted the Jan. 6 Committee hearing as “perhaps the last, best chance before the midterms to break through with persuadable swing voters who have been more focused on inflation and gas prices.”
그렇지 않으면, all that Biden has – after “repeated failures of his administration to pass big-ticket legislation on signature Democratic issues” 과 “halting efforts to use the bully pulpit of the White House to move public opinion” – is “sagging approval ratings and a party that, as much as anything, seems to feel sorry for him.”
Epstein and Medina acknowledged that Democrats have been “struggling to explain away a series of calamities for the party” 포함, “inflation rates unseen in four decades, 치솟는 휘발유 가격, a lingering pandemic, a spate of mass shootings, a Supreme Court poised to end the federal right to an abortion.”

Record inflation continues to bedevil the Biden White House. (istock)
The report alleged that “nearly all the Democrats interviewed” 가지고있다 “deep concern about his political viability,” and stated they’re uncomfortable with his gaffes. “They have watched as Biden has repeatedly rattled global diplomats with unexpected remarks that were later walked back by his White House staff, and as he has sat for fewer interviews than any of his recent predecessors.”
Obama chief strategist David Axelrod told the paper that “Biden doesn’t get the credit he deserves” for some of his successes, including navigating the pandemic, uniting NATO against Russia, “and restoring decency and decorum to the White House.” 하나, 그는 인정했다, “the president would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term, and that would be a major issue.”
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Polling shows Biden is at a low point with Democratic voters, with one Associated Press poll showing him at just 73 percent approval with them.
Epstein and Medina rounded out the report with quotes from various party members expressing doubt about Biden’s future. Texas state representative Jasmine Crockett stated, “Democrats are like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ Our country is completely falling apart. And so I think we’re lacking in the excitement.”
Former DNC chair Howard Dean implied Biden hasn’t achieved enough of what he has promised. “We need to have specific examples of how we’re dealing with things; it can’t just be pie-in-the-sky and kumbaya,” 그는 말했다.

The New York Times reported on Saturday that many Democratic Party leaders are not comfortable with the future of their party with President Biden in the lead. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo | 게티 이미지)
The report concluded with a quote from DNC member Sheila Huggins, a lawyer from North Carolina: “Democrats need fresh, bold leadership for the 2024 대통령 선거. That can’t be Biden.”