Biden looks to the Left as he fights to hold on to 2024 nomination
By
Christian Datoc
July 18, 2024 7:00 am
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Progressives helped lift President Joe Biden to the presidency in 2020, and he’s going for broke in recent days trying to shore up his support among that segment of the Democratic Party in the final months of the 2024 election.
The president has spent all of July working to reassure Democrats he remains fit enough to perform the duties of office, including after testing positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, but those outreach efforts have coincided with a number of official policy decisions catered directly to progressives.
Multiple veteran Democratic operatives and the Biden campaign itself disputed the idea that the president is extending olive branches to progressives, arguing instead that Biden has remained constant on these issues since the 2020 campaign.
“Politically, President Biden isn’t the same man he was during his time in the Senate or vice presidency,” one Democratic strategist with insight into Biden’s campaign told the Washington Examiner. “What you’re describing to me is someone who listens to what his voters want, someone who, because of MAGA Republican obstruction, is outlining his plan for accomplishing things he couldn’t get done in his first term. That’s Joe Biden.”
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