The aggressive overreach of the Biden administration is no longer just a problem for concerned citizens. Even the leadership of President Joe Biden’s own party is starting to feel crowded out, The Hill reported.
Insiders at the Democratic National Committee said the level of input from their White House counterparts has been excessive when it comes to coordinating Biden’s 2024 re-election plans.
“People are super frustrated in the trenches around what’s happening with the DNC and the White House’s control of it,” an anonymous DNC source told The Hill.
“The White House is not thinking about how to build the electorate writ large, but they’re concentrating on [a] few states,” the source continued. “It’s all about [the] presidential reelect.”
Biden’s mental faculties are already revealing signs of serious deterioration, which has left many skeptical that the 78-year-old president will finish his current term.
Footage this week appeared to show him wandering aimlessly around the White House hedges following an event.
President Biden returns to the White House after spending time in Wilmington, Delaware pic.twitter.com/RopGCgStGR
— The Hill (@thehill) August 10, 2021
Moreover, a growing public discontent over policy failures—including inflation, open-borders, rising crime rates, Critical Race Theory, a pandemic-era attack on civil liberties, diminished global standing and ethical issues surrounding the Biden family—all threaten to take a devastating toll that will undermine Democrats’ campaign messaging.
The National Pulse reported recently that 51% of Americans had a negative outlook about the present and future direction of the economy—the highest level pessimism since 2015.
“This torrent of weak numbers reveals a hobbled politician, and one without the kind of hyper-loyal base his predecessor enjoyed,” the Pulse noted.
With Biden’s approval ratings plummeting and Vice President Kamala Harris likewise facing historically low popularity numbers, Republicans already have set their sights on everything from retaking Congress in the 2022 midterm election to reclaiming California in a special gubernatorial recall election next month.
Yet, echoing Biden’s own claim in March that he would run again, DNC insiders confirmed that he is “clearly posturing” to do so—and now risks dragging down the party that artificially bolstered him into the Oval Office as a desperate last resort in 2020.
Democrats complain that they are stuck in a holding pattern, unable to cultivate—openly, at least—any viable alternatives to what could potentially be a geriatric rematch between Biden and former President Donald Trump. (Trump, who is roughly four years younger than Biden, has yet to show the same signs of physical and mental decline.)
DNC sources largely blamed their dilemma on the overbearing presence of top Biden adviser Steve Ricchetti, whom they described as “pivotal politically,” said The Hill.
“Nothing moves without Ricchetti’s sign-off,” a source said.
They also feared that new DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison lacked either the will or the organizational footing to push back against Biden campaign operatives.
“What’s happening is a bit of a split within the DNC between ‘Team Biden’ and people who are trying to run an election cycle,” said a DNC source. “I think that Jaime Harrison is definitely caught in the middle of this.”
That may be creating frightening flashbacks to 2016 for some longtime party loyalists, who recall how former President Barack Obama’s domineering stranglehold on the party—and his narcissistic fixation with his own campaign arm, Organizing for America—left the DNC structurally depleted and deep in debt by the time of Hillary Clinton‘s failed presidential campaign.
As a result, congressional losses mounted during both of Obama’s midterm races, putting Republicans in firm control of both the House and Senate at the start of Trump’s presidency.
Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign’s financial leverage over the DNC helped create an intra-party scandal that brought down then-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz after the organization was exposed for colluding with Clinton to freeze out dark-horse candidate Bernie Sanders.
Like the Obama campaign, Biden’s handlers have displayed the same level of preoccupation with their own success—to the detriment of down-ballot races.
However, Biden lacks the political upside of his former boss, who could at least assure that someone was holding the reins.
By contrast, Biden’s hemorrhaging of popular support has nothing to help stanch the bleeding.
“There are literally almost no hardcore Joe Biden partisans,” the National Pulse observed.
Thus, like the rest of the country suffering the throes of buyer’s remorse, even the DNC is left resorting to a sort of fatalistic stoicism about the future.
“Biden is the leader of our party. Direction is going to come from him, right or wrong,” a DNC source told the Hill. “I’m not happy about it either, but I’m used to it.”
