President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is looking to boost and give more airtime to an unlikely individual in its bid for four more years in the White House - former President Donald Trump.
The Biden campaign is reportedly looking to put Trump back in the spotlight in an effort to make a potential 2024 general election matchup more about the former president than the current president, according to the New York Times.
The report suggests Democrats are pushing for more coverage of his rallies and more headlines from the former president, who has relegated most of his social media postings to Truth Social, skipped the first three GOP debates, and has held few campaign rallies. Trump not being in the White House, and not having the constant coverage a commander in chief receives, has also hurt enthusiasm for the unpopular current president.
“Not having the day-to-day chaos of Donald Trump in people’s faces certainly has an impact on how people are measuring the urgency of the danger of another Trump administration,” Adrianne Shropshire, the executive director of BlackPAC, told the New York Times. “It is important to remind people of what a total and absolute disaster Trump was.”
Biden's campaign has attempted to campaign on his economic record and legislation, such as the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act, but his approval ratings continue to be underwater and he is losing to most GOP candidates head-to-head in several recent polls.
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Democrats still appear to be eager for Trump to be the GOP nominee, as his approval ratings are also very low, but a string of bruising polls shows that even the most vulnerable Republican could defeat Biden next fall.
Trump is currently the GOP front-runner by a wide margin, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, and has a slight edge in the national polling of a hypothetical general election against Biden. Several recent polls, including the New York Times-Siena College surveys in six battleground states, show Biden in trouble electorally against Trump even in several key voting blocs.