Stubbornness is Biden’s greatest vice. It’s also one of his strongest virtues. Now, he’s stubbornly planning to run for reelection. Will it pay off?
Today is Joe Biden’s 80th birthday. Our first octogenarian president is two years older than Ronald Reagan was when his presidency ended in 1989.
This year, it drove his popularity down when he brushed off warnings of rising inflation and stuck to an economic message — “things are better than you think” — that seemed disconnected from voters’ lives. This fall, Biden decided the most important issue in the midterm elections was democracy — the defense of constitutional norms against the extremism of “ultra-MAGA Republicans.”
In that campaign, candidate Biden won the Democratic nomination through sheer stubbornness, too. He finished fourth in Iowa and a disastrous fifth in New Hampshire, but stuck with a strategy that relied on winning Black voters in South Carolina and outlasting his rivals. People around him say the midterm results plus Trump’s entry into the race merely confirmed a decision Biden had already made.
Asked whether polling that shows most voters don’t want him to run will affect his thinking, Biden said: “It doesn’t.”
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