{"id":533959,"date":"2023-01-02T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/biden-faces-questions-over-whether-he-can-beat-desantis\/"},"modified":"2023-01-02T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T17:00:00","slug":"biden-faces-questions-over-whether-he-can-beat-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/biden-faces-questions-over-whether-he-can-beat-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden faces questions over whether he can beat DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2950da6cf27\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2950da6cf27\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/biden-faces-questions-over-whether-he-can-beat-desantis\/#Biden_faces_questions_over_whether_he_can_beat_DeSantis\" >Biden faces questions over whether he can beat DeSantis<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Biden_faces_questions_over_whether_he_can_beat_DeSantis\"><\/span>Biden faces questions over whether he can beat DeSantis<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/illustration_bidenjoe_122322mm-gn_biden-running.png?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Biden is entering the new year riding high off a better-than-expected midterm election performance for his party that has improved his political standing while damaging his chief GOP rival \u2014 former President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Biden also enters the new year with lingering questions over his age and his overall political strength \u2014 most notably whether he can defeat a different Republican in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis if he is the GOP nominee in 2024.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>DeSantis has said he\u2019s focused on his job in Florida and, unlike Trump, he\u2019s not officially in the 2024 race. But he\u2019s expected to come under pressure to get in as Republicans look for a stronger candidate in 2024 than the former president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Trump\u2019s image has been tarnished by the GOP\u2019s dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointing midterm elections, DeSantis coasted to reelection in Florida as Republicans overall in his state performed strongly.<\/p>\n<p>If Biden had a good midterm, DeSantis had a great one, and he\u2019d represent a very different kind of challenge than Trump for Biden \u2014 if he were to defeat Trump in a GOP primary.<\/p>\n<p>Cristina Antelo, a Democratic strategist who runs Ferox Strategies, said Biden\u2019s age remains a concern among Democratic voters, despite a string of legislative accomplishments by Democrats under Biden \u2014 and his party\u2019s midterm performance.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, 80, would finish a second term at the age of 86. Running against DeSantis, 44, instead of the 76-year-old Trump could draw a different kind of contrast for Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s crazy to me that Biden is polling so low, even with Dems, considering how much has been accomplished in these first two years,\u201d Antelo said.\u00a0\u201cBut, yes, Dems seem worried that \u2018an old white guy\u2019 at the top of the ticket just isn\u2019t going to cut it if the threats to democracy that Trump embodies aren\u2019t on the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Biden\u2019s rise in 2020 had a lot to do with Trump. A big part of his campaign was that he was the Democrat best positioned to end the Trump presidency. Biden himself said he likely would not have run for the White House that year if Trump had not been president.<\/p>\n<p>Polls continue to show Biden with an edge over Trump, but the head-to-head polls matching up Biden and DeSantis give Republicans reason for optimism.<\/p>\n<p>A Marquette Law School poll released on Dec. 1 found Biden and DeSantis tied in a 2024 match-up, with 42 percent of registered voters picking each candidate.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The poll showed Biden 10 points ahead of Trump, suggesting the incumbent president might be a bigger favorite against his old opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Most Democrats, at least on the record, express confidence in Biden regardless of who his opponent is, though some do acknowledge DeSantis could have some advantages compared to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot having Trump\u2019s insurmountable baggage is a huge advantage for DeSantis, but it remains TBD whether he possesses Trump\u2019s talents as a candidate,\u201d said\u00a0Bruce Mehlman, a former assistant secretary at the Commerce Department under former President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Other polls give credence to Democratic fears about Biden\u2019s age.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/12\/27\/presidential-election-2024-suffolk-poll\/10929799002\/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot\">USA Today-Suffolk University\u00a0poll<\/a>\u00a0found that 50 percent of Americans want a president between 51 and 65 years old, while 25 percent want a president 35 to 50 years old. Only 8 percent said they wanted a president who is between the ages of 66 and 80.<\/p>\n<p>Biden will almost certainly be the Democratic nominee in 2024 unless he decides against a run, or if his health does falter.<\/p>\n<p>And a number of Democrats say he\u2019ll be tough to defeat no matter who his GOP opponent is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn essence, it always comes down to can you motivate the base,\u201d said Ivan Zapien, a former Democratic National Committee official.<\/p>\n<p>He said it could be a tougher challenge for Biden against a non-Trump GOP nominee, but added that Biden \u201chas proven that he can motivate the base very effectively and that\u2019s a proof point that I think works to his advantage if he decides to run regardless of who he runs against.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democratic strategist Michael Starr Hopkins said Biden has already proved his detractors wrong once with the coalition he has been able to build.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden has managed to unify the Democratic Party in a way that no Democrat could have predicted four years ago. He\u2019s built a coalition of progressives and moderates that proved during the midterms can be a winning combination,\u201d Hopkins said. \u201cIf I\u2019m Ron DeSantis, I would think twice about running against Biden in this cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marc Lampkin, a Republican lobbyist at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and a former adviser to former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), said the midterm elections were less about personality than they were about issues, like the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. That helped Democrats and could continue to do so in 2024.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIn the midterm election, there were two competing narratives: There was the Republican narrative of inflation and referendum of Joe Biden. Democrats were talking about the Trump overhang, but also were able to talk to some key constituencies after the Dobbs decision,\u201d Lampkin said, referring to the Supreme Court decision toppling Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>Other Democrats say that no matter who Biden faces, he should focus on selling his own achievements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president needs to spend his time selling the accomplishments that he has had and then talking about what he would do if he\u2019s reelected,\u201d said\u00a0Steve Elmendorf,\u00a0a Democratic lobbyist and donor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think for this reelection, or any reelect, you have to worry about things you can control. I don\u2019t know that they can really control what happens on the Republican side,\u201d he added. \u201cAs we\u2019ve seen with Trump from the day he started, people underestimate him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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