{"id":540709,"date":"2023-01-19T02:54:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T23:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/biden-reelection-plans-on-track-despite-documents-controversy\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T02:54:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T23:54:43","slug":"biden-reelection-plans-on-track-despite-documents-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/biden-reelection-plans-on-track-despite-documents-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden reelection plans on track despite documents controversy\u00a0"},"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-6a29f789b68ed\" 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-6a29f789b68ed\" 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-reelection-plans-on-track-despite-documents-controversy\/#Biden_reelection_plans_on_track_despite_documents_controversy\" >Biden reelection plans on track despite documents controversy\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Biden_reelection_plans_on_track_despite_documents_controversy\"><\/span>Biden reelection plans on track despite documents controversy\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bidenjoe_011723ap-carolyn-kaster_biden.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Biden is on track to signal his reelection plans in the next few weeks, despite a self-inflicted classified documents controversy that has energized the GOP and put his political team on its heels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still very much in the works and nothing has changed,\u201d said one source familiar with the planning around the president\u2019s forthcoming 2024 campaign bid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Multiple sources with knowledge of the campaign groundwork say Biden intends to signal his intention to seek a second term after the State of the Union address on Feb. 7. A more formal declaration would come closer to the spring.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The classified documents\u00a0discovery, which triggered the <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>ointment of a special counsel last week by Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Merrick Garland, has done nothing to change those plans, these sources said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>White House allies say Americans will prioritize issues like the economy over the technicalities surrounding the documents. In the coming months, they expect Biden to talk about the victories under his watch, including jobs numbers and a slowdown of skyrocketing inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have expressed concerns\u00a0behind the scenes\u00a0that the classified\u00a0materials\u00a0story could be damaging to Biden.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the kind of thing that can consume a lot of oxygen,\u201d said one Democratic strategist, who asked that their name be withheld to speak candidly. \u201cYou think it doesn\u2019t seem like that big of a deal, and maybe it isn\u2019t, but it ends up overtaking much of the campaign.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>White House press briefings have been dominated by questions about the classified\u00a0papers,\u00a0including why the White House didn\u2019t tell the public of the discovery until months after documents were initially found at Biden\u2019s private office in Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The White House sought to go on offense on Tuesday, conducting a 45-minute call with reporters, but it also led to more questions.<\/p>\n<p>At the briefing on Wednesday, the White House continued to field questions on the matter, with reporters growing frustrated with the lack of details.<\/p>\n<p>During one exchange, Peter Alexander of NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to invite Justice Department officials to the podium to answer questions.\u00a0The White House has consistently referred questions to the Department of Justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThis is a legal matter that is currently happening at the Department of Justice and the president has been very, very clear when it comes to these types of legal matters when it comes to investigations,\u201d Jean-Pierre said. \u201cHe\u2019s not going to interfere but he wants to make sure that we give back the independence that the Department of Justice should have when it comes to these types of investigations. I certainly would not be bringing them here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The documents came from Biden\u2019s time as vice president in the Obama administration. The White House Office of Counsel told the National Archives of the discovery of the documents on Nov. 2. The first\u00a0news coverage came in\u00a0the second week of January.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Republicans newly in charge of the House have dug into the story.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In a Jan. 18 letter to University of Pennsylvania President Mary Elizabeth Magill, House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair\u00a0James Comer\u00a0(R-Ky.) asked for information on who had access to the Penn Biden Center \u2014 where\u00a0Biden\u2019s office <strong>was<\/strong>\u200b\u00a0located in the years following his vice presidency. He also asked for information by Feb. 1 on a visitor log of those who met with Biden at the think tank, security at the facility and any donations to the center that may link back to China.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The documents story shifted the political narrative from the messy House Speaker\u2019s fight from the first week of January that had\u00a0shown\u00a0off the divide in the House GOP. It also complicated Democratic attacks on former President Trump, who has his own classified documents\u00a0scandal\u00a0to deal with.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House\u00a0and Biden allies have\u00a0fought back hard at the idea that the Biden and Trump controversies are the same, saying Biden and his team im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely notified the National Archives of the\u00a0revelation\u00a0while Trump resisted doing so.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThis is a false equivalency by House Republicans to try and paint them in a similar shade of corruption despite Biden\u2019s lifetime of service to the country,\u201d said Cooper Teboe, a Democratic strategist who works with a pro-Biden political action committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one should defend taking classified documents home,\u201d Teboe said. \u201cBut the situations surrounding the Trump documents versus the Biden documents are worlds apart. President Biden immediately followed procedure upon his team\u2019s discovery of the documents versus President Trump who personally took the documents home with him and tried to hide them for a year \u2014 right after his failed coup attempt.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the story broke last week, the White House has tried to relay to the public that they handled the matter in the appropriate way, working to send the papers back to the National Archives. They say it\u2019s a far cry from Trump\u2019s handling of classified papers, prompting an FBI raid on Trump\u2019s home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Republican strategist Doug Heye said it\u2019s too early to say if the\u00a0storyline\u00a0will hurt Biden\u2019s reelection prospects, but he said it chips away at one of the president\u2019s core promises: competency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt certainly gets in his way,\u201d Heye said. \u201cPart of it is, \u2018Will there be more?\u2019 That\u2019s a very real feeling Democrats have.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another GOP operative put it differently.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe documents issue won\u2019t keep him from running, but it does complicate efforts to take a clean shot at Trump on his classified documents issue and gain a clear advantage on that front,\u201d said Kevin Madden, a former adviser to Mitt Romney. \u201cYes, the actions in question are very different in severity, but they are both degrees of bad.\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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