Many top Democrats are convinced that if the election were today, Biden would lose a rematch with former President Trump. Biden’s address on March 7 is his biggest chance to shift public perceptions.
“Everyone around him is well aware — well aware — of the need to jack this campaign up,” a source close to Biden said. “The only way to deal with the negative aftershocks of the special counsel’s report [slamming Biden’s age] is for the president to be out there, to be visible — to be strong of presence and strong of voice.”
One bold move that Biden has considered, we’re told, is an executive order that would dramatically stanch the record flow of migrants into the Southwest. This could even happen in the two weeks before the address, allowing Biden to say he took action while Republicans just talk.
Clearly the way to quiet concerns that he’s old and out of touch is to become more conservative. Republicans being hypocrites doesn’t make him younger, nor is it going to improve his numbers with the groups he’s been losing who all have issues other than border crossings that motivate them. “People don’t like me, what if I did something completely irrelevant to their concerns? That’d solve it right?”