Biden’s 2024 Playbook

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Yesterday, we went inside Donald Trump’s campaign for president, to understand how he’s trying to turn a mountain of legal trouble into a political advantage. Today, we turn to the re-election campaign of President Biden. Reid Epstein, who covers politics for The Times, explains why what looks like a record of accomplishment on paper, is turning out to be so difficult to campaign on.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the Daily.
0:07.0	Yesterday on the show we went inside Donald Trump's campaign for president
0:18.0	to understand how he's trying to turn a mountain of legal trouble into a political advantage.
0:25.0	Today, we turn to the re-election campaign of President Biden.
0:30.0	I spoke with my colleague, Reed Epstein, about why what looks like a record of accomplishment
0:35.2	on paper is turning out to be so difficult to campaign on. It's Wednesday, January 3rd.
0:45.0	It's Wednesday, January 3rd. Read hi.
0:57.0	Sabrina hi.
1:00.0	So read yesterday our esteemed colleague Maggie Haberman was on the show and she was talking
1:04.4	about Donald Trump's 2024 campaign strategy and fittingly we come to you to talk
1:10.0	about what Joe Biden's 2024 strategy will be like.
1:13.6	Biden, of course, has presided over a relatively strong economy.
1:17.1	He's passed a bunch of legislation, some of it very sweeping,
1:20.4	some of it even bipartisan, despite historic levels of partisanship and the presumptive
1:25.0	nominee on the other side is facing 91 felony counts.
1:28.9	And yet, and I know it's early, but I have to be honest. So far it's been a little hard to figure out
1:35.1	what Biden's message actually is. So Reed, what is Biden running on?
1:41.0	Well part of Biden's problem is that a lot of these things that you articulated that
1:45.1	should be strengths for him, frankly, are not.
1:48.9	There are political weaknesses.
1:51.0	He's been trying to sell his record and trying to explain to people that their lives are better under him.
1:57.0	But the thing that you're seeing is that a lot of these things that Biden accomplished, he's not able to talk about because
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