Hello there I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast so President Joe Biden announced Tuesday

he was running and he is running for re-election in 2024 but while he focused on the quote

battle for the soul of America in his video that's not the only war his national

security team is worried about but the next two years ahead of Biden is

shaping up to be no picnic. Putting aside that 70% of American

voters do not want him to run according to our polling, he does seemingly still

got an endless war in Ukraine to deal with on his hands, a tussle with China on the horizon, and a possible

recession. And in some ways, this battle with Trump is almost like a wartime atmosphere, if you will,

which sort of probably motivated Biden to seek a second term.

So is it a good way to compare Biden's re-elect

to previous presidents who had to run during a sort of wartime atmosphere?

So today I'm joined by a presidential historian Doug Brinkley, who has looked at this and then some over the years.

Doug, welcome to the Toddcast, good to hear you.

Thank you Chuck, glad to be here.

So that's what I wanted to look at here. This is a Biden Trump rematch, even Biden's reelect on his own.

There's not a lot of precedent, but the best I could come up with was 1940 but I'm just curious what when you look at at

this and try to find an historical analogy where do you look well the advantage

FDR had is on international affairs the Republicans

were pretty close to the Democrats during World War II. I see more of a Korean War lens the fact that Harry Truman decided not to run in

1952 that's unusual for a sitting president but he had at times something like a 27% approval rate and so he just couldn't run in 52.

It'd be like a Biden's 40% drifted downwards to 35 or 33.

And of course in 52 the Democrats picked Adle

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