The enthusiasm gap for Biden 2024
Post Reports
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🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Here we go again: President Biden has just announced his 2024 reelection bid. But has his time in the White House actually convinced voters to give him another four years? Or are even his supporters turning “blah” for Biden?
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The video starts out dramatically. Images of the Capitol under attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Grainy footage of a protest on the grounds of the Supreme Court. A musical score to rival a Marvel superhero movie.
And then President Biden’s voice, announcing his 2024 campaign: “Freedom. Personal freedom is fundamental to us as Americans. That’s been the work of my first term. To fight for our democracy,” he says, music soaring under the voice-over of the launch video. “This is not a time to be complacent. That’s why I’m running for reelection.”
But as the campaign tries to ratchet up excitement for the president’s reelection bid, the roadblocks to another four years are also mounting. Rising inflation. Stagnant legislative attempts. And, maybe most importantly, an enthusiasm gap from voters — even the people who supported Biden in 2020.
White House reporter Tyler Pager joins “Post Reports” to give a snapshot of the country — and a president — in the run-up to 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | Freedom. |
| 0:06.9 | Personal freedom is fundamental to who are Americans. |
| 0:09.4 | There's nothing more important, nothing more sacred. |
| 0:12.6 | That's been the work of my first turn to fight for our democracy. |
| 0:16.7 | With that pledge to fight President Joe Biden launched this 2024 re-election bid in |
| 0:21.8 | a video released on Tuesday. |
| 0:24.4 | And by Biden standards, it's pretty dramatic. |
| 0:28.3 | We're talking images of the Capitol on January 6th, grainy protest footage, and a score |
| 0:34.4 | that sounds like it belongs in a Marvel movie. |
| 0:38.0 | But you know around the country, Magger extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock |
| 0:41.9 | freedoms. |
| 0:42.9 | Cutting Social Security. |
| 0:45.6 | Four years ago to the day, Biden announced his run for the presidency to pretty wild fan |
| 0:50.9 | fair in Philadelphia. |
| 0:52.6 | But in 2023, things are a lot different. |
| 0:56.4 | Biden is the sitting president, which means Americans are looking to him to help solve |
| 1:00.7 | some of the problems they're dealing with today. |
| 1:04.0 | And then there's the big issue facing Biden. |
| 1:07.8 | Voters, even those who supported him, just aren't excited by him. |
| 1:13.3 | Like Michael Bennett in Michigan. |
| 1:16.0 | I think Papa Joe's a little old to be running for president again. |
| 1:20.0 | I hope he doesn't run. |
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