Democrats are on a high after President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, signaling a renewed enthusiasm for the president’s expected 2024 presidential reelection campaign.
By all accounts, Democrats and White House staff believe Biden’s primetime speech to more than 24 million Americans put him in a position of strength, particularly after confidently navigating through some tense exchanges with Republicans who booed him throughout.
As Biden and his administration work to promote his accomplishments thus far and his vision for the next two years, they are also hoping to work against recent polling that suggests most Americans — including Democrats themselves — are lukewarm about a Biden presidential run in 2024.
Despite the fact that the president and the White House have repeatedly said he intends to seek reelection, there continues to be a question in political circles about whether Biden will actually do so.
In a recent interview with theGrio, DNC chairman Jaime Harrison reiterated that Biden intends to run, basing his assertion on conversations he has personally had with the president and Biden’s public statements. While it’s not yet clear when Biden will announce his 2024 campaign, he will discover that the Democratic National Committee is “fully equipped” and ready to assist him, Harrison said.
On whether he thinks Democrats have a good chance of retaining the White House in next year’s election, the DNC chair said emphatically, “We’re going to win.”
“We have a plan which we have been executing, in a flawless manner, to continue to deliver for the American people,” said Harrison. By contrast, he described the Republican Party as “a circus.”
He added, “We have a concrete plan on how we will continue to deliver for the American people. So I’m very bullish … but we just got to put in the work. That’s what we’re…
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