How President Biden prepares for his battle for re-election, on elections 2024its staff is planning a campaign much like the 2020 campaign. Donald Trump or other Republican nomineewho looks like Trump, the president is planning a campaign that can be summed up in five words: Competence beats madness.

Whether he manages to convince the public of this central idea again is a problem, given that the electorate does not support him, and because of his age there is strong skepticism. When he officially launches his campaign, which is expected to happen this spring, Joe Biden will be 81, the oldest president in US history with one of the lowest approval ratings. The economy is improving but remains shaky while his party supports him publicly but worries privately. And it is possible that he will meet with someone much younger than Donald Trump.

The second fight will be more difficult than the first, as the American president is in his ninth decade of life.

As we have learned from discussions with White House officials, outside advisers, political allies, and Democratic strategists, the main goal of their campaign will be to ensure that the battle of 2024 does not take on the features of a referendum for or against Biden, but develops into a showdown between two personalities. and strategies.

On the one hand, advocates of this approach tell us, we will have a mature, experienced leader with pro-people laws who will help win back working-class Democratic voters. On the other hand, you will find an opposition with ideological obsessions, conspiracy theories, internal contradictions, a captive leader who faces many legal investigations for trying to overturn the results of the democratic electoral contest.

Republican strategists are betting on attrition of the president with a grueling campaign that this time will not have the restrictions imposed on the previous one due to COVID. They plan to portray him as an old, failed leader who spends too much, is responsible for rising inflation, and is a prisoner of the left.

Joe Biden would rather run against Donald Trump, but that doesn’t mean he’ll easily repeat his victory in 2020. His approval rating is hovering around an anemic 43% and two recent polls, one by the Washington Post and the other by Harvard . showed Trump leading by several points. In addition, it is possible that instead of Trump, he will have to fight with 44-year-old Ron de Sandys or 51-year-old Nikki Haley, and the presidential election will acquire the features of a disassembly of generations.