{"id":2194619,"date":"2024-03-07T06:33:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T11:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-problems-biden-faces-as-he-barrels-toward-rematch-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T06:33:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T11:33:17","slug":"the-problems-biden-faces-as-he-barrels-toward-rematch-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-problems-biden-faces-as-he-barrels-toward-rematch-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The problems Biden faces as he barrels toward rematch with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-problems-biden-faces-as-he-barrels-toward-rematch-with-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2194619&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden is one step closer to a rematch with former President Donald Trump in the 2024 general election in the aftermath of Super Tuesday, but the night more importantly outlined several narratives that could pose problems for Biden come November.<\/p>\n<p> While the biggest primary night of 2024 provided at least one surprise, in the form of American Samoa primary winner Jason Palmer, Biden\u2019s struggles to overcome voters\u2019 concerns about the Israel-Hamas war, lower independent support, and a rematch with Trump, which is likely going to come down to a messaging battle as both candidates try to paint their opponents as the worse option, all present possible headaches for his reelection bid.<\/p>\n<p> Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n<p> The Gaza Problem Is Real Biden took home victory in all but one of 16 states and territories holding primaries Tuesday night but faced significant opposition in seven of those contests, pegged to his handling of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p> Voters in Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Tennessee were all offered the opportunity to vote for some form of \u201cuncommitted\u201d candidate beyond Biden, author Marianne Williamson, and Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN).<\/p>\n<p> And voters in all those states opted to vote for \u201cuncommitted\u201d at much higher rates than they did in 2020. Minnesota and North Carolina presented the largest warning signs for Biden, with the former, another relatively high Arab and Muslim population state, seeing more than 20% of voters backing \u201cuncommitted,\u201d and the former,\u00a0a critical swing state,\u00a0clocking in above 12%. <\/p>\n<p> Biden will likely encounter similar opposition in Democrats\u2019 next two primaries, Georgia and Washington, on March 12, though there is a glimmer of hope for the president.<\/p>\n<p> There is a strong likelihood Biden could welcome this disaffected section of his base back into a 2024 coalition should he make good on his efforts to broker another protracted, if not permanent, ceasefire, a point the president will likely stress in his State of the Union address on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> Missin\u2019 Independents Independent voters have more than a puncher\u2019s chance of determining the outcome of any election, let alone one where the top two candidates have glaring deficiencies.<\/p>\n<p> Biden\u2019s campaign published a memo Wednesday morning explaining how they plan to spend the remainder of the year blanketing independent voters with targeted advertising on television, radio, and digital platforms in addition to hosting in-person events in key states and districts.<\/p>\n<p> Biden would appear to have the funds to see that plan through to fruition. Biden\u2019s campaign and consolidated super PACs ended February with a nearly $50 million cash advantage on Team Trump, and outside Democratic groups plan to pitch in another $700 million in advertising aimed at attacking Trump and lifting up Biden, according to the campaign.<\/p>\n<p> Still, exit polls showed major areas of concern for the president. In California, independent voters in the state Senate jungle primary voiced greater approval for Trump\u2019s performance as president (43%) compared to Biden\u2019s (35%). In North Carolina, the Republican Party opted to allow independent voters to take part in the GOP primary, and Trump outperformed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley among the swing demographic.<\/p>\n<p> Furthermore, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who dropped his primary challenge to Biden last year, announced that he had qualified to appear as an Independent on the November ballot in Nevada. Now Kennedy could pull votes from both Biden and Trump, but Biden\u2019s electoral map all but relies on a win in Nevada to secure a second term in office. Kennedy supporters are also seeking to gather signatures to qualify him in other swing states, including Arizona and Georgia. <\/p>\n<p> Independent candidate Cornel West and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, both progressives, could additionally eat into Biden\u2019s coalition come November, though neither has a realistic chance of a winning White House bid of their own. <\/p>\n<p> He said, he said Tuesday\u2019s fallout, especially Haley\u2019s decision to finally suspend her campaign, all but solidifies the Biden-Trump rematch. <\/p>\n<p> Though polls dating back to 2022 routinely show most voters wishing neither Biden nor Trump would run again in 2024, both men have been ostensibly treating this as a two-horse race since announcing their candidacies.<\/p>\n<p>Both Biden and Trump have sought to paint each other as threats to democracy, a line of attack that both candidates are using to sway voters to their sides before the general election. In November 2022, Trump announced his campaign by attacking Biden and Democrats for the \u201cdecline of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cUnder Biden and the radical Democrats, America has been mocked, derided, and brought to its knees perhaps like never before. But we are here tonight to declare that it does not have to be this way. It does not have to be this way,\u201d he stated. \u201cThe decline of America is being forced upon us by Biden and the radical left lunatics running our government right into the ground. This decline is not a fate we must accept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWhen I ran for president four years ago, I said, \u2018We\u2019re in a battle for the soul of America,\u2019 and we still are,\u201d Biden himself said in his April 2023 announcement video. \u201cEvery generation of Americans will face the moment when they have to defend democracy. Stand up for our personal freedom. Stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights, and this is our moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Fast forward to the present, and both Biden and Trump reacted to Super Tuesday with eerily similar language.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAre we going to keep moving forward, or will we allow Donald Trump to drag us backwards into the chaos, division, and darkness that defined his term in office?\u201d the president posed to voters in his post-Tuesday statement.<\/p>\n<p> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe\u2019ve watched our country take a great beating over the last three years,\u201d Trump said at his victory party in Florida.<\/p>\n<p> Neither candidate is likely to move too far off that script between now and Nov. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is one step closer to a rematch with former President Donald Trump in the 2024 general election in the aftermath of Super Tuesday, but the night more importantly outlined several narratives that could pose problems for Biden come November. 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