“We are Reagan,” a top confidant of President Biden tells Axios. “We had a big plan. We are getting it in place.”

Why it matters: The White House contends Biden isn’t catching lucky breaks, but playing the long game with his “bottom up, middle out” economic approach.

Biden allies point to a Washington Post-ABC News poll from August 1982, with the headline: “Reagan Should Not Seek Second Term, Majority Believes.” Fifty-eight percent of those polled said he shouldn’t run again.

Reagan’s midterm-summer doldrums echo a poll out last Friday from USA Today and Sussex University: Two-thirds of voters said they don’t want either Biden or former President Trump to run again.