Biden's re-election bid is slow out of the gate

President Biden’s re-election campaign is off to a slow start — months behind the 2012 pace of Barack Obama, the last president to win re-election.

Why it matters: Biden announced his re-election bid before his campaign team was ready to go, and now is hustling to build an organization that could take on GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who announced his campaign nearly six months ago. …

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Biden and fellow Democrats are betting that opposition to Trump and issues such as abortion rights will rally the Democratic base — despite polls showing a lack of enthusiasm for another Biden term and his approval ratings in the low 40s.

[How fast does Biden need to be? Thus far he’s not facing a primary challenge, and that means he won’t have to actively campaign until perhaps early next year. Yes, Obama got off to a faster start, but Obama’s campaign strategy was completely different than Biden’s — much more granular, much more attuned to a personality-cult approach. Biden’s 2020 campaign was barely more than a 19th-century front porch campaign, and it’s not likely to be much more robust for 2024. He’s banking on a rematch against Trump. If the GOP nominates someone else, Biden will be totally unprepared for it. — Ed]

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