President Joe Biden’s reelection team is looking to his State of the Union speech to help reset his 2024 presidential bid as polls show him trailing former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical one-on-one matchup.
According to Axios, Biden officials see the State of the Union address March 7 as an inflection point that could help quell the clamor over the 81-year-old Democrat incumbent’s mental fitness.
“Everyone around him is well aware of the need to jack this campaign up,” a source close to Biden told Axios. “The only way to deal with the negative aftershocks of the special counsel’s report [criticizing Biden’s age] is for the president to be out there, to be visible — to be strong of presence and strong of voice.”
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