Washington Update From a DC Insider - 2.24.2023
[Mike McKenna is a long-time analyst/advisor/polling professional in Washington, DC. Also a former Trump staffer, he currently writes op/eds for the Washington Times, The Daily Caller and other publications. He sends out comprehensive state-of-play reports to a select email distribution, and allows me to share them with paid subscribers here. This is his latest report.]
From: Michael McKenna
Date: February 23, 2024
Re: February 2024 monthly note
Since this is late (sorry), we may as well jump right into it.
The Democrats need President Biden to run
There are quite a few theories about how the looming presidential election might unfold.
One of the more pervasive is that President Biden, clearly diminished physically and mentally, will either not be nominated by his fellow Democrats, or, if he has already been nominated, will be exchanged for a different nominee. This theory is a natural offspring of the notion that some shadowy force, rather than Mr. Biden, is actually in charge of the administration.
Both are nonsense.
Mr. Biden is the president of the United States and retains the ability to hire and fire personnel in the Executive Office of the President. He is actually in charge of the administration and has been since January 20, 2021. Are there lots of Obama retreads in this administration? Or course, there are -- if people involved in politics could get real jobs, we would.
But there is a solid core of Biden loyalists running the White House, and to pretend otherwise is to release the president from responsibility for the actions of his regime.