President Biden Is Running Out Of Justification, Press Leaks, & Time

Isaac Newton Farris Jr
8 min readFeb 29, 2024

Age and an unpopular Vice President were thought to be President Biden’s greatest obstacles to a 2024 reelection, both those obstacles are now being replaced by a greater obstacle, an obstacle that President Biden is running out of excuses to justify his actions, running out of press leaks to spin his actions, and running out of time to change his actions.

Since Joe Biden was the oldest person in American history to be elected President his age will be a consistent negative or positive reelection issue, and since Vice President Kamala Harris’s favorability numbers have improved she is no longer a threatening reelection issue, but now something more lethal to President Biden’s reelection chances has emerged, because unlike Biden’s age or Harris’s popularity, this issue is one that makes a strong difference among President Biden’s election base voters, a strong difference that President Biden appears to be on the wrong side of.

Thousands of Biden’s base voters gather outside the White House during the National March on Washington for Palestine while calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on November 4, 2023 in Washington, DC.

Unfortunately for President Biden just as he is entering his reelection cycle Hamas brutally attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing, mutilating, or raping over 1,000 people in Israel, some of whom were…

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Isaac Newton Farris Jr

Isaac Newton Farris Jr. is the nephew of Martin Luther King, Jr. and serves as Senior Fellow at the King Center.