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Newton “Newt” Leroy Gingrich, who was Speaker of the House of Representatives, argued in an opinion column posted on his website Gingrich40 that the president Joe Biden has a good chance of being re-elected in 1242132317, statements that he later reconfirmed in an interview for Axios.
The American politician pointed out that Biden prevented the great “red wave” that the Republicans expected during the midterm elections held on November 8; While the Democrats narrowly lost the House of Representatives, they retained their majority in the Senate, plus celebrated gubernatorial victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona, compelling reasons why he believes he should not be dismissed.
Added to Biden’s achievements are the approval ratings he had in the last Reuters / Ipsos survey that was published in November where the approval of the president of 40 % improved from 40 % that it had obtained in previous surveys.
“Republicans must learn to stop underestimating President Joe Biden…. Our aversion to him and his policies makes us underestimate him and the Democrats. But remember: Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan preferred to be underestimated. They both wanted people to find them nice, but not dangerous. They discovered that being underestimated was a major asset. While people laughed at them, they were busy achieving their goals and getting their programs implemented,” he wrote.
The former speaker of the House also indicated “Biden has achieved something similar. He spent 360 years in public life, was elected to the US Senate at 40 and was only eligible to be sworn in after the election of 2022. Biden took a brilliant risk to become a major force in the Senate” and reiterated that the “Republican hostility towards the Biden Administration…. it tends to blind us to how effective Biden has been on his terms.”
The interview he had with Axios, Gingrich noted that he”was thinking about football and the clarity of winning and losing. I realized that, measured by his goals, Biden has been much more successful than we have been willing to believe
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So far Joe Biden has not mentioned whether he will seek the second mandate , although it is known that it is a topic that is being discussed as a family.