The White House scheduled for this Monday that President Joe Biden visit the galaxies.
You have to understand that it was a figurative trip from the act in which the first images of the James Webb Space Telescope were unveiled. These snapshots, a preview of those that NASA will release this Tuesday, offer a never-before-seen view of the universe by penetrating the cosmos where stars are born, turned into bubbles, according to scientists.
Faced with this unprecedented landscape, not only the staunch Republican enemies, but also many Democrats, those who with their votes made Biden the oldest president of the United States, consider that the current president should exhaust his term and then dedicate himself to looking at the stars, idle in retirement, instead of running for a second term.
This is the opinion, looking through the telescope of the polls towards the presidential elections of November 2024, expressed by 64% of the Democrats.
This is reflected in a poll by The New York Times/Siena College, which indicates that this percentage of more than 60% of Biden voters would prefer another candidate in the next government contest.
Discouragement is spreading in the country, amid concerns about the economy, inflation and the interference of the pandemic in daily life. The president has an approval rating that remains at 33%, similar to the worst records of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
It is clear that the conservative opposition is overwhelming, but there are also two-thirds of independents who disagree with his management. And the restlessness emerges among his co-religionists. His approval remains at 70%, a low digit in the group of his voters, especially in the face of the mid-term elections, in which control of Congress, both the Lower House and the Senate, are at stake.
Liberals also lament a context in which the administration is losing the story on key issues for them such as abortion, gun control or the fight against climate change.
The euphoria that was unleashed after the inauguration, which allowed to end the exacerbated daily tension that Trump printed during his four-year term, has faded. Biden insists on running for a second term. However, his advanced age is another factor that provokes doubts in his own voters.
The president begins his first visit to the Middle East on Wednesday, a four-day route that will take him to Israel, Palestine and Saudi Arabia.
The same Times assured last Sunday that this trip was initially scheduled as a continuation of the recent European tour. This would have meant an arduous effort of ten days, excessive at 79 years old, said one of the sources cited in that information.
After 18 months in the White House, Biden is older than Ronald Reagan at the end of his two terms. In case of continuing and winning in the 2024 elections, he would reach 86 at the head of the US.
This circumstance worries within the West Wing, the party and is a matter of debate among the strategists. The internal current against Biden’s aspiration to seek a second term is led by the group of the youngest. 94% of Democratic voters under the age of thirty bet on a different presidential nominee.
Although they don’t like the comparison, many progressives see Biden as a shooting star: a one-term president like Jimmy Carter.
