President Biden’s early ’23 moves as he quietly pivoted to the center as he prepared for a re-run this 2024 campaign.
President Biden’s Pivot To The Middle As He Prepares To Run This 2024 (PHOTO: The Hill)
Progressives Biden’s Pivot To Center In Run-Up To 2024 Campaign
President Biden promised when he was running for president in 2020 to “no more drilling on federal lands, period” and this month, he authorized an $8bn oil project in Alaska, violating that campaign pledge. Moreover, Biden had said he is eager to back granting statehood to the District of Columbia. Last week, he signed a Republican bill overturning modifications to the DC criminal code, which critics attacked as violating home rule. Biden previously accused former president Donald Trump of waging “an unrelenting assault on the values and history as a nation of immigrants” because he took the US-Mexican border.
The Biden administration reportedly thought about reintroducing the practice of holding migrant families who cross the border illegally, according to stories that surfaced this month. Supporters of immigrant rights have denounced the proposal as well as one that would further limit who can seek refuge in the US.
President Biden Went To El PasoTexas
President Biden Sunday’s trip to El Paso, Texas, the first time Biden has visited the U.S.-Mexico border as president, will showcase law enforcement taking a possible Democratic vulnerability head-on. Even as Biden shores up his middle flank, he’ll still need to balance the priorities between the party’s ascendant developed wing and majority-making moderates.
On immigration, party activists are already crying foul in anticipation of tougher enforcement measures at the border even as such moves are a political necessity not just for Biden but the several red-state Senate Democrats up for re-election in 2024.
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