Clyburn is worried - so is Obama

Rep. James Clyburn said on Sunday that he was “very concerned” about President Joe Biden’s standing with Black voters as the general election nears.

The South Carolina Democrat, making an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” said he had spoken to the president about his fears, which were based around the failure of the White House to translate its legislative accomplishments into positive voter sentiment.

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“This president is keeping his promises,” he added, but “people keep focusing on the one or two things he did not get accomplished.”

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The timing of his comments are notable too, as Biden is set to head to Clyburn’s home state on Monday for a speech at the Mother Emanuel AME Church.

  Politico

Gee, James, if it hadn't been for your pushing Biden on black voters in 2020, we may have had a younger, more progressive president to be looking for a second term in 2024, and one who had black support.

President Biden's principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks said Sunday that Biden and former President Obama are "aligned" in their thinking about Biden's re-election campaign.

Fulks' remarks come in response to many high-level Democrats, including Obama, expressing concerns that Biden and his re-election team are too complacent about the threat of losing to former President Trump.

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The latest alarm was sounded Saturday in a leak to The Washington Post about a private meeting in which Obama pointed Biden to a different way to approach his re-election campaign.

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Obama had also pushed Biden to consider moving his political operation outside of — and beyond — his White House advisers.

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Trump continues to dominate polls, both in and out of his party.

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Biden has recently seen some of his lowest approval ratings yet as he bids for another four years in the White House.

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Asked whether the campaign would see Obama's warning as a wake-up call, Fulks said they have "been awake" since Biden announced his re-election campaign and have "put innovative organizing programs in place to begin to communicate with voters on the ground."

  MSN

They should have been communicating with voters on the ground for the past three years.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.