President Biden has publicly touted California’s Gavin Newsom as a hot contender for the White House — telling the younger world leader the man “can get the job I’m looking for,” referring to his 2024 re-election bid.
“I want to thank him. He’s a great governor, man,” Biden, who turns 81 next week, said of the 56-year-old fellow Democrat after he warmed to the crowd for him at a reception for leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference.
“The truth is, he can be anything he wants to be — he can get the job that I’m looking for,” said Biden, who is the Democratic Party’s front-runner for 2024.
Newsom had previously been mentioned as a potential primary challenger to Biden as he boosted his national image.
He made headlines last month when he traveled to China for a week to speak with President Xi Jinping ahead of the APEC conference.
President Biden touted California’s Gavin Newsom as a potential presidential candidate in a speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference on Wednesday. AFP via Getty Images
The governor told reporters the purpose of the visit was to “turn the page, renew our friendship and re-engage (on) fundamental and fundamental issues that will define our collective faith in the future.”
At a news conference after the meeting, Newsom also said he and Xi discussed ways to “accelerate our progress on climate in a meaningful and substantive way,” according to a report from CBS News.
Newsom has also positioned himself as a leading Democrat – announcing that he will debate his Florida counterpart, Ron DeSantis, later this month.
The two have verbally attacked each other for months, with Newsom targeting DeSantis over a ban on critical race theory in the classroom, a ban on instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity for children in kindergarten through fourth grade and restrictions on abortion.
Back in April, Newsom even went down to DeSantis’ front yard to condemn the changes enacted at the New College of Florida in Sarasota.
The Biden campaign is said to see Newsom as key to getting the Democratic message out, and on Tuesday, the California governor raised an estimated $3 million for the president’s campaign at a San Francisco fundraiser, according to Politico.
But the president still trails former President Donald Trump in national polls, which reveal growing concerns among voters about Biden’s competence.
Newsom has previously been mentioned as a potential primary challenger to Biden as he boosts his national image. Justin Tafoya/US State Department/UPI/Shutterstock
Trump, 77, leads Biden, 80, 44% to 42% in the head-to-head election matchup, a Yahoo News/YouGov poll released Wednesday showed.
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The poll also found that 54% said Biden, who turns 81 next week, is no longer “competent to carry out the duties of president,” up from 49% in February.
Just under a third of respondents, 31%, believe the president is still competent, the poll showed, a drop of four percentage points from February.
Concerns about Biden’s “mental health and acuity” also rose, with 64% saying they were somewhat or very concerned about the matter.
In June 2020, before Biden took office, less than half of Americans (48%) said they had the same level of concern about the candidate’s health and mental state.
But since then, Americans have become more aware of the president’s verbal and physical indiscretions.
More voters have heard “a lot” about Biden “physically stumbling at public events” (47%), making “verbal mistakes” (41%) and “falling asleep at public events” (33%) than they have about Congress approving The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (20%) or Medicare allowed to negotiate lower prescription drug prices under the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (23%).
The Biden campaign is said to see Newsom as key to getting the Democratic message out.REUTERS
The poll came the same week David Axelrod, one of former President Barack Obama’s top advisers, warned that Biden’s “age issue” was consistent in the polls and the “one thing” his campaign would not be able to reverse.
“One number in the polls that is troubling, and in the CNN poll that followed after the New York Times poll, has to do with age, and that’s one thing you can’t reverse no matter how effective Joe Biden is behind the scenes. In front of the camera, what he’s portraying is causing people to worry, and that’s troubling,” Axelrod said during an appearance on CNN Sunday.
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