White House chief of staff Jeff Zients on Wednesday invited hundreds of executive office staffers to a party aimed at lifting spirits as President Biden’s approval ratings have plummeted ahead of his 2024 re-election bid.
The off-campus shindig will be held at a private venue in Northern Virginia later this month and is described as a “spirit booster,” according to Axios.
Zients, believed to be the president’s richest aide, used his own money to throw the bash, according to the outlet. Disclosure forms show Zients’ net worth is between $89.3 million and $442.8 million.
“To ensure we can include as many staff as possible, this invitation is non-transferable and does not include guests,” Zients wrote in his invitation to White House staff.
Zients organized the party and spent his own money to put it on, according to reports. AP The invitation was sent Wednesday to hundreds of White House staffers. AP
The party comes as Biden, 81, enters the new year with lower approval ratings than any of his seven predecessors at the same point in their first terms, according to a Gallup poll.
Only 39% of Americans approve of the president’s job performance in the Oval Office, the poll found.
Biden’s support among black voters – one of the Democratic Party’s most loyal voting blocs – has also plunged to 63%, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Monday.
Black voters overwhelmingly support Biden over Donald Trump in 2020, by a 92%-8% margin, according to the Pew Research Center.
A USA Today/Suffolk University poll has Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, beating Biden in the 2024 general election, 39%-37%, with an unnamed third-party candidate receiving 17% support.
Trump’s lead increased by percentage points when respondents were given the choice to support the seven named third-party candidates.
Polls suggest that 2024 could be Biden’s last year in office. ZUMAPRESS.com
Biden, already the oldest president in US history, will be 86 at the end of his second term, and his advanced age worries voters, many polls show.
A New York Times poll released in November found that 71% of swing state voters said Biden was “too old to be an effective president,” compared to 39% who said the same about the 77-year-old Trump.
A Wall Street Journal poll released in September found that 73% of registered voters believed Biden was too old, compared to 47% who said the same about Trump.
Biden has been warned by top aides and his wife Jill to get more rest and pay more attention to his health in the run-up to 2024, Axios reported last month.
“He’s his own worst enemy when it comes to his schedule,” a former Biden adviser told the outlet, which reported in April that aides were having trouble booking presidential events at certain times of the day because of the president’s habitual 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. schedule.
“His age is clearly something voters worry about, fairly or not,” said another former White House official, “and yelling, ‘Nuh-uh’ doesn’t cut it.”
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