“Could Bobby Kennedy catch a spark? Maybe,” said a Democratic donor. “He’s alienated himself because of some of the anti-vax positions, but he is a bright man, articulate, eloquent...has the Kennedy name and would pull a lot of the Trump voters.”
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“It’s clear there is a softness that perhaps is born out of a worry about electability in 2024,” said Julián Castro, the former housing secretary who ran for president against Biden in 2020. “While he’s accomplished a lot, there have been areas where I think people feel like he hasn’t quite delivered what was promised on voting rights, immigration reform, police reform and some aspect of climate.
This month, Mayor Paige Cognetti of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and three other Pennsylvania mayors hopped in a rented van for a road trip across the state to promote projects funded by the Biden administration because they were concerned voters didn’t know about them. Surveys have suggested that large numbers of Democratic voters are willing to tell pollsters they would take anyone over Biden. A poll from a Baltimore TV station last week found that 41% of Maryland Democrats preferred their governor, Wes Moore, over Biden, even though Moore is backing the president’s reelection.
“If people feel hurt or slighted, that goes a long way with people in New Hampshire,” said Lou D’Allesandro, a Democratic state senator and longtime Biden ally who warned that the president’s spurning of his state could lead to a Kennedy victory there. The Kennedy campaign is being led by Dennis Kucinich, the former left-wing congressman and Cleveland mayor, who cast Kennedy’s cornucopia of right-wing views as evidence that he is better positioned to win a general election than Biden — who won in 2020 with significant support from Trump-skeptical moderate Republicans.
They believe those trips will generate positive local news coverage that will be the first step — certain to be followed by hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising from the Biden campaign and its allies — toward educating Biden-skeptical Democrats and wayward independent voters that Biden deserves a second term.
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