Deja vu, Joe? Biden said Jimmy Carter should NOT run in 1979, inflation high, polls were dire

Deja vu, Joe? Biden said Jimmy Carter should NOT run in 1979, inflation high, polls were dire

Biden is ignoring Democrats saying the same about him

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• President Joe Biden was reluctant to endorse President Jimmy Carter as he geared up to run for a second term in 1979
• Like Biden, Carter faced low poll numbers and high inflation 
• The White House and Biden’s allies have been critical of Democrats expressing concerns about the president’s electability 

President Joe Biden was reluctant to endorse President Jimmy Carter for a second term as the Democrat faced worrying poll numbers and high inflation.

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday on comments Biden made in 1979, as Carter prepared to seek reelection. 

‘That man’s in trouble, politically in trouble,’ Biden said at the time, according to comments found in the Wilmington Evening Journal.

The U.S. senator from Delaware expressed that he was holding off endorsing Carter because he wanted to back a candidate who could retain the White House for the Democrats in 1980.

‘I’m not certain that’s Jimmy Carter right now,’ Biden told his local paper.

President Jimmy Carter (left) appears at a fundraiser in Delaware for then Sen. Joe Biden (right) in 1978. Despite their close bond, Biden held off on endorsing Carter ahead of the 1980 election, fearing the president wouldn’t be able to overcome low poll numbers and inflation.

Now, 44 years later, Biden is also facing discouraging poll numbers, as Americans continue to feel the impacts of inflation.

The Democrats who have publicly spoken out about their Biden reelection fears have faced criticism from the White House and other members of their party.

For instance, longtime Democratic strategist James Carville was told by Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman this week to ‘shut the f*** up,’ after sounding the alarm for months that 2024 is shaping up differently than 2020.

Carville had warned that Biden has to contend with both third-party candidates – including Kennedy scion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and academic Cornel West – and a less enthusiastic Democratic base.

David Axelrod, who helped President Barack Obama win the White House in 2008, was met with similar fury when he voiced doubts about Biden running again, mostly due to the president’s advanced age.

And Rep. Dean Phillips, who like self-help guru Marianne Williamson is mounting a primary challenge against Biden, has been met with disdain ever since he announced his presidential bid in late October.

But in the Carter era, Biden was comfortable playing public critic.

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Then Sen. Joe Biden (left) stands with President Jimmy Carter (center) at the White House in June 1977. Carter assisted Biden with the senator’s 1978 reelection bid, but Biden was slow to endorse Carter when he ran for reelection against Ronald Reagan in 1980.

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