Obama faces reality about Biden's re-election chances as Biden becomes increasingly 'upset' about the polls: Reports

Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, are becoming increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden's re-election chances.

Obama, according to a source close to the former president, understands the 2024 presidential election "is going to be a close race," and he "feels that Democrats very well could lose," the Wall Street Journal reported.

That sobering assessment summarizes Biden's struggles.

Nearly every major poll shows the same picture less than a year from Election Day: Biden is an unpopular president. Americans do not trust him to handle the issues they consider most important — the economy, crime, foreign policy, immigration, the border crisis — and he would probably lose to Donald Trump if the election were held today, especially as Biden loses ground in critical swing states. They also believe he is too old for a second term.

Biden, meanwhile, is growing increasingly "upset" over those polls, according to the Washington Post.

Last month, Biden gathered his top aides and "delivered some stern words," complaining that "his poll numbers were unacceptably low and he wanted to know what his team and his campaign were doing about it," the Post reported.

In fact, the president and first lady Jill Biden have expressed their frustrations for months about Biden's "low approval rating and the polls that show him trailing" Trump, the newspaper reported.

Democratic strategists, like David Axelrod, are sounding the alarms, warning Biden's campaign to take the polls seriously. But the Biden campaign is reportedly not listening.

Not only are members of Biden's campaign outright dismissing the polls, but they are reportedly projecting a confidence that Democratic strategists find alarming.

Last month, staffers who worked Barack Obama's successful 2008 campaign gathered in Chicago for the 15-year anniversary of that victory. After their party, many of those staffers, who also worked on Obama's 2012 campaign, met with Biden campaign aides to hear about the campaign's plan to ensure Trump doesn't win the election.

According to New York magazine, many of the Obama alums were left alarmed over the Biden campaign's glaring lack of an actionable plan. Biden staffers, according to one Democratic strategist present at the meeting, are "absurdly defensive" over a plan that assumes voters will side with Biden in a Biden-Trump rematch.

"My most negative perception is they suspect, at the end, that 'these people are going to be with us. These people are going to get onboard. We just have to get to that point, and part of it is Trump emerging,'" a senior Obama campaign official told the magazine.

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