The agenda-driven media has the unenviable task of breathing life into President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, and these committed foot soldiers are more than willing to give it the old college try.
But MSNBC anchor Alex Witt may have pushed the envelope a bit when she tries to inject a little energy into Biden-Harris 2024, feigning excitement over the upcoming schedule of fundraising events for the feeble, 80-year-old president’s campaign amid observations that Biden is not doing much campaigning — he attended his first political rally of the 2024 race over the weekend in Philadelphia, coming almost two months since launching his reelection campaign.
NBC reporter Mike Memoli was doing a live hit from the Philadelphia Convention Center where Biden spoke during the AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention, essentially laying the groundwork for what will be Basement Strategy 2.0.
“It’s interesting, the White House has said – the Biden team has said that he’s not necessarily going to be out doing these kinds of rallies regularly this year,” Memoli explained. “It’s very much that Rose Garden strategy, using official events to carry the message while Republicans are sorting themselves out.”
The reporter commented on the number of fundraisers coming up and Witt was quite impressed, never mind that the events apparently involve the whole of Team Biden, not just the president.
“But one other thing we are going to see the president ramp up in the next few weeks: fundraising. The quarterly fundraising deadline is at the end of the month. Remember, the president just announced his campaign two months ago, so it’s really important for him to put up a very big number, to show there is enthusiasm behind his candidacy,” Memoli said. “And Alex, get this number: 20 fundraisers on the books between now and the end of June involving the president, the vice president, and other top cabinet officials involved with this operation as well.”
“Wow! Twenty between now and the end of June,” Witt replied. “That averages to more than one a day. That’s a lot!”
Biden did little campaigning in 2020 while the media largely carried the day for his campaign, but Democrats had the pandemic to hide behind then. It appears that the Biden brain trust — whoever that may be — is planning to fall back on the “Rose Garden strategy” to keep the bumbling, stumbling, gaffe-prone octogenarian off the campaign trail this go-round.
The Rose Garden strategy refers to a president staying close to home at the White House to campaign as opposed to traveling around the country, using the power and prestige of the office to run for re-election.
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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