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The Obama-Biden Thing & Jeff Roe Déjà Vu

As the White House confronts a Gen Z backlash, calls for an Obama intervention have been tempered by fresh anxiety over the party’s generational deficit and the president’s messaging strategy.

President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama greet Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro at the Liacouras Center on November 5, 2022 in Philadelphia.
Joe Biden will have plenty of surrogate support going into 2024. But the most important surrogate may be his old boss, Barack Obama. Photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
December 1, 2023

As an incumbent president running for re-election against a twice-impeached, multi-indicted Florida Man, Joe Biden will have plenty of surrogate support. Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, Wes Moore, Raphael Warnock, Maxwell Frost, Victor Shi, and other young voter advocates will be actively stumping on the ground and airwaves. The campaign will also enlist celebrities like LeBron James and Taylor Swift. But the most important surrogate may be his old boss, Barack Obama.