Democrats, If They Move Fast, Could Change Candidates in Time for an Electoral Indian Summer in the Fall

The economy may be improving, but not fast enough for the question of whether Americans are in better financial condition than four years ago.

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President Biden speaks at Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, January 5, 2024. AP/Matt Rourke

Even at this late date, with just nine months before the next presidential election, the Democrats, who apart from Jimmy Carter, have not lost the reelection of one of their incumbent presidents since Grover Cleveland in 1888 (who went on to get reelected in 1892), are not doing anything right to win reelection for President Biden.

The economy does appear to be improving but not sufficiently quickly for the administration to be able to pose on election day the question of whether Americans are in a better financial condition than they were four years before, and get a positive answer.

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