The signs are all pointing to Joe Biden running for re-election in 2024.
However, Biden Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh’s departure from the White House may be a signal that Biden’s biggest ally isn’t happy he’s pursuing a second term.
President Joe Biden can’t seem to get anything right.
While tucking his head in the sand about the document scandal looming over his head, the President let a Chinese spy balloon fly across the entire country and hosted perhaps the most chaotic State of the Union address in American history.
And that’s his past couple weeks.
Biden’s record reads like a “worst-of” list: a recession, runaway inflation, record-high gas prices, surging crime rates, a crisis on the southern border, a fentanyl epidemic, indoctrination of children in government-run schools, a disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal – and a host of other Biden embarrassments in just two-years as Commander- in-Chief.
And the polling reflects that the American people are sick of all his failures.
President Biden’s approval numbers are in the tank.
In fact, the current Real Clear Politics average of polling has him sitting 10-points underwater.
And surveys show Americans don’t want Biden to bother with a re-election bid.
A CNBC All-America Economic Survey found 70% of voters hope Biden retires at the end of his current term – while only 19% have their fingers crossed hoping for an additional four-years of the Biden administration.
The fact is, not even Democrats want Biden to run again in 2024.
The same poll found a majority of Democrat voters – 57% – say Biden should settle for a single term in the Oval Office.
In the midst of scandal and tanking approval numbers, Biden has a new problem on his hands.
The Biden administration’s Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh is now leaving the White House.
Walsh is just the latest Biden team member to flee for the door as signs of the White House being in crisis mode continue to accumulate.
Earlier this month, the President’s Chief of Staff Rob Klain resigned from his position.
According to the Brookings institute, Biden has now lost 41% of his “A-Team.”
Vice President Kamala Harris has also had a difficult time keeping team members on her staff the past two years.
However, Walsh is the first of Biden’s senior cabinet secretaries to make a dash for the exits.
Walsh is leaving to become the new Executive Director of the National Hockey League Players Association – so, from Labor Secretary to union boss.
Some may see this as just the latest sign that the once-rugged NHL is about to be the home of even more virtue signaling to the radical Left.
NHL officials still haven’t stopped apologizing for the controversy sports reporters created when some players refused to wear gay pride jerseys for the league’s “pride week.”
They also tried to troll Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently by promoting a job fair that welcomed everyone but straight, white, able-bodied, males – something that’s obviously illegal and wrong.
However, as Joe Biden’s biggest ally during his 2020 presidential campaign, Big Labor is seen as the chief player in protecting Biden from Democrat challengers during a 2024 campaign for the Oval Office.
The fact that Big Labor’s man at the Department of Labor is leaving the Biden administration may be a sign the nation’s union bosses are ready to back another Democrat in 2024.
As for Walsh, the move will come with a big pay raise, going from about $200,000 to reportedly in the neighborhood of $3,000,000.
Politico is reporting contract negotiations between Walsh and NHLPA are in final stages.
His departure from the Biden team will leave Deputy Labor Secretary Julie Su as the agency’s acting head.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
