by Frank Holmes, reporter
They’re baaack.
Looking around the Democratic Party’s leadership void and the graveyard of uninspiring candidates who want to run for president in 2028, former President Joe Biden thinks he has just the man to turn the party around: himself.
Joe Biden thinks the silver bullet that will guarantee Democrats retake Congress in the 2026 midterms and the Oval Office two years after that is lot more speeches from “Sleepy Joe.”
“The Bidens want back in,” NBC News just reported… even though almost nobody in the entire Democratic Party is interested in opening that door.
“Biden has told some Democratic leaders he’ll raise funds, campaign and do anything else necessary for Democrats to recover lost ground as the Trump administration rolls back programs the party helped design,” said reporters Peter Nicholas, Carol E. Lee, and Megan Shannon last Friday, citing “people close to him.”
Biden offered his services during an in-person meeting with the new Democratic National Committee chairman, Ken Martin—and he wants to make it a package deal.
The 46th president not only wants to hit the campaign trail for his fellow Democrats, he wants to bring “Doctor Jill” along for the ride. He might even think it’s his idea.
“Former first lady Jill Biden is also prepared to campaign and raise money for fellow Democrats as she and her husband settle into life back home in Delaware,” a “person close to her” told NBC—whose sister network MSNBC, was the Bidens’ and Obamas’ favorite cable channel.
Even offering to charm fundraisers is a major sign of the former president’s desperation, because “Biden was never a very good fundraiser. Never,” a former Democratic bundler told Fox News. “He always had difficulty raising money and really didn’t like doing it.”
Biden always saw talking with the little people who aren’t Senators as beneath him; from the 1970s, he campaigned against “money in politics” and said he was the “poorest member of the Senate,” as he lived in multiple mansions.
But Biden’s real problem isn’t he’s not a good fundraiser. The problem is that he was a lousy president. He allegedly has a 40 percent approval rating, according to Gallup—but Democrats pulled the plug on his re-election campaign when they realized they faced an even bigger landslide loss.
Kamala Harris still lost a blowout election, in part, because she didn’t distance herself enough from his record.
“Who’s going to want Joe Biden back in the game?” asked “a major Biden supporter” (financially, we guess, not politically).
A former official in the Biden-Harris administration could only muster on word in response: “Why?”
A Democratic congressional source put it more bluntly: “Why the f**k would anyone listen to what Joe Biden has to say?”
Another “onetime senior White House adviser” in Biden’s orbit told the New York Post, ““Their irresponsibility, family ego and selfishness put the Democratic Party in this position in the first place…The Biden family — and the disconnected reality that they and their ineffective little circle live in — is responsible for the Trump sequel and the wilderness the Democratic Party finds itself in today.”
“The Bidens are still living in an alternative universe that revolves only around them,” the aide told the Post.
But the hate just kept piling up.
A third Biden administration staffer called the 82-year-old, seven-term senator “delusional and arrogant to think that he can be a value add to the Democratic Party.”
Joe Biden trying to rally the troops for other people when he couldn’t make it through his own campaign?
“This is an ‘SNL’ skit,” said a former Democratic aide.
You can almost imagine Biden giving a speech for young candidates, forgetting basic terms, slurring his syllables, yelling at random people in the crowd, then endorsing the candidate—whom he calls by the wrong name.
Does Biden have a long-term strategy in mind? He only served one term as president, so Biden would be constitutionally eligible to run again in 2028 at the age of 86.
Does he live in the shadow of Donald Trump so much that he wants to become the third president to serve two non-consecutive terms?
Or does he long for opportunities he lost over the last four years? Almost every document produced during the “Biden” administration was signed by autopen, according to an official audit from The Oversight Project.
Republicans including President Donald Trump openly question whether Biden even knew the bills, executive orders, and pardons that bore “his” signature.
Maybe he would like to try his hand at actually being president?
Maybe he wants to sign his family’s pardons publicly, so there’s no question about their legal validity?
Maybe Joe Biden wants to boost Hunter Biden’s sagging art sales and consultancy career?
Whatever it is, Democrats are having none of it.
The Post reported that the individual Biden appointed his senior White House adviser broke out into a full-blown rant at the prospect of Biden 2028.
“These people drank so much of their own Kool-Aid,” the adviser said. “They believed — and still seemingly believe — that an 82-year-old man with a 38% approval rating on a good day, who can’t sit down for a simple traditional 10-minute pre-Super Bowl interview, was the answer for Democrats in 2024.”
“And now this same group thinks the Bidens are the answer for Democrats now?” he asked.
No one’s buying that, not even the people Biden once handpicked to be his closest advisers.