- President Biden's pollster said Biden is the best Democrat to challenge Trump in 2024.
- "You go head-to-head and Joe Biden's always ahead of him," John Anzalone said.
- Biden himself has suggested he would be "very fortunate" if Trump ran again.
President Joe Biden's pollster says there's 'no indication' the president won't seek reelection in 2024, arguing that Democrats don't have an alternative who could beat former President Donald Trump.
"I think that … a lot of us feel that if Trump runs, there's no one else that could beat Trump [other] than Joe Biden," John Anzalone told Politico's Ryan Lizza in an interview published on Friday.
As for whether or not Biden will actually run, Anzalone said there's "no indication that he won't run." Biden, who is already the oldest president in American history, has also refused to rule out a second term.
"I'd be very fortunate if I had that same man running against me," Biden recently told reporters.
Anzalone said the 2022 midterms are shaping up to be the "worst political environment" for Democrats of his lifetime. But the good news, Anzalone says, is that even with anemic approval ratings Biden is still leading Trump in a hypothetical 2024 rematch.
"You go head-to-head and Joe Biden's always ahead of him," Anzalone said. "Not by a lot — one or two points. … Even at his lowest approval rating, he still beats Donald Trump."
Trump is very publicly flirting with a 2024 run, even referring to himself as the 47th president. Some of his potential challengers for the GOP presidential nomination have pledged to not run if Trump decides to try to become the first president since Grover Cleveland to try to successfully reclaim the White House.
Biden's current numbers have sparked massive concerns among Democrats. According to the FiveThirtyEight's weighted average, the president has a 41.6% approval rating.