A former adviser to President Bill Clinton warned of several risks that could come with the reelection of President Joe Biden in November.
Democratic political consultant Douglas Schoen explored the “very real risks” of Biden’s reelection in an op-ed for the Orange County Register over the weekend, listing what he views as multiple points of concern for the president and Democratic Party.
Schoen is one of the best-known Democratic political consultants in the United States, with a history of advising Clinton, working on his 1996 reelection bid, and consulting for former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Schoen said the foreign policy problems that continue to plague Biden’s first term are likely to follow him into a second. “Biden is often perceived as a leader who ‘talks loudly but carries a weak stick’ as he has often done with Russia, China, and Iran,” he wrote.
But Schoen also believes there are perils for Biden domestically. The president’s fiscal policies could “fuel a surge of government spending,” the consultant predicted, adding that it could cause inflation to ramp back up. And despite the positive economic indicators under the Biden administration and improving economic sentiment, he noted that Biden’s historically low approval rating has yet to tick back up.
Further, the “utter chaos” at the southern border poses a risk. “It remains to be seen whether or not Biden would be willing — or able — to take the much needed steps to securing the Southern Border,” he wrote.
However, the president recently touted a bipartisan border deal being negotiated in the Senate that he said “would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed,” a power he would use “the day I sign the bill into law.”
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Finally, Schoen pointed to Biden’s age, 81, describing the possibility of a Kamala Harris administration if something were to happen to him — a serious problem for Democrats, given her polling numbers.
Schoen said those factors do not mean former President Donald Trump is associated with less risk as he prepares for a rematch against Biden. Instead, Schoen underscored that while Biden is perceived as less risky than Trump, “there are still very real risks that we must acknowledge and be prepared to confront as a country, should Biden win.”
