'Outnumbered' panelists discuss President Biden's performance on the world stage as he campaigns for a second term in 2024.a recent piece
Bai argued Biden’s team should start talking about the economy’s"long-term trajectory" rather than push"comforting statistics from last quarter." The columnist described Messina’s strategy, saying,"To be fair, the point of Messina’s much-emailed slide show wasn’t so much the substance as the hopeful tone. The message is that a respected party strategist thinks Biden is in pretty good shape, so everyone should just chill. Biden, Messina promises us, is ‘in a better position than most people realize.’"
He then skewered the Biden strategy, stating,"All of this gets to a problem with Democratic campaigns generally, which is the eggheaded idea that people will be happy with your policies if you just keep telling them how happy they ought to be. I’ve sometimes referred to this as the ‘turn up the volume’ theory of campaigning.