When President Joe Biden took office last January, his governing power immediately rested on narrow Democratic congressional majorities approving a legislative agenda that would require near unanimous buy-in from lawmakers.
The party was united in their support of the economic package that was signed into law in March of last year, with members committing to provide additional financial relief to Americans in the second year of the coronaviruses.
In his first year in office, Biden was able to get 40 of his nominees confirmed by the Senate, the most for a new president since Ronald Reagan.
According to a report by Politico, some progressives are concerned about turbulence for Biden's reelection campaign in the next two years.
In 2020, many liberals coalesced around the candidacy of Sen.Bernie Sanders, an independent who ran a strong campaign against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries.
Black voters, moderates, blue-collar workers, and independents were all drawn to Biden because of his appeal to them.
Biden was not the first choice of most progressives, but he embraced many of their ideas, including funding for universal pre-Kindergarten, tuition-free community college, and an expansion of home and community-based care for elderly Americans.
Many of these initiatives were included in the Build Back Better Act, which was put on hold last month when Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced his opposition to the bill. The Liberals predicted that the bipartisan infrastructure bill would be passed without the larger legislative counterpart in order to pass both bills at the same time.
Many progressives have seen enough and are threatening to challenge Biden in a second term, even though the bill had the support of virtually every other Senate Democrat in the 50-member caucus.
Jeff Weaver, who was the campaign manager for the presidential campaign of Vermont's Senator, said that Biden will face a liberal opponent.
Will there be a progressive challenger? He told the outlet yes.
Weaver said that he wasn't pushing for a primary challenger to go up against Biden, but even the talk of someone potentially mounting a campaign is a stark difference from last year.
Manchin's rejection of the framework was a huge blow to progressives.
Despite the president still having been in office for less than a year, Biden's sagging poll numbers have only made things worse for progressives.
Trent is the founder of the progressive No Excuses PAC and the former communications director for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
He's unpopular. Unless we're counting judges or using an inside-baseball scorecard, he's been largely ineffective. Trent thinks he will get demolished in the elections.
DC is filled with people who want to be president.
Jeff Weaver was a campaign manager.
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Someone who is similar toNina Turner orMarianne Williamson.
No major Democrat is seen as a viable candidate to challenge Biden.
Neither of the two candidates who occupied the progressive lane in the 2020 primaries are expected to challenge Biden.
While many progressives would love to see a future presidential run by Ocasio-Cortez, few people think she would run against Biden in a primary and risk her political future.
Some liberals think that a candidate who isn't currently an elected official may emerge, such as former co-chair of the campaign, Nina Turner, or Joe Sanberg. A high-profile progressive was asked if someone would challenge Biden from the left flank of the party.
"Yes, but someone like Turner or Williamson." The individual said that they didn't think anyone was currently elected.
When contacted by the website, neither Turner nor Sanberg responded to the question of whether or not they would run for president in 2024.
Weaver said that a progressive challenge wouldn't be a repudiation of the president, but a consequence of the left's growing influence within the party.
He told the outlet that progressives are in control. If nothing else, a progressive running who gets a lot of support will show that the ideas that the progressive movement embraces are popular.
Biden has been following the message.
The president has not yet forgiven student loan debt for individual borrowers, nor has he wiped out up to $50,000 in loans for individuals, but he did extend the moratorium on student loan payments until May.
liberals have challenged Biden to take more consequential action regarding loan forgiveness
The positive relationship that he's enjoyed with the Biden White House, especially as it pertains to input regarding the Build Back Better Act, was highlighted by Rep. Ro Khanna of California, a prominent progressive and former Sanders campaign cochair.
He said that President Biden and his senior team reached out to him after the campaign ended. We have eight years to implement a bold progressive vision because he will have my enthusiastic support in 2024.
