According to an NBC News report, former Secretary of State and Dem presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is expected to increase her efforts to help with President Joe Biden’s re-election efforts in 2024.
Clinton remains a solid fundraising draw for the party and is more popular with voter demographics Biden is struggling with.
From NBC News:
Clinton is popular with women and key parts of the Democratic base and remains a fundraising draw who can help ensure Biden has the money to get his message out. There is still a two-for-the-price-of-one theme when it comes to her family: Husband Bill Clinton made a cameo at the fundraising event at their Washington home.
Clinton’s role is only expected to grow in the new year, but for now, she is filling a space that at a later point in the campaign season former President Barack Obama will join. Obama’s habit is to plunge in closer to Election Day — a reality that rankles some Democratic strategists who say the party sorely needs him right now.
Biden and Clinton have not always been close — she elbowed him out of running in 2016 — but the president is thirsty for allies right now. His approval numbers are at an all-time low, and he is running neck and neck with a Republican front-runner, former President Donald Trump, who is under indictment in four separate cases.
Just last month, Clinton hosted a Women’s Leadership Forum and helped raise nearly $1 million for President Joe Biden’s re-election effort.
“At the end of the day, Biden needs all the help that he can get,” a Democratic strategist said, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk openly about Biden’s prospects. “What he needs is both the spirit and the actual reality of unity.”
Hillary Clinton’s role in President Biden's re-election campaign is expected to grow in the new year. https://t.co/xBitATTHr5
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 10, 2023