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The presidents low key reelection push has some Democrats calling for more urgency and intensity with less than a year until election day

President Joe Biden’s aides privately acknowledge a rematch with Donald Trump in 2024 could be his best path to reelection, but they are terrified by what would happen if he lost – which operatives on his campaign and throughout the Democratic Party worry is a very real possibility.

Score spoke with more than a dozen operatives at CampaignTech East to see which digital trends they hope campaigns ditch in the 2024 cycle.

At first glance, Democratic performance in last year’s House races was great. But a close look under the hood reveals that, with a few smarter moves and a little more luck, we’d have Speaker Jeffries.

And more from our Deep Dive interview with Robert Draper.

In Nevada, a major teachers’ union is withholding its endorsement, infighting has roiled the state Democratic party, and Republicans are inching up in the polls. “This would never have happened if Senator Reid were still alive,” a Nevada Democratic insider tells Vanity Fair.

And the White House goes all-in for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia.

POLITICO ‘He’s clearly laying groundwork’: Hawley paves 2024 path The Missouri Republican is the only senator to oppose every one of Biden’s Cabinet nominees to date. The youngest senator when he was elected in 2018, Josh Hawley is a soaring orator with a sense for tapping into Trump’s confrontational style of populist politics | Charlie Riedel/AP Photo Link Copied The face of the Biden resistance is taking shape in the Senate: Josh Hawley. In a prelude to a widely expected 2024 presi...

“He’s clearly laying groundwork”: Hawley paves 2024 path The youngest senator when he was elected in 2018, Hawley is a soaring orator with a sense for tapping into Trump’s confrontational style of populist politics. He often addresses the Senate floor in an unusual, direct-to-camera manner, pushing for bigger stimulus checks or condemning the Supreme Court decision expanding protections to LGTBQ employees. He’s distinguished himself within the GOP by promoting pricey solutions to the ...