You wouldn’t know it from his campaign’s all-smiles exterior, but President Biden’s web of campaign advisers is deeply irked by an electorate that credits his predecessor, Donald Trump, for many of Biden’s signature victories. In an especially deep cut to Biden’s signature bipartisan infrastructure bill, a majority of voters now say Trump did more to rebuild America than Biden’s historic legislation.

Ouch.

Though they won’t say so out loud, it’s clear many of Biden’s senior staffers expected 2024 to be a romping replay of 2020. Instead, they’re facing sagging swing state poll numbers and a Democratic coalition on the verge of losing its left flank over issues ranging from immigration policy to Israel. If Biden can’t turn those voters out in November, he’s toast.

Pollster and long-time Democratic adviser Mark Penn compounded Biden’s headaches on Sunday in a New York Times op-ed unsubtly titled “Biden is Doing it All Wrong.” Penn’s criticism needles Biden from unfamiliar territory: the moderate center, where Penn argues Biden has alienated his core constituency by failing to spotlight crime and immigration policy. That will come as a surprise to the same Joe Biden who was portrayed as too tough on crime during........

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