Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Biden’s Already Thinking About 2022. Good!

The best things the new president can do to help Democrats in the midterm elections? Stay popular and pray for an economic boom.

January 14, 2021 at 12:30 PM UTC

By Jonathan Bernstein

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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It’s a good sign that President-elect Joe Biden and his team already appear to be concerned about the 2022 midterm elections. Presidents should care about electoral politics and their party allies, and awareness of the political clock is as much a part of good presidenting as is skill in negotiating trade deals or convincing executive-branch agencies to cooperate with the president’s agenda.