What future for Joe Biden, very weakened less than a year from the midterms?

Officially, he is still considering running again, with Kamala Harris by his side, he said. But after defending his record on Wednesday during a nearly two-hour marathon press conference, Joe Biden suffered a snub in the process. The Senate buried electoral reform, with two centrist Democrats, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who refused, alongside Republicans, to change the rules to adopt the text by simple majority.

Democratic divisions, galloping inflation, pandemic, tensions with Russia, China, Iran and North Korea… Joe Biden is going through a period of turbulence. Two out of three Americans believe that the United States is badly engaged, and its approval rating peaks at 41%. Such figures, if they do not go up, portend a Democratic rout in the Midterms of November 2022. They could lose control of the House and the Senate, with a Joe Biden who would bring America to cohabitation for the second half of his term. And a candidacy in 2024 potentially threatened.