President Joe Biden's approval has increased steadily since he hit his nadir toward the middle of last year. A YouGov poll showed that 49.6 per cent of those surveyed approved of his job performance.
He also enjoyed a better-than-expected midterm election and Democrats gained a Senate seat from his native Pennsylvania in November. Inflation, his most stubborn foe, has also steadily declined. All of this should prime him for a potential 2024 run, since most of the promising Democrats will likely get out of his way if he were to seek a second term.
That is what makes the question of how Mr Biden's team responds to the discovery of documents from his time as vice president at his home all the more salient. Over the weekend, it was announced that five additional documents were found at the president's home in Delaware.
Republicans are hoping to make hay out of this investigation, and Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer sent a letter asking for a visitor log of everyone who came to Mr Biden's Delaware home only for the White House to say such a log doesn't exist.
While Republicans have sought to draw an equivalency between the Biden, Democrats have sought to make an argument about proportionality. Representative Jamie Raskin, Mr Comer's counterpart on the Oversight Committee, told CNN's Jake Tapper that it was important to keep a "sense of symmetry," adding that former president Donald Trump fought with the federal government about turning over documents for more than a year before the FBI executed a warrant at Mar-a-Lago.
At the same time, Mr Raskin said "I don't know yet," what someone must do if documents are found. It is entirely likely that voters themselves might either not be able to differentiate between the two presidents, or if they reserve judgment.
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