Self-confident: Ex-First Lady Michelle Obama at a speech given by the Family Foundation

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The ex-First Lady is considered Plan B if Trump continues to pull away in the polls.

Return to the White House? The photo shows the presidential family with daughters Malia (left) and Sasha in December 2011.

US President Joe Biden (80) is on the ropes because of poor poll numbers - and wild speculation is simmering around him. A name comes up that only comes up when the Democrats panic...

The latest wave of panic started at the weekend: According to a “New York Times/Sienna College” survey, the 80-year-old has fallen behind his likely rival, ex-President Donald Trump (77), in critical swing states in the 2024 election campaign in Nevada He is eleven percentage points behind, as is Georgia (-6 percent), Arizona (-5 percent), Michigan (-5 percent) and Pennsylvania (-4 percent). Biden won all of these states in 2020.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama stands next to her official portrait during a ceremony at the White House.

Obama's strategist calls for "flying change"

With this data and other meager sympathy ratings (only 39% are currently satisfied with Biden's administration), the “Fox News” commentator Lisa Kennedy (51) made a brutal verdict: “Biden is broken! At the end! Trump can easily win!”

There is still exactly one year until the election battle for the White House (November 5, 2024). So Biden has time to catch up.

Nevertheless, an essential political strategist advocated a “flying change.” Biden should consider whether sticking with his candidacy, overshadowed by constant debates about his age, is “really wise,” said David Axelrod. He suggested that Biden should put his ego behind the country's interests.

Axelrod is not just anyone: He is considered the chief architect of the historic victory of the first black US President Barack Obama (62). And he served as a top adviser in the Oval Office.

The Obama veteran's barrage sparked shrill speculation. Even Republican Senator Ted Cruz (52) started the rumor that Axelrod wanted to prepare the ground for the candidacy of ex-First Lady Michelle Obama (59).

Shortly before moving out, Michelle Obama welcomes her First Lady successor, Melania Trump, for tea in the “Yellow Oval Room.”

Michelle Obama would have the best chance.

Some Democrats hope she could save the White House as a career changer in the election campaign. The fact that Barack Obama himself recently stabbed his presidential colleague in the back because of the Middle East war fueled the knife-sharpening within the party. Unlike Biden, Obama did not want to support Israel fully.

The political portal “The Hill” had already judged in the spring that Michelle Obama was the Democrat with the best chance in 2024. According to pollsters, she could win the party primaries against Biden by 48 percent to 36 percent. Poll numbers for a direct duel with Trump have not yet been compiled. But it is said to have great potential.

The big BUT: Michelle Obama practically insists like a mantra that she has no ambitions for her political career or a return to the White House.

Election Tuesday shows: Biden's party still has a pulse

This leaves Biden, who appears increasingly elderly, as America's liberals' only hope at the moment of being able to hold on to the White House. At least the national election day in the USA on Tuesday brought encouraging signals:

Democratic Governor Andy Beshear (45) easily won re-election in conservative Kentucky.

In Virginia, Democrats took complete control of the House.

And in Ohio, abortion rights were enshrined in the constitution by referendum.

On the one hand, it showed the party still has a pulse! But despite all these election successes, Joe Biden needed to be added to any ballot papers.