BREAKING: More Senior Staffers Quit On Biden

Two more senior staffers are departing the Biden administration amid evidence that voters are ambivalent about supporting President Biden’s reelection as an octogenarian.

Remi Yamamoto, who served as senior advisor to recently-departed Chief of Staff Ron Klain, is set to leave her role soon according to Washington Examiner. Yamamoto has been at Biden’s side since his campaign while purposefully maintaining a low profile among the president’s tight knit band of loyal advisors.

Her resignation comes on the heels of a departure by White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, who President Donald Trump previously referred to as part of Biden’s “team of killers” responsible for spinning favorable news coverage for the administration. Bedingfield served as deputy campaign manager for Biden’s 2020 election.

After announcing Bedingfield’s departure, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took a swipe at Trump for his criticisms of Bedingfield’s work on behalf of Biden:

“I understand that after a certain previous occupant of this White House, whose name will be nameless, but — as you know who this person is — he got angry and yelled and said, quote, ‘Biden has a team of killers. All I’ve got — all I’ve got is a defense,’” KJP said. “Okay, that was in the campaign. That was — the campaign communications team started calling Kate and the captain — the captain of the Team [of] Killers.”

Transitions among senior presidential staff are frequent especially in the second half of a first term, but recent turnover may also be explained by Biden’s cratering poll numbers among voters.

A March poll by YouGov showed nearly 7 in 10 voters believe Biden is “too old for another term” with more Democrats agreeing with the sentiment than not. The president’s party gives him resoundingly high marks for his performance in office. Some of his latest statements have members of the media wondering if Biden would prefer to cement his legacy through a single term rather than put it at risk in a bruising reelection campaign.