Washington-. Joe Biden gave a new hint about running for a second term in the United States after confirming his 2024 re-election plan to former President Barack Obama, according to The Hill newspaper, published today.
The idea keeps popping up in public appearances by the Democratic president, who commented early in the race for his party’s nomination that he hopes to become an interim president if he wins in November 2020.
However, on January 20, he anticipated a possible intent to repeat another term in the Oval Office, commenting that Kamala Harris, the current vice president, would be his running mate.
In December 2021, Biden told ABC that if Donald Trump ran for office, “it would increase my chances of running,” and when asked about it, he replied “yes,” though he admitted it will all depend on his health .
Unknown sources quoted by the newspaper indicated that the president “wants to present himself and make it clear to everyone”.
But aside from strong political winds and low approval ratings, it’s Biden’s age that has raised questions about his future.
If my health is similar to what I am now, if I am fine, then I will run again, said the president, who turned 79 on Nov. 20 and would be 82 at the start of a second term, setting his own record for the longest-serving White House chief in national history.
A recent CNBC poll found that 53 percent of Americans disapprove of the president’s overall accomplishments, while in business, 60 percent of respondents disapprove of his job.
An average of the tracker FiveThirtyEight puts Biden’s acceptance rate at almost 42 percent.
Some experts believe the environment could be different in early 2023, when inflation is expected to ease and post-Covid-19 normality consolidates, which would put Biden in a better position for the 2024 campaign.
“It can recover,” Basil Smikle, a Democratic strategist and director of the public policy program at Hunter College in New York, told The Hill.
Much will depend on the outcome of the midterm elections, the analyst stressed, noting that “if the Democrats don’t do very well, they will go into 2024 from a position of weakness.”
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, recalled that other presidents, including Republican George W. Bush (2001-2009) and Democrat William, have recovered from difficult times and successfully run for re-election Clinton (1993-2001) and Obama (2009-2017).