At 80 he’s already the oldest president in US historical past and if he served a second time period he could be 86 by the point he stepped down
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden will decide on whether or not he seeks a second time period in 2024 “shortly” after the brand new 12 months, his chief of workers, Ron Klain, stated Monday.
Talking at The Wall Road Journal’s CEO Council Summit, Klain stated Biden had been consulting along with his household. At 80 he’s already the oldest president in US historical past and if he served a second time period he could be 86 by the point he stepped down.
Klain, probably the most senior figures in Washington to touch upon the problem, stated in an interview broadcast by the Journal he believes “it is his intention to run.”
“I hear from numerous Democrats from throughout the nation that they need him to run,” Klain stated. “However the president will make that call, I anticipate, shortly after the vacations, however I anticipate the choice shall be to do it.”
At the moment the one declared candidate for the 2024 election is Donald Trump, the Republican whom Biden defeated in 2020 — and who continues to unfold invented conspiracy theories concerning the election having been rigged towards him.
Biden has given sturdy indications that he’ll run once more, whereas leaving open the likelihood that he won’t, saying he’s a “nice respecter of destiny.”
On November 9, after his Democrats did surprisingly nicely within the midterm elections, he stated it was his “intention to run once more” however that he would know for certain “early subsequent 12 months.”
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