President Joe Biden, 80, wouldn’t confirm on Monday reports that said he would launch his 2024 presidential campaign this Tuesday.
‘I told you I am planning on running,’ the president said as he departed an event in the White House Rose Garden. ‘I will let you know real soon when.’
The Washington Post reported Thursday that Biden would announce his 2024 on Tuesday via video – selecting the date because it would coincide with when he launched his successful 2020 bid for the White House four years before – on April 25, 2019.
While he vanquished former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, there are questions about his age – he’s the oldest American president – and whether his sluggish poll numbers will give Trump or another Republican an opening.
On Sunday, an NBC News survey showed that 70 percent of U.S. adults said Biden should not run for another term, while 26 percent said he should.
President Joe Biden, 80, wouldn’t confirm on Monday reports that said he would launch his 2024 presidential campaign this Tuesday
An NBC News poll released Sunday showed that 70 percent of U.S. adults said they didn’t want Biden to run for president again. Among Democrats the number stood at 51 percent
That discouraging number includes Republicans.
Among Democrats, however, 51 percent – a slight majority – don’t believe he should run.
Biden originally seemed primed to announce his 2024 reelection bid after the holidays – saying he would discuss it with family on trips to Nantucket and St. Croix – but then it got delayed for months.
Meanwhile the race saw Biden attract two Democratic challengers – albeit longshots – first self-help guru Marianne Williamson and then Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who gave an announcement speech Wednesday in Boston.
Despite his prominent political name, Kennedy is one of the country’s most prominent anti-vaxxers, which will likely tank his bid for the Democratic nomination.
Still, a poll last week found that he starts off with 14 percent of Biden’s voters, while the sitting president retains 67 percent, according to a USA Today/Suffolk poll.
Biden’s primary competition on the Republican side, Trump, announced his run historically early.
The president and first lady walk hand-and-hand to the Rose Garden Monday. At the event he was asked about a report that said he would announce his 2024 run on Tuesday
So far Biden has attracted two Democratic challengers: (left) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent anti-vaxxer who announced his run Wedesdayh in Boston and (right) Marianne Williamson, a self-help guru
He gave a speech on November 15 – a week after the 2022 midterms – at Mar-a-Lago to say he was getting in.
Since then, Trump’s former U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley said she was running for the GOP nomination, while fellow South Carolinian, Sen. Tim Scott, formed an exploratory committee.
The lesser known former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has also announced a bid, as has entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
Larry Elder, the Republican challenger to California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the 2021 recall race, jumped into the race Thursday.
Also flirting with a run: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, among others.
Biden entered the 2020 race talking about the 2017 incident in Charlottesville, Virginia – in which white supremacist hate groups gathered and a counter-protester was murdered.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that President Joe Biden will announce a reelection bid on Tuesday, four years after his 2020 announcement made via video on April 25, 2019 (pictured)
Biden held his first rally of the 2020 cycle in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 29, 2019. Pennsylvania was won by former President Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, but flipped back to blue when Biden was on the ballot in 2020
Biden took on Trump for saying there were ‘very fine people’ on both sides, saying that he was fighting for the ‘soul of the nation.’
The president teased a possible 2024 reelection slogan in his State of the Union address when he said multiple times it was time to let him ‘finish the job.’
In 2019, Biden hit the campaign trail almost immediately by headlining a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – an important swing state.
It’s unclear when Biden would hit the campaign trail even if he announced Tuesday, as he’s due to host South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for the second state dinner of his administration on Wednesday.
The South Korean delegation arrives Tuesday night.
And then Saturday marks this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which the president traditionally attends.
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