Joe Biden says 'yes' to re-election bid during White House press conference
Joe Biden answers 'yes' when quizzed about re-election run
When asked by Sky News reporter Mark Stone: “Are you going to run again, sir?”, the 80-year-old responded: “Yes!”.
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Biden would announce his 2024 re-election campaign 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. But sources have cautioned the exact timing may change.
He is the oldest person to have occupied the White House and would be 86 at the end of a second four-year term, opening up questions about his age and whether his sluggish poll numbers will give his rival Donald Trump or another Republican an opening.
On Sunday, an NBC News survey showed that 70 per cent of US adults said Biden should not run for another term, while 26 per cent said he should. That discouraging number includes Republicans.
Among Democrats, however, 51 per cent - a slight majority - don’t believe he should run.
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Biden originally seemed primed to announce his 2024 re-election 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.
The president is scheduled to speak at the North America’s Building Trades Unions’ US Legislative Conference in Washington on Tuesday, an echo of his first campaign event in 2019, when he spoke at a union hall in Pittsburgh.
Much has changed since then, with the pandemic that reshaped US life for nearly three years, high inflation, a loss of federal abortion protections and threats to democratic institutions which have fuelled Democrats in key battleground elections.
Jen Psaki, Biden’s former press secretary said on her MSNBC show on Sunday: “Part of the case President Biden will make to the public after he announces his reelection campaign is that he needs more time to do more and build on the things he has done during his first term.
“That’s the message: ‘Let me finish the job I started.’”
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