Joe Biden Just Announced He’s Running for President Again—Here’s Everything We Know So Far
glamour.comduring a recent trip to Ireland that he was not yet ready to announce his reelection campaign, telling reporters: “We’ll announce it relatively soon.” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre brushed off questions about Biden’s 2024 run on April 20, noting at a press briefing: “What I will say is that any announcement or anything that is related to 2024 certainly will not come from here.”At 80, Biden is the oldest serving president in U.S.
history and would be 86 years old by the end of his potential second term, as to his fitness for the role and making the timing around his reelection announcement all the more important.
Biden, who has been described as missed his own self-imposed deadlines for selecting a running mate in 2020 before selecting , so this hesitancy to announce isn’t totally out of character for his administration, especially given the added expense of officially opening a presidential campaign; to that end, though, Biden had already started summoning major campaign donors to Washington as early as last week.So far, the main candidates in the field are writer and 2020 candidate Marianne Williamson—whose campaign has recently been —and environmental lawyer and author Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., who has risen to prominence as an Biden has already on issues including immigration and crime, presumably in part to solidify his status as a tough decision-maker ahead of the 2024 campaign.
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