Whether or not Biden actually plans to run again, there are many good reasons for the president to keep insisting that he’s seeking a second term
Real or not, Joe Biden wants to keep his 2024 options open. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images As his first, up-and-down year as president nears its end, Joe Biden really wants you to know he plans to run for a second term in 2024. He reiterated his intentions in an ABC News interview last week, while making the requisite hedge that a reelection bid depended on him being “in good health.
There is legitimate doubt about whether someone his age could serve two terms. Joe Biden isn’t just any president. Earlier this year he became the oldest to take office by a goodly margin . If he runs in 2024 he would be the first octogenarian to seriously pursue a major-party presidential nomination.
Considering his relatively low-profile presidential style, Biden could get taken for granted or even written off if political observers think he’s out of there in 2024. This is actually a problem for every struggling first-term president. In mid-1979, a very unpopular Jimmy Carter facing an uphill nomination fight against Ted Kennedy went out of his way to tell reporters that if Teddy ran “I’ll whip his ass.” Biden needs to show some fight as well.
Harris is positioned well ideologically to unify Democrats if she runs as Biden’s preferred successor. But she has some significant popularity issues, and the Beltway insider class that influences media coverage has regularly disrespected her. Asked whether he would run against Trump if the former president was the Republican nominee, Biden chuckled and said he would.“Why would I not run against Donald Trump as the nominee?” Biden said. “That would increase the prospect of running.”
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