The president “plans” to run for re-election in the 2024 presidential election, he said Monday in an interview with NBC.
“I plan to run… but we are not ready to announce it yet,” said the president in a conversation on the Today program of the US network. He did it before the Easter egg ritual, the Egg Roll, at the White House.
Biden will be about to turn 82 when the elections are held, on November 5, 2024, and would take office on January 25 already at that age; he makes them on November 20th. Therefore, if he were elected and all went well, he would finish his second term at 86.
The Democratic leader had already advanced that he would most likely run for that second and – given the country’s rules – last term. The question was always the same: his advanced age. And his answer, equally identical in essence, always to remove that factor from being relativized: “Look at me. The important thing is to be able to do the job. I feel fit”…
