President Biden is rumored to be “all-in” in a second run for the White House in 2024 – an official announcement is predicted inside weeks.
“I feel it’s all about timing at this point,” one among Biden’s allies The Hill said Saturday. “Looks like he’s all-in. It’s not likely about “if” running anymore.
The 80-year-old Biden, the oldest president within the nation’s history, could be 82 if he was inaugurated a second time – and 86 at the tip of his potential second term.
He and his senior associates are preparing the announcement, which is predicted to be released in February, across the time of the State of the Union address in Congress, multiple sources have said.
“The president has publicly said he intends to run,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said. “We’re aware that there isn’t any shortage of people that speculate, but only a few persons are knowledgeable about it.”
The president and his family decided that his bid for re-election was to go on a vacation trip to St. Croix, where they stayed within the elegant tropical island home of rich business owners Bill and Connie Neville.
But this week, they kept their plans under wraps, waiting for House Republicans to finish their battle for a recent House speaker, one Democratic lawmaker said.
The date of the State of the Union address is traditionally set by the House of Representatives – a task that may now fall to the brand new Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Biden’s critics reacted with horror to the prospect of a second term.
“From an open border to anti-energy policies to unsustainable spending fueling inflation, Joe Biden has been causing crisis after crisis,” representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-SI/Brooklyn) told The Post. “One thing is obviously, our country cannot afford one other 4 years of Joe Biden within the White House.”
Biden’s tenure has sent Americans into a depressing dizzy spell, according to this week’s Gallup poll that showed a big majority predicting economic pain and global conflict in 2023.
Many citizens blame Democratic policies for record-high inflation, soaring food and fuel costs, and regular increases in rates of interest which are choking homebuyers and business owners.
Meanwhile, Biden’s disastrous 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan and the continued bloodshed in Ukraine have solid doubt on his foreign policy leadership – while his approach to border enforcement has thrown the country into chaos, with greater than 2.3 million migrants crossing U.S.-Mexico border only within the last tax 12 months.
And his public appearances were is stuffed with embarrassing verbal lapses and gaffes, causing each critics and some allies to express concern about his sharp mind.
Social media pranksters pounced on Saturday’s news in regards to the president’s election plans.
“I ponder if Biden knows” Wenik mused on Twitter, together with a “Weekend at Bernie’s” meme showing Biden as a corpse backed by Vice President Kamala Harris and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
On Friday, he called his veep “President Harris” again and denounced the “July 6” riots, not January 6, on the 2021 U.S. Capitol.
In September, he sought out the late Congressman Jackie Walorski at a Washington event, forgetting that he had died in a automotive crash just weeks earlier, and in March he horrified allies when he explicitly demanded the overthrow of Vladimir Putin over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, forcing White House advisers to publicly denying him.
And with an acceptance rating of just 44% according to RealClearPoliticsBiden’s possibilities of re-election are questionable at best.
According to Gallup, no president in 70 years with lower than 45% approval has ever won a second term.