President Joe Biden, 80, declined to confirm on Monday that he would launch his 2024 presidential campaign on Tuesday.
“I told you I’m planning on running,” the president said as he left an event in the White House Rose Garden. “I’ll let you know when soon.”
The Washington Post reports this on Thursday that Biden would announce his 2024 via video Tuesday — selecting the date because it would coincide with when he launched his successful 2020 bid for the White House four years earlier — on April 25, 2019.
As he beat former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, there are questions about his age – he is the oldest US president – and whether his sluggish polling will give Trump or another Republican an opening.
That was revealed on Sunday by a survey by NBC News 70 percent of American adults said Biden should not run for another term, while 26 percent said he should.
President Joe Biden, 80, declined Monday to confirm he would launch his 2024 presidential campaign on Tuesday
An NBC News poll published Sunday found that 70 percent of American adults said they did not want Biden to run for president again. Among the Democrats, the number was 51 percent
That daunting number includes Republicans.
However, 51 percent of Democrats — a slim majority — don’t think he should run.
Biden originally seemed ready to announce his 2024 re-election bid after the holidays — he said he would discuss it with family during trips to Nantucket and St. Croix — but then it was delayed for months.
Meanwhile, the race saw Biden pick up two Democratic challengers — albeit longshots — first self-help guru Marianne Williamson and then Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who gave an announcement speech in Boston on Wednesday.
Despite his prominent political name, Kennedy is one of the most prominent anti-vaxxers in the country, which is likely to undermine his bid for the Democratic nomination.
Yet a poll last week showed he starts with 14 percent of Biden’s voters, while the incumbent president retains 67 percent, according to a USA Today/Suffolk poll.
Biden’s main competitor on the Republican side, Trump, announced his run historically early.
The president and the first lady walk hand in hand to the Rose Garden on Monday. At the event he was asked about a report saying he would announce his run for 2024 on Tuesday
So far, Biden has drawn two Democratic challengers: (left) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent anti-vaxxer who announced his run Wednesday in Boston and (right) Marianne Williamson, a self-help guru
He gave a speech on Nov. 15 — a week into the 2022 midterms — at Mar-a-Lago to say he was coming in.
Since then, Trump’s former U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley said she was running for the GOP nomination while fellow South Carolinian Senator Tim Scott formed an exploratory committee.
Lesser-known former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson has also announced a bid, as has entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
Larry Elder, the Republican challenger to California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the 2021 recall race, jumped into the race on Thursday.
Also flirting with a run: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, among others.
Entering the 2020 race, Biden spoke about the 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia, incident — in which white supremacist hate groups gathered and a counter-demonstrator was killed.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that President Joe Biden will announce a re-election bid on Tuesday, four years after his 2020 announcement via video on April 25, 2019 (pictured)
Biden held his first rally of the 2020 cycle in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 29, 2019. Pennsylvania was won by former President Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, but reverted to blue when Biden was on the ballot in 2020
Biden took on Trump for saying there were “very fine people” on both sides, who said he was fighting for the “soul of the nation.”
The president teased a potential reelection slogan for 2024 in his State of the Union address when he said multiple times it was time to let him “get the job done.”
In 2019, Biden got on the campaign trail almost immediately by headlining a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – a major swing state.
It’s unclear when Biden would hit the campaign trail, even if he did announce Tuesday, since he’s hosting South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol before his administration’s second state dinner on Wednesday.
The South Korean delegation arrives on Tuesday evening.
And then Saturday is the White House Correspondents Dinner, traditionally attended by the president.