Joe Biden’s presidency has been a disaster. His agenda has created multiple crises across the globe. Despite this, he has said he plans on running for President in 2024, but now there is uncertainty about whether he will.
As many people thought that Joe Biden would declare his intention to run for re-election soon after delivering his State of the Union speech on February 7th. However, according to a report on Wednesday, Biden may not even be planning to run for the 2024 presidential election after all, as more than two weeks have passed, and there has been no such announcement. Meanwhile, Politico cited four individuals who are “familiar with the president’s thinking”, and they said that his plans to launch his campaign in February have already been missed.
After falling short of their original target, Biden’s advisers are now aiming for an announcement in April. Originally, they had planned to announce his 2024 bid in February.
“A final call has been pushed aside as real-world events intervene. Now they are coalescing around April,” the sources said.
Top Democrats are prepping for the possibility Biden decides not to run. Democrat Governors JB Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, and Phil Murphy have taken steps towards being ready to run in 2024 if Biden does not. Democrat Senators Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar have also taken these steps.
If Biden waits too long to announce it would create “doubts and problems” for the party according to Democratic strategist Mark Longabaugh.
In a report by Politico, While the belief among nearly everyone in Biden’s orbit is that he’ll ultimately give the all-clear, his indecision has resulted in an awkward deep-freeze across the party — in which some potential presidential aspirants and scores of major donors are strategizing and even developing a Plan B while trying to remain respectful and publicly supportive of the 80-year-old president.
Biden appears not to have made up his mind, while a re-election campaign was once thought to be a sure thing, the president is “a kind of Hamlet on Delaware’s Christina River, warily biding his time as he ponders the particulars of his final campaign,” the sources close to him claimed, the Politico reports.
“An inertia has set in, it’s not that he won’t run, and the assumption is that he will. But nothing is decided. And it won’t be decided until it is,” a Biden confidant said.
Major donors are also left in limbo. Time is on the Democrats’ side, the Politico reports added because they outperformed expectations in the midterm elections in November and they see “no threat of a credible primary challenge.”
A report suggested that President Biden’s team might be holding off on announcing his re-election campaign to avoid reporting a low fundraising amount for the first quarter. Despite this, Biden’s advisers have been working on building a campaign staff and have joined forces with a super PAC called Future Forward, which has already run TV ads in support of the president’s agenda. However, according to three sources, Biden himself has not discussed a potential campaign much and doesn’t spend a lot of time talking about the election.
But if he does run, Biden is going to follow the same plan he had in 2020 – hiding in the basement.
The Gateway Pundit reported:
“Joe Biden wants his 2024 campaign headquarters to be located in Wilmington near his Delaware basement.
In 2020 Joe Biden used Covid as an excuse to ‘campaign’ from his Delaware basement.
Joe Biden is expected to announce his 2024 reelection campaign in April.
Biden is unpopular and old so he wants to make sure his campaign headquarters is near his Wilmington home.
He doesn’t have what it takes to keep up with a grueling presidential campaign schedule.
“No decision has been made about where the campaign’s headquarters will be. The president has pushed for Wilmington, his hometown, according to people briefed on internal discussions. But some advisers fear that such a location would make recruitment harder, with younger campaign aides not eager to spend a year in a sleepy, small town. They are pressing instead for Philadelphia, where Mr. Biden’s 2020 effort was based.” The New York Times reported.
Sources: WesternJournal, The Gateway Pundit, Politico, Nytimes