Biden Says 2024 Run ‘Remains To Be Seen’
The 79-year-old president’s ambiguity comes in sharp contrast to reports over the last few months stating in no uncertain terms that he would be seeking a second term.

President Biden during his first interview in several months seemed to signal that he is weighing the option of stepping aside in 2024 and letting another Democrat have a go at the Republican contender.
Speaking to “60 Minutes,” Mr. Biden said his oft-stated intention is to run for a second term, “but it’s just an intention.”
“Is it a firm decision that I run again?” he added. “That remains to be seen.”
Mr. Biden told interviewer Scott Pelley that it is too early to state unequivocally that he would be seeking the Democratic nomination in 2024.
“What I’m doing is, I’m doing my job,” Mr. Biden said. “Within the time frame that makes sense after this next election cycle, going into next year, [I will] make a judgment on what to do.”
The 79-year-old president’s ambiguity comes in sharp contrast to reports over the last few months stating in no uncertain terms that he will be seeking a second term, especially if President Trump runs again, and that he will announce after the November midterms.
The reports, by Bloomberg and others, said the president and his aides have been buoyed by improving poll numbers since the start of the summer. At one point in July, with gas prices rising and inflation peaking, the number of Americans who said they approved of the job he is doing dropped as low as 37.5 percent. Now, after a string of legislative victories, the number has ticked up to 42 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight’s poll tracker.
A number of his fellow Democrats have pointedly refused to encourage Mr. Biden, who will be 82 in 2024, to run again, citing the need for a new generation of leadership. Polls suggest that the public largely agrees, with only 26 percent of Democrats telling pollsters that he should seek a second term and as many as 64 percent saying someone else should step up.
In the past, Mr. Biden has been said to bristle at such talk and pointed out that the same polls show him ahead of Mr. Trump in a repeat of the 2020 election. The chatter peaked over the summer when it appeared that Republicans were poised to make major gains in Congress in the November election, which would have left him with little room to maneuver during the second half of his term.
Those fears have since faded, however, with polls suggesting that a Democratic wipeout in November is far from a foregone conclusion. Mr. Biden is said to have been fired up by the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and by Mr. Trump’s sparring with federal authorities over January 6, the results of the 2020 election, and classified documents.
The president reportedly told activists at a dinner last month that, if anything, the threat to American democracy is even greater now than it was in 2020, and it is imperative that the party succeed in November “as well as 2024.”