Motivation for the next election
Biden doesn’t know whether he would run again without Trump
December 6, 2023, 2:40 a.m
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When he took office, Joe Biden was the oldest US president of all time, and he plans to run for a second term next year. Why? It has to do with Donald Trump, reveals the 81-year-old.
US President Joe Biden wants to move into the White House again after the 2024 election. He would be 82 years old at the start of his second term. Now he has spoken out about his motives. “I’m not sure I would even be running if Trump wasn’t running,” Biden said at a campaign event near Boston, according to journalists traveling with him. But you shouldn’t let former US President Donald Trump win.
The Republican – also not young at 77 – wants to become his party’s presidential candidate again and has a huge lead over his competitors in internal party polls. Among the Democrats, Biden is clearly seen as the most promising candidate to win the primaries. He moved into the White House in 2021, already then as the oldest US president of all time. Biden’s age and his suitability to run for president again have long been the subject of debate, including within his own party.
Biden had often made it clear in the past that Trump was an important motivation for his renewed application. However, in April he put this into perspective: “I think I would still run if he didn’t.” There is still a lot of work that needs to be completed.
Praise for Cheney
Recently, warnings about another Trump presidency had become particularly loud again. Republican and Trump critic Liz Cheney warned that the US was in danger of “sleepwalking into a dictatorship.” Biden praised the former congresswoman’s “powerful voice.” The rather liberal magazine “The Atlantic” dedicated an entire issue to the dangers of another Trump presidency.
Trump, on the other hand, recently turned the tables and called Biden the “destroyer” of democracy. Trump was defeated by Biden in the 2020 presidential election, but to this day refuses to admit his defeat and spreads the lie of election fraud. As a result, he has to answer in court in several criminal cases – a first in US history. Last year he even called for the constitution to be undermined on the social media platform he co-founded. He wrote: “A massive fraud of this nature and magnitude allows the repeal of all rules, regulations and articles, including those in the Constitution.”