“It would not be a surprise” if President Biden drops out of the 2024 presidential race, according to a Biden biographer who has “unparalleled access” to the president’s “tight inner circle” for his new book.
Franklin Foer, the well-connected author of “The Last Politician,” said Sunday he would not rule out the 80-year-old commander-in-chief withdrawing from seeking a second term — because of the president’s strong belief in fate.
“I would say it would, it would be a surprise to me. But it wouldn’t be a surprise. … It wouldn’t be a complete surprise,” Foer told “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd when asked about the prospect of Biden removing himself from race towards the end of the year.
“When he talks about his life, he uses this word, fate, all the time,” Foer explained.
“Joe Biden is a very religious person, and destiny is a word loaded with religious meaning. And he always talks about, he can’t say where fate goes. So I always, when I hear it, to me, it’s an ellipsis in the sentence when he talks about his own future.
Biden, the oldest president in US history, will be 86 by the end of his second term if he wins re-election.
President Biden biographer Franklin Foer said it would not be a “total surprise” to him if Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Foer cited Biden’s strong belief in his own “destiny” as a potential reason for his withdrawal from the race.NBC
Privately, Biden “would sometimes admit that he felt tired,” during his first two years as president, according to excerpts from Foer’s book, which also states that the commander-in-chief’s “public persona reflects the physical decline and lethargy of the mental faculties of the time. that there is no pill or exercise regime can push.
“It doesn’t take Bob Woodward to understand that Joe Biden is old,” Foer told Todd, referring to the Washington Post reporter who broke the Watergate scandal.
“I’m not a gerontologist, and I can’t predict how Joe Biden will age in the next few years,” Foer said.
Foer wrote in his book “The Last Politician” that Biden privately admitted to feeling tired during the first two years of his term. Penguin Press
Biden formally announced his bid for re-election in April, asking voters to give him four more years as president to help him “get the job done” despite growing concerns about his advanced age.
Two-thirds of Democrats and 73% of registered voters believe Biden is too old to seek re-election, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released Monday, and only 36% of the poll’s 1,500 respondents said they believe the president is mentally healthy. for the office.
In public, Biden has acknowledged that questions about his age are “legitimate concerns” for voters.
But privately, the oldest commander-in-chief has “bragged to allies” about how much the topic is covered in the media, according to Politico.
“You think I don’t know how old I am?” An exasperated Biden scolded one of his acquaintances last year, according to the outlet.
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