{"id":1646345,"date":"2022-09-19T04:04:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646345"},"modified":"2022-09-19T04:05:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:05:09","slug":"biden-says-will-make-firm-decision-on-2024-run-after-midterms-blames-pandemic-for-dwindling-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-will-make-firm-decision-on-2024-run-after-midterms-blames-pandemic-for-dwindling-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says Will Make \u2018Firm Decision\u2019 on 2024 Run After Midterms, Blames Pandemic for Dwindling Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-says-will-make-firm-decision-on-2024-run-after-midterms-blames-pandemic-for-dwindling-support%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646345&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden said in an interview on Thursday that it is \u201cmuch too early\u201d to decide whether or not to run\u00a0for re-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-election\">election<\/a> in 2024 and that he will wait until\u00a0after the\u00a0midterm elections in November to come to a final conclusion on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, if I were to say to you, I\u2019m running again, all of a sudden, a whole range of things come into play that I have, requirements I have to change and move and do in terms of election laws,\u201d Biden, 79, said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/president-joe-biden-2024-election-60-minutes-2022-09-18\/\">interview<\/a> with CBS\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes\u201d that aired on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s much too early to make that kind of decision. I\u2019m a great respecter of fate. And so, what I\u2019m doing is I\u2019m doing my job. I\u2019m gonna do that job. And within the timeframe that makes sense after this next election cycle here, going into next year, make a judgment on what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden reiterated that he still has not made a decision on the move, adding: \u201cLook, my intention as I said to begin with, is that I would run again but it\u2019s just an intention. But is it a firm decision that I run again? That remains to be seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s comments come after\u00a0White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mE23LnkOcTA\">insisted<\/a> that he would embark on\u00a0another presidential reelection campaign.<\/p>\n<p>That is despite concerns over his physical health,\u00a0mental acuity, and age. Biden is\u00a0the oldest person to have become president and will celebrate his 80th birthday in November.<\/p>\n<p>Support for Biden has also dwindled; with <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/\">multiple polls<\/a> indicating that his ratings have plummeted amid soaring inflation, which\u00a0came in at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-inflation-comes-in-worse-than-expected-as-food-shelter-costs-surge_4726956.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8.3 percent<\/a>\u00a0in August, and is hampering American households.<\/p>\n<p> Pandemic Has Been Profound <\/p>\n<p>When asked why he believes his support has declined, Biden on Thursday cited the COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pandemic\">pandemic<\/a>, which he declared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said in an interview on Thursday that it is \u201cmuch too early\u201d to decide whether or not to run\u00a0for re-election in 2024 and that he will wait until\u00a0after the\u00a0midterm elections in November to come to a final conclusion on the matter. \u201cLook, if I were to say to you, I\u2019m running again, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}