Considering Joe Biden usually doesn’t know where he is or what day of the week it is, everything he says usually needs to be parsed through a senility translator. However, the one upside to his in-and-out moments of lucidity also means he lacks a filter to keep big secrets quiet.
Such was the case when Biden was participating in an Easter Egg roll and sharing a few moments with Al Roker, who insisted on breaking the big news of a formal announcement during a casual Eater hang out.
“Are you saying that you would be taking part in our upcoming election in 2024?” Roker asked Biden during their conversation.
“Well, I’ll either, I’ll eith—I’ll either be rolling egg or, uh, being the, the gu—you know, the guy who’s pushing them out,” Biden responded, ignoring the question entirely and also struggling to form complete and coherent sentences.
“Come on, help a brother out. Make some news for me!” Roker implored. It’s absurd to think that the current president would officially announce his intent to run for re-election during a brief interview on the White House lawn at Easter, but then again, everything about this presidency is absurd, so why not.
And amazingly, after unimpressively shifting away from the question entirely the first time he heard it, Biden unleashed a hint of what’s to come the second time around.
“I plan on running, Al, but we’re not prepared to announce it yet,” he stated.
Q: Are you running in ‘24?
BIDEN: “Well, I’ll either, I’ll eith—I’ll either be rolling egg or, uh, being the, the gu—you know, the guy who’s pushing them out”pic.twitter.com/vvWcozrRIL
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 10, 2023
Admittedly, few people likely expected Biden to last this long. Between his age, health, corruption, and everything else going on, there seemed to be one valid reason after another as to why he wouldn’t make it four years. But here he is, not better but not worse, and just hanging around.
At this point, why wouldn’t he go for it again? Presumably, we all expect him to want it, or for Jill to want it, and it’d be quite the spectacle for the establishment to throw the Biden family under the bus.
There’s also the fact that someone like Joe was purposefully propped up as the best way to dupe voters. Here was an old white guy who could be sold as a moderate against the media narratives of Donald Trump, and sure enough, suburban moms bought the lie hook, line, and sinker.
It doesn’t hurt that the Biden campaign selected perhaps the best insurance policy in political history by nominating Kamala Harris as the vice president. Not only did they score major woke points for installing the first black female in the administration, but they found one of the few people more incompetent and clueless than Joe.
Making things interesting is that Biden appears to have no time table to officially launch a campaign. This makes it harder for potential Democrat rivals to join the fray.
“In what I think is the unlikely chance that he ultimately decides not to run this time, he will need to do so soon enough that other candidates can get into the field to be competitive,” said Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons, the president’s close friend and ally. “I am encouraging him to run, and I think he will run. But he will make that decision on his timeline, not mine.”
CNN reported that Biden “has told several elected officials in private conversations that he’s in – “I am definitely running,” he told one person a few weeks ago, according to that person – but he has been less forthcoming on timing.”
A White House spokesperson has also previously mentioned Biden’s intent to run, but we are led to believe he wants to put Americans’ needs first.
“President Biden has been clear that he intends to run, and his focus is on finishing the work he’s doing for American families: continuing to bring manufacturing back from overseas, further cutting the deficit by having rich special interests pay their fair share, and standing up for fundamental rights like the freedom to choose,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates told CNN. “There has never been a timeframe for any announcement.”
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