Former senior Obama adviser David Axelrod warned that President Biden’s age could possibly be a “main difficulty” within the 2024 presidential election.
“The presidency is a monstrously taxing job and the stark actuality is the president can be nearer to 90 than 80 on the finish of a second time period, and that might be a serious difficulty,” Axelrod informed The New York Occasions of 79-year-old Biden.
“He seems to be his age and isn’t as agile in entrance of a digital camera as he as soon as was, and this has fed a story about competence that isn’t rooted in actuality,” he added.
Axelrod additionally claimed that Biden “doesn’t get the credit score he deserves for steering the nation by way of the worst of the pandemic, passing historic laws, pulling the NATO alliance collectively towards Russian aggression and restoring decency and decorum to the White Home.”
Biden has reportedly already informed political allies, together with former President Obama, that he intends to run for workplace once more in 2024.
However Biden shall be 81 in November 2024, and has confronted months of low approval scores, which reached an all-time low of 58 p.c disapproval in a Morning Seek the advice of ballot final week.
“I totally count on for him to run once more,” Democratic strategist Jim Manley has beforehand stated of Biden. “However I wouldn’t be stunned if there aren’t a bunch of Democrats and their staffers watching very fastidiously because the weeks and months go by.”
If Biden doesn’t run, Vice President Harris is on the prime of the checklist of potential contenders, although different earlier presidential candidates together with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and progressive Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) might also enter the race.
