US President Joe Biden has “every intention” to seek re-election in the 2024 elections amid reports of internal debate among Democrats about whether he should be the candidate for the next presidential elections, the House reported Monday White.
This was stated bluntly by the presidential spokesperson, Jen Psaki, in her daily press conference in response to questions about doubts within the president’s party.
In recent weeks, rumors have grown about discussions within the Democratic Party about the possibility of Biden running in 2024 due to his falling popularity and his 79 years, which make him the oldest president in the history of USA
Psaki rejected this information and assured that Biden and his team are focused on working “right now” for “what the American people chose a little more than a year ago”, particularly putting the pandemic under control and improving the economic situation.
The logical choice to succeed Biden would be Kamala Harris, since many vice presidents have been presidential candidates in US history, but the first woman to reach the vice presidency has seen her public profile diminish and also suffers a nosedive. of its popularity.
Before that, however, lies the next major US electoral battle, the midterm legislative battle next year.
In those elections, the Democratic party faces the possibility of losing the narrow majority that they now hold in both the Lower House -221 seats compared to 213 Republicans- and in the Senate, where both parties have 50 representatives although Vice President Harris has the tiebreaker vote.
