, the 2024 election potentially becoming a sequel to 2020. Biden himself has fueled speculation in ways both intentional and not.
Last month, he said in a"60 Minutes" interview that he had not yet made a decision whether to seek reelection."I'm a great respecter of fate,"."And so, what I'm doing is I'm doing my job. I'm 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."
Several days after the"60 Minutes" interview, Biden attended a White House conference on hunger. During his remarks,, seemingly forgetting that she had been killed in a car crash several weeks before. Then again, Biden appears to have made up his mind. On Tuesday, NBC News reported that he told the Rev. Al Sharpton that he intends to seek re-election, as every president since Lyndon Johnson has done.in the White House last month, likely in the hopes that Sharpton will help with outreach to Black voters, who were crucial in helping win the Democratic primary in 2020.