Should Joe Biden Run For Re-Election In 2024?

[Amadeus Arkham]

By the time we reach 2024 Joe Biden will be 82, and if he wins a second term he’ll only be a few years away from being 90. So I have to ask the fine gentleman and gentlewomen here do you want the very old Biden running for re-election? Biden isn’t getting younger and frankly I’d be hard pressed to imagine he’d be able to serve another four years in one of the most stressful and demanding jobs there is being the leader of the free world but do you guys still think he should run again or do you think he should be a one term president out of concern of his age?

[Tami]

I'd leave it up to him. It's too soon to be worrying about this. He isn't even past his first year in office yet.

[Captain Nostalgia]

Well, he's already surpassed the average male life expectancy in the US a few years back, so....

I would like to see him retire, and enjoy his final few years.

He's been a good servant to the country, (though u always run the risk of losing when a winner steps aside) it's time for him to take a rest.

[CSTowle]

In a vacuum, yes. Given the options when he bows out, I'm torn. Kamala Harris has shown me (and the country, outside of reflexively defensive supporters of anything Democratic) absolutely nothing to give me confidence she could either rally support to be elected over a Trump/Desantis type or that she could govern if elected. Of course if I were faced with the same choice I had last time (and the time before) of X vs Trump I'd take X, but I'd be doing it to vote against Trump. That's not a great choice to make and I'm not sure the public at large would be as motivated to vote against Trump when it's several years removed from his bungling of the pandemic and the economic downturn.

I like several options we had last time around, but clearly the Democratic voter base didn't and likely the electorate at large wouldn't either (as they are further to the left than the Biden's of the world). I don't see a viable centrist alternative. I'd like to be wrong, and some charismatic individual rise up and take a leadership role leading up to the 2024 cycle to give Biden something to think about. Sadly I think he's going to limp into 2024 as a shell of the man he was and it's going to depend on how conditions in the country are at the time (Covid, the economy, wildcard events we can't foresee) as to whether people will vote to stay the course or "switch it up" like they did with Trump (probably again with Trump).

Short answer, give me an alternative and I'll gladly co-sign Biden limping off into the sunset to enjoy the handful of years he has left.

[worstblogever]

I mean, if he wants to, but I think he will face a more progressive primary challenger, and should. I wish the poll had an option for making it clear that it's fine if the incumbent has another go, but it shouldn't mean this is a rubber stamp all the way through.

[signalman112]

Both parties need to find younger candidates.