Joe Biden celebrates his 80th birthday while the decision for 2024 is imminent

Joe Biden celebrates his 80th birthday while the decision for 2024 is imminent

Joe Biden has become America's first eighty -year -old president because he celebrates his 80th birthday on Sunday.

Jill, the President's wife and closest confidant, will organize a brunch in the White House one day after Mr. Biden's granddaughter Naomi with Peter Neal - a colleague and former intern in the White House.

The talks will probably focus on the future and whether Mr. Biden will strive for a re -election in 2024.

"This is ultimately a family decision," he said at the beginning of the month. "I think everyone wants me to run, but we'll discuss it."

There are many others who prefer not to do it.

Record unpopularity

According to a survey by Edison Research this month, two thirds of the midterm voters said that they did not want Mr. Biden to run again. Among them are over 40 percent of democrats - an astonishing number for an incumbent president.

Overall, Mr. Biden's approval rate is only 42 percent - lower than with any other president in this phase of his term since World War II.

About 73 percent of Americans are "dissatisfied" or "angry" about "how things run in the USA", according to a CNN survey of November 8.



Although inflation goes back, it is still 7.75 percent.

Apart from politics, some allies see Mr. Biden's numerous gaffes as an increasing vulnerability in the eyes of voters.

Last week he spoke twice of visiting Colombia when he said Cambodia. Last month he said he had two words for Volvo factory workers in Maryland: "Made in America."

In September he searched for the late Congressman Jackie Walorski at an event in the White House in the room and said: "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? You wanted to be here."


In an AP Votecast survey among the voters this month, 58 percent of those surveyed stated that they did not believe that Mr. Biden has the intellectual skills to effectively serve as president. That was a dark assessment of his current reputation, not to mention the view of another possible term, at the end of which he would be 86 years old.

The allies refer to the interim elections in which the Democrats cut better than expected. Critics say that Mr. Biden's name was not on the ballot that had bad candidates - and an existential problem with Donald Trump - and that the Democrats still lost control of the house.

Steiniger Weg ahead

From January, Republican representatives will be ready to initiate a number of investigations, including the family of the President, whereby Hunter Biden's foreign business is examined.

"It will be angry," an employee of the Democrat told The Telegraph.

The White House insists that "President Biden cannot distract from these political attacks from concentrating on the priorities of the Americans". But serious questions are asked on topics such as the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and the loss of control over the southern border, where more than two million people have entered the USA in the last financial year.

The relentless Inquisition will inevitably demand its toll.


Several frequent age -related health problems have already been diagnosed with Mr. Biden.

He has arthritis of the spine that stiffened his passage, and he still suffers from nerve damage thanks to a broken foot in 2020.

Mr. Biden says that he starts with a training session at 8 a.m. when he is usually accompanied by his personal trainer and physiotherapist Drew Contreras.

"If I let go of it for a week, I feel it," he recently told the Smartless Podcast. "In the past I could go for a week and nothing changed."

employees of the White House say that Mr. Biden reads his briefing book deep into the night, holds intensive evening meetings with consultants and never came across their appointment inquiries, who may get up early, if rarely.

"I can't even say this number, 80"

other managers have chosen other approaches to deal with their progressive age.

to put the age of Mr. Biden in a political context: Bill Clinton - who won the 1992 elections - is today, 30 years later, younger than Mr. Biden when he took office last year.

When Ronald Reagan turned 70, he jokingly said: "I would like to thank you for starting the celebrations for my 31st anniversary of my 39th birthday."

John McCain, the Republican candidate of 2008, was 71 years old when he competed against a 46-year-old Barack Obama.

in NBCS Saturday Night Live he told the audience: "I ask you what we should look for at our next president?

"Certainly someone who is very, very, very old."



Many observers believe that Mr. Biden is too old to run again

In contrast, Mr. Biden almost denies.

"I can't even say this number 80," he said this month in a radio interview. "I mean it seriously. I don't feel it just as if I would come out and fly behind this desk."

Some insiders from Washington believe that Nancy Pelosis decide to withdraw from her role as spokeswoman for the House of Representatives at the age of 82 could think about Mr. Bidens and exceed his party, while the Democrats weigh whether they want to participate a proven winner or turn to the energy of youth.

"Even if you are highly competent and successful, there is a point at which you should step aside to give others the opportunity to lead aside, as others step aside to enable them?" Said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, to authority for political communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

"Pelosis decision makes such questions in the context of bidens explanation of 2020 that he was the bridge for a new generation of managers, even more important."

Decision time

A declaration will be decided in the coming weeks and months.

"I hope Jill and I have a little time between Christmas and Thanksgiving to actually take away for a week," he said at the beginning of the month. "My guess is that we will make this judgment at the beginning of next year."

There are many factors to take into account, not least who could be his republican opponent. "He really believes that he is the person who is best suited to beat Trump again, and that could be true," said an employee of the Democrats.

The other probable republican challenger is Ron Desantis, the governor of Florida.

"Desantis is a different ball game," said the employee. "We need them to go on each other to have the best chances."

Source: The Telegraph

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