Is President Joe Biden going to break another record and become the oldest president elected to a second term?
According to a report in the Washington Post on Sunday, the president and people close to him recently began sending a clear message to his allies in the political world that he intends to run for president again in the 2024 election.
Biden's hive's decision to broadcast this message was intended, according to the paper, to reassure its supporters, who fear it is not imbued with a fighting spirit and this will negatively affect the entire Democratic Party, which is already on standby ahead of the November 2022 midterm elections. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and one-third of the seats in the Senate are at stake.
According to the paper, Biden's efforts come amid a "growing sense of distress over the past six months among the Democratic Party, which has seen Biden's status plummet by more than 12 percent in light of fears of inflation, intra-party wars and continued poor response to the Corona epidemic. . " Biden's entourage, according to the paper, hopes these calming messages will remove from the agenda the hypothesis of many within the party that Biden will not run for president again because of his extreme age - he turned 79 on Saturday - or because of his unprecedented rapid erosion. His tenure, which could lead to the loss of the Democratic majority in the Senate and House of Representatives in the midterm elections.
Unlike his predecessor Donald Trump who announced immediately upon taking office his intention to run again, Biden is likely to be officially announced only after the midterm elections.
Usually an incumbent president gets to be his party's candidate without any significant competition, but in a recent poll by the NPR network.
Among Democrats, they were equally divided when asked if they would prefer something else to be the party's presidential candidate.
According to the report, his advisers emphasize in the messages they convey that his health condition does not prevent him from coping.
"He told people he was planning to run and we'll be ready for that," one of his advisers told the Washington Post anonymously.
Either way, on Friday, the day before his birthday, he conducted the presidential health review at Walter Reed Military Hospital in Maryland.
At the end of the tests, the doctors issued a report stating that "President Biden is in a healthy, energetic state, in a position to fulfill the presidency of all her duties, including as commander-in-chief."