Thursday, December 29, 2022
PMT: It's beginning to look a lot like Biden....
CNN is reporting that the Biden family is heading off to the island of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands, and when they return Joe Biden is expected to make an announcement about the 2024 presidential race.
And... it sounds like he is running, at least as CNN describes it. Typically, a politician will make sure he has support of his family before making a decision on such a race (ie, the baffling Bobby Jindal family discussion on this).
Questions remain, of course, beyond Biden's decision. If he does announce a re-election run, the next questions are these:
-- Will any Democrats run against him in the primary? Biden is especially unpopular, and it must be tempting by some ambitious members of, say, the Senate.
-- Will Donald Trump immediately turn towards Biden, neglecting his own primary opponents and his recent problems?
-- Will the idea of two 80-somethings, Biden and Trump, running against each other just be too depressing for some Americans to take, leading to an independent run by someone 70 or younger?
