(Washington) “It would increase the chances of me running”: Joe Biden said if Donald Trump ran for the 2024 presidential election, he would be even more determined to run for a second term.
The 79-year-old Democratic president was speaking in an interview with ABC channel on Wednesday night.
When asked whether he would run for his own re-election, Mr Biden said “yes”.
“But listen. I am someone who respects fate a lot […]. If I have the health that I have now, if I am healthy, then I will show up again ”.
What if that meant he would have to face Donald Trump, 75 again?
“You’re trying to tempt me,” he replied with a smile.
“Of course, why wouldn’t I run against Donald Trump if he was a candidate? It would increase the chances of me showing up, ”he said.
Mr. Trump continues to hammer out, without merit, that the 2020 presidential election that pitted him against Joe Biden was “fraudulent” and that it was “stolen” from him.
The one whose supporters attacked the Capitol on January 6 to prevent the certification of his rival’s victory has hinted in recent months that he could run for another term.
Mr Biden, whose old age is fueling speculation about his intentions for 2024, has already made it known that he plans to run again.
While its vice president Kamala Harris was initially seen as his natural heiress, Washington rumors about his relationship with the president and his political future.
Mme Harris, 57, seems to be struggling to find her place in the White House, where she is in charge of particularly delicate missions relating to the access of minorities to the vote or the origins of the migration crisis on the southern border with Mexico.