Biden is a presidential candidate again?

Joe Biden speaking to the press, December 6, 2022 Saul Loeb/AFP

In the American capital, the possible candidacy of Joe Biden for a second presidential term is kept secret. Only the interested director does not seem to hide it.

A trip to Arizona on Tuesday proves that at 80, the Democratic leader is seriously setting the stage to stay in the White House until he is 86.

It is his first time there as president, and if the official reason is the promotion of a new semiconductor plant in Phoenix, then it is undeniable that this state in the southwestern United States, deeply divided, will be one of the key links in any successful presidential campaign.

The November midterm elections, in which the Republicans failed to regain the Senate and captured only the House of Representatives with a narrow majority, far from the expected “red wave”, were played by Joe Biden as a real victory.

And while his opponent Donald Trump launches his own 2024 campaign amid scandal, the current American president is enjoying the best period of his first term.

The US economy is not currently in line with forecasts of a severe recession. The Biden administration’s massive investment programs passed by Congress over the past two years are starting to pay off, funneling money into high-tech products like semiconductors, clean energy, and more traditional infrastructure like roads and bridges.

after holidays

Abroad, the US-backed alliance against the Russian invasion of Ukraine is still in place after nearly a decade and offsets the bitter sense of American failure in Afghanistan.

In Washington, Joe Biden has just completed a successful state visit with French President Emmanuel Macron.

“Things are moving, they are moving in the right direction,” the Democratic president recently said after the release of good data on the US labor market. Statements that are not similar to those of someone who intends to leave the political scene.

Joe Biden said his decision would not be made until “beginning of next year” and his chief of staff Ron Klein told the Wall Street Journal on Monday that he expects the president to make a decision “shortly after the decisions are made.” and “that his decision is to leave.”

For his political environment, this really seems like an open secret.

“I expect him to run,” Hakim Jeffries, the Democratic leader since January in the House of Representatives, told Fox News Sunday. “From everything I’ve heard from him publicly and privately, he intends to run again,” said Senator Chris Koons, a longtime friend of Joe Biden.

Family and doctors

Even Newt Gingrich, a Republican right-winger, is reluctant to express his admiration for Biden. “Stop underestimating President Biden,” he wrote on the news site Axios, warning Republicans of the performance he has shown during his presidency.

But it is the doctors and family of the current US president, and not political observers, who will decide on his future candidacy.

Some of the family “talks” mentioned by Joe Biden took place on the very prestigious island of Nantucket, off the US state of Massachusetts, where he was with his relatives for Thanksgiving. More family councils are expected for Christmas with the highly influential First Lady Jill Biden.

The annual medical report, due to be made public soon, could also be crucial.

Joe Biden, octogenarian, has some of the typical signs of old age: sparse hair, a clumsy walk – and a few falls – and frequent speech problems. However, a year ago, a White House doctor concluded he was “fit” for his duties. Will it still be there in two years?

Some medical tests have already taken place, others will be done, and the results are expected “in the coming months,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday.

Sebastian SMITH/AFP

Source: L Orient Le Jour

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