US President Joe Biden wants to know it again despite his advanced age of 80. He has announced that he will run for a second term – and now highlighted the advantages of his advanced age in an interview broadcast on Friday evening (local time). “I’ve gained a hell of a lot of wisdom. I know more than the vast majority of people,” the 80-year-old told MSNBC television on Friday night (local time).
“I have more experience than anyone who has ever run for this office. And I think I’ve proven that I’m both honorable and effective.”
Biden entered the White House in 2021 as the oldest president of all time. At the end of April, the Democrat announced that he wanted to run for a second term in next year’s presidential election. Biden will be 81 when elected in a year and a half, and he would be 86 at the end of a possible second term.
I just don’t think Vice President Harris has gotten the recognition she deserves.
Joe BidenUS President
The grandfather of seven has been in the political business for decades. He sat in the Senate for more than 35 years. From 2009 to 2017 he was deputy to then US President Barack Obama, before four years later he himself rose to the highest office in the United States.
Biden’s age and suitability to run again for the presidency have long been the subject of debate, including within his own party. The Democrat regularly attracts ridicule with slips of the tongue. It was only on Friday that Biden was maltreated because he announced a “big press conference” during an appearance in the White House for the afternoon and thus caused confusion.
Nothing was known of a press conference by the President, nor did it happen. US media, citing the White House, reported that Biden referred to the recording of the MSNBC interview when he made his announcement – and thus expressed it almost incorrectly. Political competition regularly uses small missteps of this kind to question Biden’s mental fitness.
Ex-President Donald Trump is again running as a candidate for the Republicans, against whom Biden had already contested his 2020 election campaign. Biden defeated the Republican incumbent at the time. Without naming Trump, Biden said: “We cannot allow the same man who was president four years ago to become president again in this election.” When asked what made him different from Trump, he replied: “Everything . Everything. Everything.”
A broad field of applicants is expected for the Republicans. In the case of the Democrats, on the other hand, Biden, as incumbent, is unlikely to have any serious competition. In order to actually run as his party’s official candidate, Biden has to be confirmed in internal party primaries.
Biden has already committed to returning to the race with his deputy, US Vice President Kamala Harris. However, Harris had remained pale in the past two years, had to struggle with image problems and could hardly score politically. In the election campaign, Biden’s team should therefore also be interested in polishing up their external image.
Biden’s first campaign video, with which the Democrat publicized his re-election ambitions, already offered a foretaste of this: Harris was given a lot of space in it.
When asked about this, Biden said in the interview with MSNBC: “I just think that Vice President Harris didn’t get the recognition she deserved.” She was “really very, very good” and didn’t get the attention she deserved.
At the coronation of the British King Charles III. Biden does not participate on Saturday. In the interview he promised a meeting with the king. He will stop in London before or after the NATO summit in Vilnius to talk to Charles “about the issue that interests him most, the environment,” Biden said.
The NATO summit in Lithuania’s capital will take place on July 11th and 12th. Biden and his wife Camilla will be represented by First Lady Jill Biden at the coronation on Saturday. In early April, President Biden congratulated Charles on his accession to the throne. (dpa, AFP)
