As it is, Joe Biden's assistants prefer him using a 'fake Oval Office' staged in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is just next door to the White House, fitted with a massive, hiddent from the press' cameras and easy-to-read teleprompter, Politico reported Thursday.
Biden, famous for his many verbal errors, has been in office for more than 15 months and has said publicly and in private that he intends to run for reelection in 2024. The new report couched the anecdote about the Oval Office in a larger look at how some allies and Democrats worry that Biden, 79, won’t be able to withstand another campaign.
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Biden overtook former President Donald Trump by 7 million votes in the popular vote in 2020, but both candidates drew record numbers, each obtaining roughly 81.2 million and 74.2 million votes.
Trump has teased a 2024 bid but has not yet made an announcement, suggesting he will make a decision after the midterm elections in which he is trying his hold over the Republican Party with a wave of endorsements.
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Although Biden's support ratings are down at a time when inflation is high, the Coronavirus lingers, and Russia is attacking Ukraine, "Bidenworld," and the President himself believe Biden is "the only person" who can beat Trump, Eugene Daniels, a White House correspondent for Politico, recently reported.
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In March, Biden said he would be "very fortunate" if Trump ran against him again.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have both told aides and confidants that they’re inclined to run for the White House next cycle — and assured of their chances of winning — if the other runs. But as each camp gears up for a rematch of the badly contested 2020 contest, there remains a small hiccup: Neither is inclined to pick up the glove first.
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It’s a game of political chicken that — as explained by more than a half dozen advisers to the two men — has largely taken the field among Democrats and Republicans alike, raising concerns about the future health of two parties being led by a pair of candidates who, by that Election Day, would have long ago celebrated their 75th birthdays.
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“It’s a very unusual situation where there are people in both parties who would likely clear the field, and for the first time in modern history we might not have a very competitive primary on either side,” said Alex Conant, a Republican strategist who was a senior adviser on Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential bid. “So it’s hard to think of what that would look like other than it being a brutally long election campaign.”