Jill Biden gave one of the clearest indications on Friday that the president will seek re-election in 2024
Although Biden has long said that it is his intention to seek reelection, he has yet to make it official, and he’s struggled to dispel questions about whether he is too old to continue serving as president. Biden is currently 80 and would be 86 at the end of a second term.
“He says he’s not done,” Jill Biden said in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, on the second and final stop of her five-day trip to Africa, which started in Namibia earlier this week. “He’s not finished what he’s started. And that’s what’s important,” she told the Associated Press in an exclusive interview between events in Kenya.
But she brushed off the question about whether she has the deciding vote on whether the president runs for reelection. Donald Trump, who turns 77 in June, announced last November that he would run for the presidency again in the 2024 election, despite his being soundly defeated byin 2020 and fomenting an insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 by his own supporters intent on overturning Biden’s victory.
Trump is also under investigation in a series of criminal cases and civil actions. These relate to a variety of matters including
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