Will Biden Run in 2024? Democrats Are Uncertain as Some Develop Propose Several Candidates As Plan B

The decision to run for political office should not be a haphazard one. Prolonged indecision and inertia on the matter when one is an incumbent, however, make things difficult for one’s party. According to Politico, this is the position that Joe Biden finds himself in with respect to his uncertain bid for re-election in 2024.

The day after the 2022 midterm election, Joe Biden seemed settled on running for re-election. “Our intention is to run again,” said Biden, “That’s been our intention. Regardless of what the outcome of this election was.” Even then in a moment of triumph of Democrats over-performing expectations in the election, he announced that “I think everybody wants me to run, but we’re gonna have discussions about it. And I don’t feel any hurry one way or another to make that judgment.”

Three months have elapsed since those words were uttered and Biden has still not made the decision whether to run. As Politico reports, “People in the president’s orbit say there is no hard deadline or formal process in place for arriving at a launch date decision.” Those in his orbit nevertheless think that in the end, Biden will run. However, there has been mounting frustration over the lack of clarity.

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As Politico notes “his indecision has resulted in an awkward deep-freeze across the party — in which some potential presidential aspirants and scores of major donors are strategizing and even developing a Plan B while trying to remain respectful and publicly supportive of the 80-year-old president.” Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Governor Phil Murphy (D-NJ), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) have been speculated potential aspirants for the post of Chief Executive in lieu of a Biden run.

So far the talk is that Biden may formally announce in April. As Politico notes, “That was the same month Biden unveiled his primary campaign in 2019, and the month that Barack Obama restarted his campaign engines in 2011. Bill Clinton declared in April of the year before he was reelected, and George W. Bush in May.”

Nevertheless, frustration is still being vented by some Democratic strategists. Mark Longabaugh said that ” it creates doubts and problems if he waits and waits and waits. But if he were to somehow not declare ‘til June or something, I think some people would be stomping around. There would be a lot of negative conversation … among Democratic elites, and I just think that would force them to ultimately have to make a decision. I just don’t think he can dance around until sometime in the summer.”

Meanwhile, the waiting game continues.