Last Call For Biden, Still Ridin'

Joey Aviators is the Big Eight Oh today.

Join us in wishing President @JoeBiden a happy birthday! 😎 pic.twitter.com/GCswAnfE4q

— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) November 20, 2022

 

Biden is the oldest President in US history, however you want to think about that.

People in their 80s lead countries, create majestic art and perform feats of endurance. One entered the record books for scaling Mount Everest. It’s soon time for Joe Biden, 80 on Sunday, to decide whether he has one more mountain to climb — the one to a second term as president.

Questions swirl now, in his own party as well as broadly in the country, about whether he’s got what it takes to go for the summit again.

The oldest president in U.S. history, Biden hits his milestone birthday at a personal crossroads as he and his family face a decision in the coming months on whether he should announce for reelection. He’d be 86 at the end of a potential second term.

Biden aides and allies all say he intends to run — and his team has begun quiet preparations for a campaign — but it has often been the president himself who has sounded the most equivocal. “My intention is that I run again,” he said at a news conference this month. ”But I’m a great respecter of fate.”

“We’re going to have discussions about it,” he said. Aides expect those conversations to pick up in earnest over Thanksgiving and Christmas, with a decision not until well after New Year’s.

Biden planned to celebrate his birthday at a family brunch in the White House on Sunday.

 

It's up to other Democrats to make the case that Biden, or if he does decline, the first female VP in history, Kamala Harris, shouldn't be the standard-bearer in 2024. And so far, I've seen absolutely nothing compelling in that regard.

Nothing. Even if you believe Biden is too old, Harris is the veep, and we beat Trump with that ticket, handily. Stop pretending the Democrats didn't have the best midterm defense in decades under them, either. If they are so very unpopular, why, if it wasn't for Supreme Court interference in gerrymandering in Southern states, did we keep the Senate and almost retained the House?

Let's remember who the real enemy is here.  It's not Joe.