President Biden acknowledged issues about his age and mentioned his legacy in an interview with USA In the present day within the Oval Workplace, nonetheless claiming he would have received one other time period if he’d run in opposition to Donald Trump however admitting he is unsure if he might have lasted 4 extra years.
“Do you think you would’ve had the vigor to serve another four years in office?” USA In the present day’s Susan Web page requested.
“I don’t know,” Biden stated. “That’s why I thought when I first announced, talking to Barack [Obama] about it, I said I thought I was the person. I had no intention of running after [my son] Beau died – for real, not a joke. And then when Trump was running again for re-election, I really thought I had the best chance of beating him.”
“But I also wasn’t looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years old. And so I did talk about passing the baton,” Biden added, reflecting on issues over his age, particularly earlier than he dropped out of the presidential race.
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President Biden acknowledged issues about his age and mentioned his legacy in a brand new interview. (Getty Photographs)
A number of media experiences, together with from the Wall Road Journal and The New York Occasions, have included interviews with present and former White Home staffers who expressed severe doubts over the 82-year-old Biden’s stamina.
“But I don’t know,” the president went on. “Who the hell knows? So far, so good. But who knows what I’m going to be when I’m 86 years old?”
The president’s phrases seemed to be a stark admission that regardless of his repeated claims earlier than dropping out that he was in nice form, he realized his personal limits because the oldest president in American historical past.
Biden once more stated he believed he might have crushed Trump in a rematch. The president introduced that he was leaving the race following his shaky debate efficiency in opposition to him in June that laid naked the cognitive points that a lot of his supporters had denied or shielded. He finally endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who went on to lose the final election.
President Biden spoke with USA In the present day in an in depth interview earlier than leaving workplace. (AP Picture/Susan Walsh, File)
Biden’s feedback have been within the context of a dialogue about his legacy as president.
“And so I hope that history says that I came in and I had a plan how to restore the economy and reestablish America’s leadership in the world,” the president stated. “That was my hope.”
Biden argued that a bonus of his age is his expertise with world leaders and with historic modifications in numerous areas of the world.
“And I think the only advantage of being an old guy is that I’ve known every major world leader for a long time,” Biden stated.
“And so I had a perspective on each of them and their interests,” he continued. “And so I think it helped me navigate some of the fundamental changes taking place, whether it’s in Europe, in Latin America, in the Middle East, in the Far East. And anyway, that’s what I hope anyway, that I’m viewed in that context.”
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 24: U.S. President Joe Biden talks briefly with reporters as he departs the White Home on October 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Picture by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs) (Chip Somodevilla)
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