(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- THE MOST UNCERTAIN PRESIDENTIAL PICTURE EVER. The 2024 presidential election is three years from now. But it is dominating current politics even more than the next midterm elections, which are less than a year away. That is because of a set of unique — truth be told, bizarre — conditions of U.S. presidential politics on both the Democratic and Republican sides.
Start with the Democrats. A first-term president is expected, assumed, to be running for reelection. He has clout because he 1.) just got elected, and 2.) might be elected again. We call a president who no longer has the possibility of winning an election a "lame duck" — a description of weakness. It is generally assumed that a new president, were he for some reason to say that he would not or could not run for reelection, would be a lame duck from the start.
Joe Biden does not want to be that kind of president. He says he intends to run for reelection in 2024. But increasingly "even some of his allies are not sure he will," reports the Washington Post . Biden, who has been in office just 10 months, is already the oldest president in U.S. history. He will turn 79 this Saturday and will be 82 at the end of his term. Were he to run for reelection, he would be asking voters to trust him in office until he is 86 years old. There is no precedent for that in presidential politics.
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