Al Sharpton thinks Joe Biden will run in 2024


With the 2022 midterm elections just around the corner, and polls showing the race tightening in favor of Republicans, Democrats are increasingly nervous about whether or not President Joe Biden can win the presidential race in 2024. But will he run? Biden says he’ll decide after the midterms. If he decides to run, can he beat Trump?  In the meantime, Democrats are looking at the alternatives. Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman takes a look at a new development that could signal Biden’s intentions.

Major, major news is that Joe Biden told Al Sharpton he’s going to do it again, understood to mean that Joe Biden is running for re-election for president in 2024. 

This is per Al Sharpton, who says Biden said it to me when I saw him at a White House event. 

Very interesting development. There have been questions as to whether Joe Biden is going to run for re-election in 2024. One of the main reasons why there have been questions are Joe Biden’s age. Joe Biden, at this exact time is 79 years old. He will be 80 in November, shortly after the 2022 midterms. He will be almost 82 at the time of the 2024 presidential election and he would be 86 at the time that the next president would take over in January of 2029. 

So there have been questions as to whether Joe Biden plans to run. The bigger reason may be why I have been questioning whether Joe Biden actually plans to run for re-election is that his approval rating had been quite low. In fact, if you look back, for example, at the 538 Biden approval average, and you look back just a few months, you see that there was a point in roughly late July where Joe Biden’s approval was down into the 37s. And it was historically low compared to prior presidents at that point in their presidency. 

Since then, Joe Biden’s approval has recovered to about 43 and has basically sat there. And while 43, as a grade on a paper, we wouldn’t consider it particularly good, 43 doesn’t sound that high, it’s actually quite normal in this hyper-polarized modern political era. So with 43% and some significant legislative accomplishments behind Joe Biden – the Pact Act, the Inflation Reduction Act and long list of things we’ve talked about on the podcast – it started to become significantly more plausible that maybe Joe Biden would have a shot in terms of running for re-election.