Democratic President Joe Biden said last week that he was “not sure” he’d seek a second term if former President Donald Trump remained on the political bench.
“If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running,” Biden told a crowd for a fundraiser in Boston. “We cannot let him win.”
But some aren’t sure Biden will remain in the race, despite Trump and even if he wants to.
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On Friday, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy smelled something fishy in the long overdue indictment of Hunter Biden on tax evasion charges.
“The timing of the Hunter Biden tax indictment is one more sign that the deep state is planning to sideline Biden & pick a new puppet for 2024, all the while using this indictment as a perfect fig leaf to claim that the Trump prosecutions aren’t politically motivated,” he said on X (formerly Twitter).
“Kills two birds with one stone.”
Ramaswamy isn’t the only one.
A couple of days earlier, Trump told Fox News that he didn’t think Biden would be the Democrats’ candidate next year.
“I personally don’t think he makes it,” he said in an interview with host Sean Hannity, noting that liberals are becoming more outspoken in criticizing Bident and that Biden is in “bad shape” physically.
But the suggestion for Biden to get out is not coming only from the right.
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Last month, left-wing Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. wrote, “A Biden 2024 campaign isn’t worth the added difficulty that comes from his deep unpopularity. The Democratic Party should strongly consider embracing another candidate — or at least a truly open primary.”
Polls for weeks have shown that Trump is ahead of Biden. The latest came on Saturday.
The Wall Street Journal released its latest poll that showed Trump leading Biden 47-43, the biggest margin Trump’s had to date in the survey.
Moreover, Trump’s edge over Biden is padded by two points (37-31) if there is a third-party candidate in the race.
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