Posted on 09/03/23
| News Source: NY Daily News
It “wouldn’t be a total shock” if President Biden cancels his reelection bid by the end of the year, his biographer said Sunday.
“It doesn’t take Bob Woodward to understand that Joe Biden is old,” author Franklin Foer said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I’m not a gerontologist, and I can’t predict how the next couple years will age Joe Biden.”
Asked about the prospect of the president dropping out of the race, he said, “It would be a surprise to me, but it wouldn’t be a total surprise to me.”
Foer went on to say religious considerations might influence the 80-year-old pol’s decision making.
“When he talks about his life, he uses this word ‘fate’ constantly. Joe Biden is a very religious guy, and fate is a word loaded with religious meaning,” said the journalist, whose bio about Biden’s first two years in office comes out this week.
“He always talks about, he can’t say where fate goes,” Foer added. “And so I always, when I hear that, to me it’s the ellipses in the sentence when he’s talking about his own future that I account for in thinking about his calculus.”
After months of questions about whether he’d run for a second term, Biden announced his reelection campaign in April, though speculation about his plans persists.
Polls show him neck-and-neck with former President Donald Trump, who’s far ahead of his rivals in the contest for the GOP nomination in spite of ongoing criminal cases against him.