A biographer of President Joe Biden said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” with Chuck Todd that it “wouldn’t be a total shock” if the president drops out of the 2024 race by the end of 2023.
Franklin Foer, whose book “The Last Politician” is about Biden’s first two years in office, will be released on the 5th. In the interview he said regarding how much of a surprise an exit would be that, “I would say it would, it would be a surprise to me. But it wouldn’t be a total surprise.”
“When he talks about his life, he uses this word, fate, constantly,” Foer said. “Joe Biden is a very religious guy, and fate is a word loaded with religious meaning. And he always talks about, ‘He can’t say where fate goes.’ 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.”
80-year-old Biden announced his reelection campaign earlier this year and has not signaled that he was considering dropping out of the race. Despite facing no serious opposition in a non-existent primary, his age has become a political concern for critics and supporters.
“It doesn’t take Bob Woodward to understand that Joe Biden is old, and I’m not a gerontologist and I can’t predict how the next couple of years will age Joe Biden,” Foer said. “I think what my book does is it shows that he is somebody who…is buried in details. He’s somebody who is very technocratic, really obsessed with the intricacies of policy. He’s a very activist president in that he micromanages a lot of the dealings in the White House”
