announcement to try to seek a second term, no polls indicate americans have major misgive givings about that prospect. polls indicate president biden s age is a reason, the polls show different misgivings? a.bawl line the electorate does naught seam excited about the early prospect. inen 2024, that s where we begin, jackie starts us off live on the north lawn. good evening to you, bret. there are questions about whether this announcement is being slapped together. reports have described it as a last-minute scramble to build a website, fund raise and finalize campaign staffing decisions and talk of a major event rolling out this announcement has shifted to a ramping up effort. by all indications it s still set to begin tomorrow. are you red to run again, mr? president bide non dropping any hints on the eve of his expected reelection bid, reportedly to come via social media. par for the course for this white house under fire for side stepping traditional interviews and ne
reportedly to come via social media. par for the course for this white house under fire for side stepping traditional interviews and news conferences in favor of sit-downs with actors and internet influencers, which means little chance for questions like this: 86 at the end of your term, is your age part of your own calculation into whether to run again? no. but it s legitimate for people to raise issues about my age. it s totally legitimate to do that. the new york times editorial writes mr. biden has given voters very few chances to watch him and his refusal to engage with the public raises questions about his age and health a new nbc poll shows 70% of americans don t want bide toon run again, including more than half of dems and more than half on the ticket list biden s age as a factor. progressive democrats are butting out signals to young
on. people can say the man is very old indeed and perhaps even he could be said to be old for his age. they is the most taxing job imaginable. people don t think that s what he s up to it and with good reason. which is not to psi that donald trump is any spring chicken. it was amusing to watch him talking about age isn t really that important i ve seen guys older because he s obviously no spring chicken either so he doesn t want that to become the issue on his part either. speaking of the republican presidential nomination you have the former president leading exponentially every poll, sometimes 20 pointes, sometimes even 30 pointes. the rcp average has him p 52.4 to 23.4 of the recent polls. he s spending a lot of time, britt, on florida governor de santis, both in pac adds and in talking about him. yeah, a lot more time on that teen is on attacking democrats. in the recent interview you may recall he was praising gavin newsom which who is not very
numbers of people i think is a very important presidential election. bot apparently to field candidates, that people don t want even to run let alone have become president. so this is quite something. i don t think i ve ever seen anything quite like it before. if yo look t the nbc poll, do you think joe biden should run for president, upside down, 70-26. then you had the new york times this weekend saying biden should take voters concerns about age seriously, in terms of fitness for office, being out of touch for the moment are legitimate. his refusal to ingaining with the public regularly raises questions. this is not the will street journalism. it is not something from right. they is the new york times. you re right. exactly right, bret. that emphasizes the fact that biden s age and his, and his failings, uh, owing a lot to them, obviously a product of it. you see he s had difficulty walking, he d walk stilly, stumbles on staircases and so
fun of his age, being humble self-depreciating about the age issue. biden s even older than reagan and then you start to hear that wait a second, who s he running against? it s donald trump and how old is trump the. so then becomes, again, the glue that holds the democrats together behind biden at this point, the ease mean has no challenger in the party, is because of donald trump. bret: he s got robert kennedy junior and mary ann williamson but that poll earlier guy from nbcish do you think joe biden should run for president, 70-26? that a serious head wind. seven out of ten voters do not want this man to run again. and yet probably tomorrow we re going to find out that is exactly what he s doing. the same poll found that he s trailing a generic republican by six points. it s way early and there s no such thing as a generic republican. he ll be up up against an actual republican and the identity of that republican could matter in