In late 2019, Politico asked a high-ranking Biden aide about the candidate’s age. “If Biden is elected,” the anonymous adviser said, “he’s going to be 82 years old in four years, and he won’t be running for re-election.”
That was then. Though Joe Biden never did forswear a second term, thus avoiding Teddy Roosevelt’s 1904 mistake, which made him an instant lame duck, it was widely assumed at the start of this term that he would be a “transitional” president. No longer. Today, all of the signs are pointing toward another run.
