Biden will publish 'Promise Me, America' memoir after the November midterm elections (apnews.com)

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[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Nope. In 2024, Biden himself confirmed it:

"When I originally ran, you may remember, Ed, I said I was gonna be a transitional candidate, and I thought that I'd be able to move from this, just pass it on to someone else," Biden said. "But I didn't anticipate things getting so, so, so divided."

Biden had referred to himself as a "bridge" during the 2020 campaign.

"Look, I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else," Biden said at the time. "There's an entire generation of leaders you saw stand behind me. They are the future of this country."

[-] diverging@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago

How do you get a one term promise out of any of that? Whether he runs one term or two terms he would still be handing things off to younger politicians. It's almost tautological considering how old he was.

"I don't have plans on one term,” Biden told reporters between campaign stops in Nevada. "I'm not even there yet.”

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

What else could he possibly mean by that, especially when he's discussing in retrospect and openly acknowledging it? Seems awfully obtuse. But here, let me try spelling it out just a bit more, and beyond that I'm done trying:

Your references to 2019 are irrelevant. It was already reported by Politico that four people speaking regularly with VP Biden had privately told the mhe was unlikely to run for reelection in 2024 -- this was likely to assuage concerns of liability for his age when that time came.

There was a particularly famous press conference Q&A of his, July 11, 2024.

The report asks, "in 2020 you referred yourself as being a 'bridge candidate for a younger, fresher generation of Democratic leaders' and I wanted to know what changed"
Biden's response, in acknowledgement stated, "What changed was...[reasons]... and I want to get that finished."

Naturally, if using the tiniest bit of logic, you can surmise two things:

(1) If "bridge" candidate doesn't mean that, then he could've and would've simply said, "I still intend to be a bridge candidate, after two terms, which was always the plan!" -- never did he say this.
(2) He concluded answering the question that he needed more time, implying he wanted his second term in order, "to get that finished."

If you're still not connecting the dots then I don't know what to tell you and I'll just chalk this up to either willful ignorance or rage-bait.

[-] diverging@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago

reported by Politico that four people speaking regularly with VP Biden had privately told the mhe was unlikely to run for reelection in 2024

The Politico article quoted several anonymous people and in it they only shared their personal opinion and not anything that Biden said. So your description of that article is wrong, you are lying.

I'll provide quotes:

“If Biden is elected,” a prominent adviser to the campaign said, “he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be running for reelection.”

Anonymous personal opinion.

“This makes Biden a good transition figure,” the adviser said. “I’d love to have an election this year for the next generation of leaders, but if I have to wait four years [in order to] to get rid of Trump, I’m willing to do it.”

Anonymous personal opinion.

Another top Biden adviser put it this way: “He’s going into this thinking, ‘I want to find a running mate I can turn things over to after four years but if that’s not possible or doesn’t happen then I’ll run for reelection.’ But he’s not going to publicly make a one term pledge.”

Anonymous personal opinion.

But none of these are relevant, because shortly after the campaign responded:

"Lots of chatter out there on this so just want to be crystal clear: this is not a conversation our campaign is having and not something VP Biden is thinking about,” deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield tweeted.

Not anonymous and an official statement from the campaign.

So I repeat myself:

Anonymous people said that they thought he would, and when journalists immediately asked the Biden campaign they denied it. For some reason people take as gospel what anonymous people thought someone else would do.

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