Biden reportedly planning 2024 campaign announcement for next week
President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to formally announce his long-expected bid for reelection sometime next week — possibly on Tuesday, which marks four years to the day since he announced his 2020 campaign.
The Washington Post broke news of the timing on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the ongoing deliberations who said the president will likely announce his plans to run in a video addressing his supporters, but the sources hedged that it might be delayed.
The White House has been fielding questions for months about whether and when Biden would disclose his 2024 plans, but according to the Associated Press the White House had concluded there was little reason for urgency given the absence of any challenge to Biden’s nomination by a serious Democratic candidate.
Biden reportedly felt the pressure to announce was further eased by divisions within the Republican Party — with four GOP hopefuls having formally disclosed their plans to run and three more who are expected to soon get in the race — and also by Democrats’ better-than-anticipated showing in the 2022 midterm elections.
