President Joe Bidentried to use humor to deflect a question about his intentions for the presidency should he be reelected.
“President Biden, will you be serving your full four-year term or handing over power to Vice President Harris?” a reporter asked Biden Wednesday in Philadelphia.
“Are you OK? Are you all right? You’re not hurt, are you?” Biden replied. “I said, are you OK? Did you fall on your head or something?”
The exchange occurred from a distance after Biden had arrived in Philadelphia for a black outreach event.
Biden, the country’s oldest president, will be 82 for his second inauguration next January if he wins the election this November.
During his 2020 bid, Biden campaigned to be a “bridge” to the next generation of Democratic leaders, but decided against standing aside this electoral cycle.
Republicans, including former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), have underscored the possibility of Vice President Kamala Harris becoming president should Biden’s second term end early.
“There’s going to be a female president of the United States,” Haley told Fox News in February. “It will either be me or it will be Kamala Harris. And if Donald Trump is the nominee — mark my words — we will see a President Kamala Harris.”
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Biden’s average favorability-unfavorability rating is net negative 13 percentage points, according to RealClearPolitics. Harris’s is net negative 14 points.
