As President Joe Biden prepares to hit the campaign trail and host his first political rally since announcing his reelection bid, the president is predicting the 2024 cycle could be a tumultuous road.
“What kind of campaign do you think you’re going to have?” a reporter asked Biden on Saturday. “Is it going to be a nasty campaign?”
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“Well, it depends on who the nominee is,” Biden answered with a laugh.
The tongue-in-cheek remark was likely a reference to former President Donald Trump, who has emerged as the early front-runner in the GOP primary — setting the stage for a rematch between himself and Biden next year. Trump has already turned to his former strategy of attacking his political opponents through harsh rhetoric and personal insults, extending to both Biden and his primary challengers.
Trump attacked Biden in remarks earlier this week, vowing to “go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family” if he is reelected. The comments came just hours after Trump was arraigned on 37 charges related to his mishandling of classified documents, marking his second criminal indictment this year.
Biden has so far stayed silent on the indictment news, hoping instead to tout his administration’s accomplishments as a contrast to the former president’s current predicament. In fact, Biden even went so far as to ensure his comments were not taken out of context while answering reporter’s questions earlier this week.
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“I turned all my notes in,” Biden said, referring to a meeting he had with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “But that’s not a reference to the former president.”
Polling continues to indicate a tight race between Biden and Trump in a hypothetical matchup, with the two tied at 41% among registered voters, according to a recent survey by YouGov. A similar poll by YouGov sampling all U.S. adults regardless of voter status had Trump leading by one point.
