‘I’m Going to Do It Again’: Biden Told Al Sharpton He Plans to Run Again in 2024: Report
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President Biden told Al Sharpton that he plans to run for a second term during a conversation at the White House last month, according to a new report.
“I’m going to do it again,” Biden told Sharpton while posing for a photo on September 2, an official of Sharpton’s National Action Network told NBC News. “I’m going.”
The official told the outlet that Sharpton told his National Action Network staff about the interaction later that day, after Biden’s meeting with civil rights organizations.
During the meeting, Sharpton noted that he had discussed Biden’s eventual 2020 run with the now-president during an event in January 2019, before Biden had publicly announced his intention to run. Biden spoke to Sharpton at an event commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at the time, hoping to secure an endorsement, according to NBC News.
Biden asked Sharpton for his advice on running at the time. Sharpton told the group last month that he believes he was one of the first to know Biden would run.
When the pair took a photo at last month’s meeting, Biden told Sharpton he was indeed among the first to know about his plans to run in 2020 before adding that he was going to “do it again,” according to the report.
The report comes less than a month after Biden, who is 79 years old, declared on CBS’s 60 Minutes that it was “much too early” to make a decision.
“My intention, as I said to begin with, is that I would run again. But it’s just an intention,” he said. “But is it a firm decision that I run again? That remains to be seen.”
Last month, a Marquette Law School poll found that 72 percent of Americans do not want Biden to run again in 2024, including a slight majority of Democrats (52 percent). The same poll put Biden’s approval rating at 45 percent.
