I don't think you're going to have a reprise of 1980 where Ted Kennedy primary is a sitting president and Jimmy Carter. I agree with all the reasons Flavia said. It's very hard to unseat an incumbent president. For Donald Trump, it took a pandemic and race riots and also himself getting infected with the virus to kind of stamp out his chance at a second term. So that's just something to think about as Joe Biden launches his reelection effort here with a lot of doubt around him.
It’s hard to believe, but the 2024 presidential election is already off and running, and there’s grumbling in both parties. Some Republicans want to put Donald Trump behind them, and some Democrats worry 80-year-old Joe Biden might not be up to the long slog of a presidential campaign.
Bloomberg’s managing editor for US government Flavia Krause-Jackson, national political correspondent Joshua Green, and White House correspondent Jordan Fabian join this episode to tell us what to pay attention to–and what’s just noise.
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