Biden’s a lot older than previous one-term … or even two-term presidents. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images In late March, President Joe Biden said he “expects” to run for a second term in 2024. It was pretty much taken as a reelection announcement by the punditocracy at the time, though it reminded me of Ted Kennedy’s 1979 incantation that he “expected” Jimmy Carter to run for renomination and “expected” to support him .
But it’s worth mentioning that if Biden does decide to become a one-term president, he’ll make history. Only three presidents before him have chosen not to run for reelection after a full single term: James K. Polk, James Buchanan, and Rutherford B. Hayes. Polk and Hayes ran for their first terms on a no-second-term pledge, which they kept. Buchanan announced a one-term-only policy in his Inaugural Address. Biden is not under any such self-imposed constraint.
Among the “accidental presidents” who ascended to the chief magistrate’s post on the death of a predecessor, most tried for a full term and subsequently a second term. John Tyler and Andrew Johnson were quickly despised by the party that had placed them on the national ticket, and were also rejected by the opposing party. Millard Fillmore pursued and lost the Whig nomination in 1852. Gerald Ford won his party’s nomination in 1976 but lost the general election.
The only president who won a full term without a self-imposed term limit and then declined to run for reelection then or later was Calvin Coolidge. But Coolidge privately had decided the 10 years he would have served with a full second term was excessive. So if Biden does not stand for reelection, in a very real sense he will stand alone.
He likely won't be capable of doing a 2nd term. Not even sure how he is gonna pull this term off
Trollllllling. nymag has really gotten desperate for 👀
How many times will he trip and fall?
He is way too old...
Bro he’ll probably be dead
He’s been in office 3 months, give it a rest.
Wtf is this?
I'm sure this is just the kind of history he's aiming for , right?
He hasn’t even been in office 100 days and already with this bullshit , sheesh you guys miss the former guy that much that you’re running with these kind of stories. Y’all should be ashamed of yourselves.
If he didn’t I wouldn’t be mad .. I think he wanted to run so T could walk .... off 😩
..Nobody will notice whether he will decide to go to the kitchen or to the living room .
Why should he walk away?
He already said he will run again.
......what? Are you trying to start rumours?
What in the world is this for, now? He’s not 100 days in and this? Really, truly, F you
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