President Joe Biden speaks Wednesday during a meeting with his task force on supply chain issues.
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President Joe Biden speaks Wednesday during a meeting with his task force on supply chain issues.
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President Biden on Wednesday said he plans to run for president again in 2024 if his health remains good.
In an interview with ABC’s “World News Tonight” host David Muir, Biden discussed his future political plans and what he plans to do to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, especially for omicron variant fuels. Another spike in the case of COVID-19.
Biden said that as long as his health remains intact – the president celebrated his 79th birthday last month and is the oldest person to take office – he will run for re-election in 2024.
Asked if a possible rematch with his dead opponent in 2020, Trump, would influence his decision, Biden said with a smile: “Now you’re trying to let tempt me.”
“Sure. Why don’t I run for Donald Trump for the candidate? That would increase the prospect of running,” he said.
The ABC interview comes as COVID-19 cases are on the rise again, driven largely by omicron variant of the virus.
Biden on Tuesday outline his plan in response to the growing threat, including more aid to hospitals and the federal government buying half a billion home tests to give to households that want them, with shipments starting in January.
Biden acknowledged to the ABC that “there’s been “nothing good enough” in the nation’s response to virus testing, but praised his administration’s efforts to get as many Americans as possible to be fully immunized. enough and strengthen against COVID-19.
“Last Christmas we were in a situation where we had significantly less vaccinations – people were vaccinated, emergency rooms were full,” he said. “You’ve had serious prophylaxis in hospitals that cause great difficulty. We’re in a situation where we now have 200 million people fully vaccinated. Two hundred million people are fully vaccinated. And we still have a lot of people. more so people who’ve had one shot – at least one shot. And they also get these enhanced photos.”
Biden says he doesn’t see long queues for testing and empty shelves for home testing as failures, but he does admit some regrets about not ordering faster distribution of home tests. .
“You could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months, a month ago.” he told ABC.
He said he wished he had “thought about ordering” 500 million tests for distribution two months ago.
The White House has faced harsh criticism for refusing to do so.
In a heated exchange with an NPR reporter earlier this month, when asked why the US didn’t follow the lead of other developed nations and make testing free and easy, Press Secretary White House press secretary Jen Psaki wittily asked: “Should we send one out to every American?”
That’s basically what new Biden strategy will do.
