President Biden on Tuesday stated he is ”undecided” he could be working for reelection if former President Donald Trump weren’t additionally working.
The presumptive Democratic nominee for president made the feedback throughout a fundraiser in Boston.
”If Trump wasn’t working, I am undecided I would be working,” the president stated. ”However we can’t let him win.”
No tv cameras or microphones had been allowed contained in the occasion, however reporters touring with the president had been capable of report on his feedback.
A Biden marketing campaign official informed CBS Information that the president’s advisors considered his assertion as a continuation of the identical issues they have been highlighting in current weeks — that the stakes of the election are very actual; that the election is larger than any particular person candidate; and that democracy itself is at stake.
Through the 2020 presidential marketing campaign, Mr. Biden referred to as himself a ”transitional” candidate, though he by no means stated he would serve only one time period.
Now, nonetheless, Trump is the frontrunner within the race for the GOP nomination — by a rustic mile. A November CBS Information/YouGov ballot confirmed 61% of possible GOP major voters would select Trump.
However it’s not clear if Mr. Biden’s logic holds. Some nationwide polls present Trump edging out the present president, though the election is sort of a yr away. The November CBS Information ballot confirmed Trump beating Mr. Biden by three factors. It additionally revealed that voters suppose they might be higher off financially underneath Trump.
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