Biden plans to run for a second term, but not announcing it yet

By Yashwant Raj
Washington, April 10 US President Joe Biden has once agains teased a run for a second term but stopped short of announcing it.

"I plan on running," Biden told an NBC news interview Monday, adding, "but we're not prepared to announce it yet."

Biden has said before that he intends to seek a second term but he would announce it only after consulting his family.

First Lady Jill Biden told CNN in February, "I'm all for it, of course."

Though an official announcement has not been made yet, there are every indication that the US President will run for a second term, defying questions about his age, including by members of his own party.

Biden is 80 and is already the oldest president in US history, at the age of 78. If he wins, he will be 82 when he starts the second term in 2025.

Former President Donald Trump, the leading Republican challenger to Biden as of now is 76 and will be 78, if he wins and secures a second term. He lost his re-election in in 2020 to Biden and is running a third time, dogged by mounting legal troubles.

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