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After President Joe Biden announced his bid for reelection last April, a majority of Democratic leaders supported his candidacy, which was not surprising for a sitting president.
But Biden has one of the most unusual resumes of any president in U.S. history: a fixture in Washington for more than 50 years as a Delaware senator, vice president and now president, and if re-elected to a second term this fall, he will be 82 when he takes office in January 2025 and 86 at the end of his second term.
Biden’s age has been a concern among many voters, including those who tend to support him over former President Donald Trump, and was exacerbated by the release of special counsel Robert Hur’s report into Biden’s handling of classified documents, which did not recommend indictments but raised questions about the president’s insight and memory.
All the while, Biden has defended his reelection, argued that his age is an advantage, refuted the special counsel report, cited accomplishments such as a bipartisan infrastructure bill and inflation control legislation, and touted the nation’s low unemployment rate, making a clear case for why he should be re-elected.
What does this all mean? It’s unlikely that Biden will drop out of the race, especially since he’s dominated the Democratic presidential primaries and is committed to a rematch with Trump. But speculation continues to swirl about whether Biden will drop out.
If Biden were to withdraw for any reason after winning a supermajority of the 3,936 delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination, a new candidate would have to be selected at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this August, but with the primaries already over, that would be a messy process.
Virtually every major Democratic governor and senator supports the president’s reelection and has long since dismissed the idea of replacing him in this year’s election.
But if such a scenario were to occur, who would succeed Biden?