No, Joe Biden’s Not Dropping Out.

Probably time to stop speculating about it.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readFeb 24, 2024
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It feels as though President Joe Biden isn’t really discussed these days without the conversation or narrative shifting to his age. Understandably so if we’re being honest, considering how we’re about to go into one of the most pivotal elections of our era with a man over 80 who hasn’t exactly used his tenure as President to give anyone a reason to be excited.

It never really felt as though this was the plan, did it?

I genuinely don’t think that this is what the Democratic Party had in mind when they rallied, and were more than willing to coalesce around Biden if it meant stopping Bernie Sanders. Surely, when Obama picked up the phone and encouraged other candidates to drop out and endorse Biden, he didn’t expect a scenario where Biden would be running again? Kamala Harris was supposed to be the sure thing eventually, right?

Except, here we are, with Harris nor Buttigieg ever gaining traction and Biden once again running again because the party found no other alternative. Naturally though, of course, there’s still some who chose to speculate about the hypotheticals of who would take over if he were to drop out of the race.

John L. Dorman with Business Insider writes:

“What does this all…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx