Matthew Yglesias, Columnist

Biden 2024? America Needs to Know Now

If the president is running for re-election — or if he isn’t — he needs to make the announcement soon.

June 26, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC

Matthew Yglesias is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A co-founder of and former columnist for Vox, he writes the Slow Boring blog and newsletter. He is author of “One Billion Americans.”

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If Joe Biden wants to run for re-election, he should say so clearly and soon — and then start acting like it. Alternatively, if the president is not sure he wants to run again, he should take that as a strong sign that he shouldn’t — and then make that announcement soon, too.

The point, you may have noticed, is that whatever he does, he needs to do it soon.