Joe Biden stated in an interview with ABC News that the United States will not hand over modern fighter jets to Ukraine for the time being, and the wife of the American president hinted in another interview that the 82-year-old Biden will run again in the 2024 elections next year .
Asked by the host if that meant never, Biden said that it is impossible to know exactly what the Ukrainian defense will need in the future, but "there is no basis on which to justify F-16s right now to assure".
"I rule that out for now"
Biden said.
In his speech, the president emphasized that at the current stage of the war, the Ukrainian army does not need F-16 fighter jets, but he also noted that it is impossible to know what Ukraine will need in the future.
The American First Lady made a clear reference to her husband Joe Biden's re-run in the 2024 presidential election in an interview on Friday. In an interview with the AP news agency at the last stop of her five-day trip to Africa, Jill Biden stated that there is not much more left than figuring out where and when the president will officially announce his resumption. Regarding her husband's intention, she said, "how many more times do I have to say it so that they will believe it", then, referring to Joe Biden, she added that
"he hasn't finished what he started and that's what counts".
In an interview with ABC News on Friday, the president also linked to his wife's words and stated that he is serious about what he says, but there are still tasks ahead of him before he embarks on a full-scale campaign. Since last autumn, the president has repeated several times that he intends to run for a second presidential term in the election in 2024, but he has not yet officially announced this. At the same time, his presidential advisers hinted that
the official announcement may be in April,
similarly to the Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, who also officially indicated in April of the year before the presidential election that he would run for re-election.
People who are skeptical of the president's candidacy usually bring up Joe Biden's age, because he will be 82 years old at the time of next year's election, and if he is elected for another term, he will be over 86 years old at the end of it.
The race for the position of presidential candidate has begun within the Republican Party, although there is still a year to go before the primaries begin. Donald Trump last November, Nikki Haley, former US ambassador to the United Nations and governor of South Carolina, in the first half of February, while entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy officially announced his candidacy this week. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former Secretary of State and former CIA Director Mike Pompeo, and former Vice President Mike Pence are among the possible candidates.
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