Ron Klain says he believes Biden will run in 2024 — but admits anything could happen before then and they don’t want to announce now that federal election law is in effect
- White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said Thursday that President Joe Biden is running for re-election — he can’t articulate it that way just yet.
- Klain was asked about Biden’s political future after the president gave himself some wiggle room during an interview Sunday on 60 Minutes.
- “That’s kind of a wording he should give to not trigger federal election law and require us to file a bunch of forms,” Klein said at the Atlantic Festival.
- Klein also predicted that the Democrats would retain control of the House and Senate after the November midterm elections.
- He primarily cited the parties’ divergent views on abortion rights and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s bill to ban abortion nationwide at 15 weeks.
- “Enact. Lindsey Graham came out with legislation not only to ban abortion, by the way, but to impose a criminal penalty of up to five years on doctors,” Klein warned.
White House chief of staff Ron Klain said Thursday that President Joe Biden is running for re-election — he just can’t put it that way yet.
“Well, he said he intends to run and that’s kind of a wording he has to file to not enforce federal election law and ask us to file a bunch of forms,” Klein said at the Atlantic Festival in Washington. . This is certainly his intention. Obviously something could happen.
Klain was asked about Biden’s political future after the president gave himself some wiggle room during an interview Sunday on 60 Minutes.
In his session with Scott Bailey, Biden also referred to FEC regulations, but added, “It’s too early to make that kind of decision.”
“He also said he believes in destiny,” Klein continued. “You know, he’s seen all kinds of things in his life, and he’s not going to say where he’ll be in December today.”
The White House chief of staff added, “He respects the fact that a lot of things can happen, but he intends to run.” “And I think he will.”
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said Thursday that President Joe Biden is running for re-election — he can’t articulate it that way just yet.
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain (R) spoke with Atlantic’s Franklin Foer (L) at the Atlantic Festival Thursday
During his interview with 60 Minutes, President Joe Biden — which was filmed at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday — said it was ‘too early’ to make a decision about 2024.
Klein also said he believed the Democrats would retain their majority in Congress by November.
“I think the Democrats will take the House of Representatives, and I think the Democrats will take the Senate,” Klein said.
Franklin Foer of the Atlantic Klein asked how a Republican majority in the House—which is more likely—or the Senate could make the chief of staff’s life “more hell.”
“The choice couldn’t be clearer,” Klein said, warning of the Republican Party’s “extreme agenda.”
He referred primarily to the parties’ divergent views on abortion rights.
“End. Lindsey Graham came out with legislation not only to ban abortion, by the way, but to impose a criminal penalty of up to five years on doctors who provide reproductive services to women,” Klein said.
He told the audience, “I just want you to think about what kind of country this would be if doctors walked around knowing they could go to prison for five years for providing necessary services to their patients.”
Who will enter this profession? Who will provide these types of services? Who is willing to risk imprisonment? Surely there will be some brave doctors. I don’t doubt it. But we will see a mass exodus from the medical profession,” Klein continued.
Doctors also warned that because the ban came into effect at week 15, women would have to do a transvaginal ultrasound to determine the age of the fetus.
“And what Senator Graham has said is that if the Republicans win the midterms, he’s going to knock the bill to the ground and they’re going to fight for it and we’re going to see doctors at risk of these kinds of prison sentences,” Klein said.
