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Biden told Al Sharpton he will seek 2024 re-election: report
President Biden told Rev. Al Sharpton that he will run for re-election in 2024 during a visit to the White House that was reportedly recounted by the clergyman to his staffers.
Sharpton shared the revelation with employees of his National Action Network after meeting with the commander-in-chief earlier this month, NBC News reported on Monday.
Im going to do it again, Biden told Sharpton as they posed for a photograph in the Roosevelt Room, a National Action Network official recounted Sharpton saying.
Biden, 79, met with leaders of civil rights organizations on Sept. 2, including Sharpton, the White House said in a readout from that meeting.
The group discussed their shared commitment to advancing legislation protecting voting rights and to combating hate-fueled violence, the readout said.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment by The Post.
Biden has not announced officially whether he would seek a second term, and has brushed off questions that seek to get him to tip his hand.
Look, my intention, as I said to begin with, is that I would run again. But its just an intention. But is it a firm decision that I run again? That remains to be seen, Biden said during an interview last month on CBS News 60 Minutes.
Its much too early to make that kind of decision. Im a great respecter of fate. And so, what Im doing is Im doing my job. Im gonna do that job, he said. And within the timeframe that makes sense after this next election cycle here, going into next year, make a judgment on what to do.
That interview aired two weeks after Biden hosted Sharpton in the White House.
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Biden told Al Sharpton he will seek 2024 re-election: report
Biden told Rev. Al Sharpton he will run for a second term in 2024 …
President Biden reportedly told Rev. Al Sharpton at a White House event early last month that he planned to run for a second term in 2024.
The interaction is said to have happened between the two on September 2, when Biden met with leaders from legacy Black civil rights organizations, including Sharpton.
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An official from Sharptons National Action Network who spoke to NBC News recounted Biden as telling Sharpton: "Im going to do it again Im going."
Fox News has reached out to the White House and the National Action Network for comment but did not hear back before publication.
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Biden, so far, has refused to state publicly whether he intends to run for a second term. In an interview with CBS "60 Minutes" which aired Sunday, September 18, Biden said it was "much too early" to make any decision on launching a re-election bid.
"Look, my intention, as I said, that began with is that I would run again. But its just an intention. But is it a firm decision that I run again? That remains to be seen."
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The 79-year-old Biden has said numerous times that if he remains healthy, he intends to run for re-election.
Fox News Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
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Al Sharpton Warns Democrats Ahead of Midterms: Theyre Not Connecting …
MSNBCs Rev. Al Sharpton has warned Democrats that theyre not connecting with minority voters ahead of the midterm elections.
Sharpton appeared on MSNBCs Morning Joe Monday and warned that it could spell doom for the Democrats in November.
Host Joe Scarborough said: The question is are Democrats doing what it makes to keep those who have loyally voted Republican, are Democratic voting Democratic because right now, you have people of color breaking away from the Democratic Party and you have white college-educated suburban voters breaking away from Republicans, so its creating a real flux.
Sharpton said: The Democratic Party and President Biden does have some things they could be using that theyve done that has benefited clearly black and Latinos, but its not connecting.
I spent the last two or three days in Washington speaking to the Congressional Black Caucus and the concern we have is how we are connecting the base to the message.
So youre seeing this as the polls indicate, Latinos and Black men go the other way because theyre not getting their message to the ground in the way they should.
And I think that that is the challenge they have in these last four or five weeks.
Clearly, the thing that is making this competitive is the Supreme Court decision on womens right to choose and the fact that Donald Trump wont leave the stage.
Those are the only things that are really helping the Democrats stay in the game.
They must connect the message to those that would be energized.
At this point, that has not happened.
I think coming out of the caucus, we can, they are trying to make that connection, he said.
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Looking at the national polling, it seems possible that Democrats might not be able to count on nearly as much support from Black voters as they have in previous elections.
An average of the final five live interview polls of the 2020 election showed Biden with an 84% to 9% lead over then-President Donald Trump among Black voters a big 75-point advantage.
But this year, an average of the last five live interview polls I could find gives Democrats a 74% to 12% advantage among Black voters a 62-point edge on the generic congressional ballot, which usually asks respondents some form of the following question: If the elections for Congress were held today, would you vote for the Democratic or Republican party?
This represents a larger swing toward Republicans by Black voters than the swing we have seen among all voters from the 2020 baseline.
Notably, the final five live interview polls I could get from the 2018 midterms showed Democrats with an 85% to 9% lead on the generic ballot with Black voters. Again, what were seeing this year is clearly different.
This shift among Black voters isnt something new. Back in April, I pointed out that Democrats had a 73% to 11% advantage among this demographic on the generic ballot.
To me, this consistency indicates that it isnt statistical noise were witnessing. Its something more concrete than that.
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House majority leader: Trump will be treated like any regular citizen with subpoena – Washington Examiner
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) says the subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 committee for former President Donald Trump to testify will be treated just as any other subpoena.
During an interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC's PoliticsNation on Sunday, Hoyer said that the House would pursue legal action against Trump should he defy the subpoena.
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"Well, it's very difficult because time is short, but we're going to treat him just as we would any other citizen that refuses to testify: Go to court and ask that that individual be held in contempt and ordered to testify," Hoyer said. "A former president is not above the law any more than the president is above the law."
When pressed further on if House Democrats would go to court over the subpoena, Hoyer deferred to the Jan. 6 committee for what potential action would look like.
"From my standpoint, I haven't talked to the committee about it. I don't want to speak for the committee. They obviously don't want to make a judgment until they know for sure what actions former President Trump is going to take, but yes, I think that is an action which, from my standpoint, ought to be taken," Hoyer said.
The former president was subpoenaed by the committee in a unanimous vote of the nine members Thursday, with Vice Chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) saying, "We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion."
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Trump denounced last week's Jan. 6 committee hearing in a lengthy statement Friday, stating the committee was made up of "highly partisan political Hacks and Thugs," and called the investigation a Charade and Witch Hunt. In the 14-page statement, Trump did not say whether he plans to comply with the subpoena.