President Biden has said he's not sure he'd run for president if Donald Trump wasn't running too he made the comments at a campaign funding event near Boston saying his predecessor posed a threat to democracy his remarks come as some opinion polls suggest he's trailing behind Mr Trump in next year's presidential race the 2024 primary season will kick off next month and there's another Republican debate later
Today our North America correspondent Peter Bose sent us this update that surprised quite a lot of people here I think there'll be strategists on both sides Republicans and and Democrats trying to figure out what is going through Joe Biden's mind it isn't certain at this stage that Donald Trump is going to be the Republican candidate he is significantly ahead of the other contenders for that nomination but as we all know Donald Trump is facing huge
Legal issues with criminal trials coming up next year and there is the possibility that one of the other contenders Nikki Haley the former un representative under Donald Trump is doing quite well some people are suggesting that perhaps she could be the Republican candidate so are we seeing Joe Biden here perhaps considering that if Donald Trump isn't the candidate he won't be the candidate either and stepping aside for another Democrat I
Think these are questions we probably can't answer at the moment but it's thrown the the cut amongst the pigeons to use that phrase in terms of the race at this stage
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