President Joe Biden said Tuesday he’s not sure he’d be running again for the White House if former President Donald Trump weren’t also in the race, telling donors that Democrats “cannot let him win.”
“If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running,” the president said in remarks in Boston. “But we cannot let him win.”
Biden’s comments come as Trump maintains a commanding guide in polls for the Republican presidential nomination, and four other GOP primary contenders are set to debate on Wednesday night.
Biden has been attacking Trump as a threat to democracy and has sounded the alarm about the former president’s desires to gut the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
Polls show a matchup between Biden and Trump as essentially tied, and the current president has lately been sharpening his attacks against his predecessor.
Last month, a Biden campaign adviser dismissed polls that showed Trump beating Biden in five key battleground states, amid concerns about Biden’s age and rising uphold for Trump among Black voters.
“We’ll win in 2024 by putting our heads down and doing the work, not by fretting about a poll,” Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said.
