“I’m going to do it again,” the US president told Reverend Al Sharpton, according to the network
Joe Biden told Reverend Al Sharpton in a private conversation last month that he intends to run for the US presidency again in 2024, NBC has reported.
The remark was made during Biden’s meeting with the leaders of black civil rights groups, which took place at the White House on September 2, an official from Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) told the network.
Sharpton relayed his conversation with Biden to NAN staff as they posed for a photo in the Roosevelt Room in Washington later that day, he claimed.
“I’m going to do it again. I’m going,” Biden reportedly said about the possibility of him seeking a second term, a staffer said, recounting the reverend’s description.
Biden had asked Sharpton, who is an MSNBC host and a Democratic power-broker, for advice before announcing that he was going to contest the presidential election in…
