In an interview set to air Wednesday, President Biden told BET’s Ed Gordon he would consider dropping out of the 2024 race if he had “some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem,” the New York Times reports.
It’s not clear if this is anything like “opening the door” to stepping aside, but the Times notes that the answer “is the latest in a series of shifting explanations by the president about what might cause him to reconsider. In an interview with ABC News this month, Biden said he would drop out only if the ‘Lord almighty’ told him to. At a news conference in Washington several days later, he said he would stay in the race unless aides came to him with proof that he could never win.”