Biden, while defending a presidential reelection bid in his 80s, says he's 'acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom' and knows 'more than the vast majority of people'

President Biden defended his 2024 reelection bid during an interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle.
"I have acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom and know more than the vast majority of people," he said.
Biden, who's now 80, would be 82 at the start of a second presidential term in 2025.

President Joe Biden in an interview that aired on Friday defended his decision to run for reelection in his 80s, remarking that he had "acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom" and had more experience "than anybody that's ever run for the office."

Biden, while speaking with the MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle at the White House, made the case for why he should serve another term after she said that "there's not a Fortune 500 company in the world looking to hire a CEO in his 80s."

Ruhle asked: "Why would a 82-year-old Joe Biden be the right person for the most important job in the world?"

The 80-year-old president quickly articulated why he feels he is best suited to remain in the White House through January 2029, when he would be 86 years old.

"I have acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom and know more than the vast majority of people," he told Ruhle. "And I'm more experienced than anybody that's ever run for the office. And I think I've proven myself to be honorable as well as also effective."

Biden — who represented Delaware in the Senate from 1973 to 2009 before serving as vice president under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017 and then running for president in 2020 — played a role in crafting many of the most consequential pieces of legislation of the last 50 years as he served in the upper chamber.

As the previous chair of both the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he amassed expertise regarding the advancement of federal judicial appointments and developed longstanding relationships with world leaders, which is the sort of experience that he continues to lean on to this day.

However, despite Biden's longevity in government, many Americans — including some Democrats — have expressed a desire to turn to a new generation of political leadership.

But Biden is the heavy favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination next year, and former President Donald Trump, who is 76, remains the current frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination. In the Senate, the president's old stomping grounds, the median age for lawmakers is 65.3, according to the Pew Research Center.

Last year, Insider examined the phenomenon of an American gerontocracy in the "Red, White, and Gray" series, which included an article about how Biden views his presidency as one of progress as he looks to advance his agenda in an increasingly-divided Washington, DC.

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