Wall Street Journal editorial calls for Biden to not seek second term in 2024

A Wall Street Journal editorial is calling on President Joe Biden to not run for re-election in 2024, saying, among other things, that he is too old. 

"The public understands what Mr. Biden apparently won't admit: that electing an octogenarian in obvious decline for another four years could be an historic mistake," the Journal stated in an editorial published Friday evening.  

President Biden is expected to announce his re-election campaign next week.

The editorial board wrote that Biden's health is in obvious decline: "But his decline is clear to anyone who isn't willfully blind," they stated. 

They added that a full second term isn't guaranteed and Vice President Kamala Harris would not make a good president if something happened to Biden.

"Different people age at different rates, but the risk of an accelerated decline for Mr. Biden is considerable. The chance that he could serve a full second term is hardly assured," they wrote.

"But the best reason not to run is for the patriotic good of the country. The world is growing more dangerous by the week, and the U.S. faces more formidable adversaries than any time since the height of the Cold War. It will take more than a figurehead President to confront and counter them."

"At this moment of great economic and strategic challenge," the editorial concluded, "the United States needs a better presidential choice in 2024 than a redo of Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump."

Charlotte Hazard is a reporter at Just the News. Follow her on Twitter.