Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 2.

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We got a big story we need to talk about in politics.

The President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden, may not run for reelection.

People around him are starting to get nervous about it.

This is the Politico writing and in their writing of it, it is Christopher Catalago, Jonathan LeMire, others. This is it.

Joe Biden's closest advisors have spent months preparing for him to formally announce his re-election campaign.

But with the president, still not ready to make the plunge, a sense of doubt is creeping into conversations about 2024.

What if he decides not to?

Biden's past decisions around seeking the presidency have been protracted, painstaking affairs.

This time, he has slipped past his most ambitious timetable as previously outlined by advisors to launch in February.

Now they're coalescing around April.

But even the target is less than definitive.

People in the president's orbit say there is no hard deadline or formal process in place for arriving at a launch date decision.

According to four people familiar with the president's thinking, a final call has been pushed aside as real-world events intervene.

His cloak and dagger trip to Kiev over the holiday weekend took meticulous planning and the positive reaction to it was seen internally as providing

him with more of a runway to turn back to domestic politics. While the belief among nearly

everyone in Biden's orbit is that he'll ultimately give the all clear, his indecision has resulted

in an awkward deep freeze across the party in which some potential presidential aspirants and

scores of major donors are

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