At a press briefing on Thursday, President Biden was asked about referring to himself as a bridge candidate and still running in 2024.
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00:00If I may, Mr. President, on the question of a bridge candidacy in 2020, you referred to
00:05yourself as being a bridge candidate for a younger, fresher generation of Democratic
00:11leaders.
00:12And I wanted to know what changed.
00:14What changed was the gravity of the situation I inherited in terms of the economy, our foreign
00:24policy and domestic division.
00:28And I think I won't put words in anybody's mouth.
00:33Most presidential historians give me credit for having accomplished more than most any
00:40president since Johnson and maybe before that to get major pieces of legislation passed.
00:45And what I realized was my long time in the Senate had equipped me to have the wisdom
00:54of how to deal with the Congress, to get things done.
00:57We got more major legislation passed that no one thought would happen.
01:02And I want to finish it, to get that finished.
01:06If tomorrow, if we had a circumstance where there was a lineup and I didn't had an inherited
01:14what I did and we just moved things along, anyway, it's going to change.
01:20Next question.