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You recently launched your reelection campaign. You've said questions about your age are legitimate, and your response is always, just watch me.
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But the country is watching. And recent polling shows that 70% of Americans including a majority of Democrats, believe you shouldn't run again.
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What do you say to them? What do you say to those Americans who are watching and aren't convinced?
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I may not be the only one, but I know him well, and I know the danger he presents to our democracy, and we've been down this road before.
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And with regard to age and polling data, I noticed the polling data I keep hearing about is that I'm between 42% and 46% favorable rating, et cetera.
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But everybody running for reelection in this time has been in the same position, there's nothing new about that. You're making it sound like "Biden's. Really? Underwater!"⁽¹⁾ and no 1.
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No 2, when the same polling data asks whether they think what kind of job I've done, it gets overwhelmingly positive results, from 58% thinking everything from the chips act and all the things we've done.
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We've created like I said we've created 12 million new jobs, we created 800 000 manufacturing jobs.
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We have economic growth moving, we're in a situation where the climate we've invested more money and more help in dealing with the climate crisis in any nation in the world.
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And so things are moving, and the reason I'm running again is a job to finish the other thing, is that look you know think about what I inherited when I got elected.
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I inherited a nation an overwhelming debt at the time, no 1 in the hole for the four years that he was president.
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I inherited a nation that had a serious loss of credibility around the world as "America first!"
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And you know the first meeting I attended the G7 I said "America's back!" and one of the world leaders looked and said for "How long?"
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There's a great concern about the United States eing able to lead the Free World, and we're doing that again.
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And those same polls you look at, you take a look at the polls are saying whether I pull together NATO and the European Union as well as Asian partners I think we have, but there's more to do.
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And with regard to age, I can't even say I guess how old I am, I can't even say the number, I've done registered with me.
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And but the only thing I can say is that one of the things that people are going to find out, how they're going to see a race, and they're going to judge whether or not I have or don't have it.
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I respect them taking a hard look at it, I take a hard look at it as well, I took a hard look at it before I decided to run.
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And I feel good, I feel excited about the prospects, and I think we're on the verge of really turning the corner in a way we haven't in a long time.
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I know you're tired of hearing me say we're an inflection point where we really are, what happens in the next two three four years is going to determine what the next three four decades look like.
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And I have never been more optimistic in my life about the possibilities of the United States.
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To be clear though you just said "I know him well." Did Donald Trump's decision to run affect yours? Would you be running if he wasn't?
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Yeah I think I still would be running if he wasn't, I do know him well well, it's not hard to know as you know, you know him well too.
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And the question is whether or not, look, there's just there's more to finish the job, we have an opportunity to put ourselves in a position, where we are economically and politically secure for a long time, we continue to have.
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And now we don't like we hear me saying it, there's still a contest between autocracies and democracies, and we're the leading democracy in the world.
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And it's something I know fair amount about, something I care about. And something that I have found a willingness and awful lot of our allies and friends to follow.
