By Anthony Zurcher
North America correspondent
US President Joe Biden has dropped yet different hint that helium volition question re-election successful 2024.
Mr Biden said connected Monday that helium "plans" connected moving again but added that helium is "not prepared to denote it yet".
The comments came during a casual interrogation with US broadcaster NBC anterior to the yearly White House Easter children's party.
Mr Biden has antecedently said it was his "intention" to tally for different four-year term.
During a property league past November, the president spoke of his tendency to question different word but said helium would sermon it with his household implicit the year-end holidays.
In February, First Lady Jill Biden said that the timing of the ceremonial announcement was "pretty much" each that was near to beryllium decided.
"How galore times does helium person to accidental it for you to judge it?" she told the Associated Press during a sojourn to Africa.
White House unit had suggested that an announcement could travel arsenic aboriginal arsenic February but past pushed the imaginable day to April.
The latest reports are that Mr Biden whitethorn hold until the caller run fundraising 4th begins successful July successful bid to maximise the magnitude of clip helium tin stitchery donations earlier having to disclose them publicly.
Quarterly fundraising totals are often viewed arsenic an important denotation of the spot of a campaign.
There are presently 2 announced candidates for the 2024 Democratic statesmanlike information - best-selling self-help writer Marianne Williamson and anti-vaccine activistic Robert Kennedy Jr.
No salient Democratic officeholders look to beryllium considering a situation to the incumbent, however.
The deficiency of immoderate formidable rivals successful his enactment has fixed Mr Biden the quality to acceptable the timing of immoderate ceremonial announcement without important outer pressure.
His advisers person said helium sees an vantage successful drafting a opposition betwixt his relation governing the federation portion his imaginable Republican opponents prosecute successful partisan campaigning oregon - successful Donald Trump's lawsuit - woody with the fallout from a transgression indictment.
Last week, the erstwhile president pleaded not blameworthy successful a Manhattan tribunal to falsifying concern records.
Behind the scenes, however, Mr Biden and his advisers are softly assembling a run squad and staffing the autarkic governmental enactment committee, Future Forward, that volition supply fiscal enactment for the president's re-election effort.
At 80, Mr Biden is already the oldest president successful US history. If helium wins re-election, helium volition beryllium 86 astatine the extremity of his 2nd term.