President Joe Biden stated in an interview airing Wednesday that he would possibly rethink his resolution to remain within the race towards Donald Trump if a medical situation emerged and was identified by docs — giving the clearest indication but that he could also be faltering in his vow to hunt a second time period.

“Is there anything that you would look to you, personally… to say, ‘If I see that, I will reevaluate?’” BET host Ed Gordon requested the 81-year-old in an interview performed Tuesday.

“If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, ‘You got this problem, that problem,’” Biden stated in an excerpt launched Wednesday.

Joe Biden will go away the presidential race if he has well being issues — media

“If I had any health problems, if somebody — if the doctors came in and said you have this problem, that’s a problem,” Joe Biden informed interviewer Ed Gordon. pic.twitter.com/7pkPqyjI9X

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Mr. Biden has stated repeatedly that none of his docs have informed him he has a critical medical situation. Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor, wrote after the president’s bodily in February that Mr. Biden is “a healthy, active, robust, 81-year-old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.”

But his disastrous efficiency at a debate with Trump final month, which prompted a wave of calls by even Democratic allies to step apart, raised questions on his well being and acuity.

The remark is the newest in a sequence of shifting explanations by the president about what would possibly trigger him to rethink. In an interview with ABC News this month, Mr. Biden stated he would drop out provided that the “Lord almighty” informed him to. At a information convention in Washington a number of days later, he stated he would keep within the race until aides got here to him with proof that he might by no means win.

In the identical interview, Biden stated that he feels the necessity to run once more — slightly than function a “transitional” chief, as he stated in 2020 — as a result of the nation is “so divided.”

“I said I was going to be a transitional candidate, and I thought I would be able to move on from this and pass it on to somebody else,” he stated. “But I didn’t anticipate things getting so, so, so divided. And quite frankly, I think the only thing age brings is a little bit of wisdom.”

“I think I’ve demonstrated that I know how to get things done for the country in spite of the fact that we were told we couldn’t get it done,” Biden continued. “But there’s more to do, and I’m reluctant to walk away from that.”