“I think I was just in protection mode the whole time,” he says. But it’s still a process because I still don’t understand why people were so into it.” Now 30, the singer breaks into a nervous laugh familiar to anyone who watched him on “Idol.” “Like, 13 years later, I’m piecing together what actually was going on. “I felt so disconnected from everything,” he says now, perched on his publicist’s couch on a scorching Los Angeles day in October. Fundamentally, Archuleta didn’t know that he wanted any of this at all. He desperately missed his family back home in Utah. He hated being pitted against other singers. He was overwhelmed by the unrelenting schedule. He didn’t understand, either, why older male fans kept yelling at him to come out already, or why his own father would tell him about online speculation about his sexuality like it was hot gossip. He didn’t understand why those girls were screaming, let alone why tens of millions of people would vote for him week after week - ultimately catapulting Archuleta to the finale, where he would finish second to David Cook. Instead, one thought kept drumming through his head: “I don’t want to be here anymore.” In that moment, with his father, Jeff, beaming from his seat just feet away, Archuleta knew he should be nothing but grateful for the praise.
Randy Jackson told Archuleta he was “born to do exactly what you’re doing.” Paula Abdul gushed that he was “destined for superstardom.” And Simon Cowell proclaimed, “Right now, you’re the one to beat.” 28, 2008, episode with John Lennon’s “Imagine.” The performance - a master class in immaculate pop vocal precision - earned the then-17-year-old wild screams from the tween and teen girls in the studio audience and instant raves from the judges. It was round two of the semifinals on Season 7 of “American Idol,” and David Archuleta had just closed the Feb. Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed in November that Biden is looking to mount a re-election bid, telling reporters 'that's his intention.'īut CNN and the New York Times both presented a list of 11 candidates while noting that if he was elected, Biden would be turning 82 soon after being sworn in - beating his previously held record for the oldest person to enter the office.Īside from the three mentioned earlier, the other hopefuls are: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Senators Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo New Jersey Governor Chris Murphy Illinois Governor JB Pritzker former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who Biden has tapped as his infrastructure czar and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. The Times published a similar piece to CNN earlier this week, floating the same group of 11 potential presidential hopefuls and noting that 'conversations about possible alternatives are beginning far earlier than is customary for a president still in the first year of his first term.' They include his own Vice President Kamala Harris, who is grappling with her own low approval ratings Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg and failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who is taking another shot at leading the Peach State in 2022.Īnd with less than a year of his presidency down, Biden has also gone from being endorsed by the New York Times - one of the largest and oldest news outlets in the country - to that same organization publishing a searing opinion piece titled 'Biden Should Not Run Again - and He Should Say He Won’t.'
The 79-year-old president is mentioned less and less frequently in discussions about the next Democratic primary, as evidenced by a CNN piece published Wednesday taking a first glance at the next crop of presidential candidates looking at 'who might take his place.' Two of the largest media organizations in the United States appear to be setting up for a post-Joe Biden White House election cycle in 2024.
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