Biden considers himself to be very fortunate if he faces Trump in the 2024 elections.

On Thursday, the United States president, Joe Biden said that if former President Donald Trump runs against him in the 2024 presidential election, he would consider himself to be very fortunate.

At a press conference from NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, where he and other alliance leaders reviewed options to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Biden is quoted to have said, “In the next election I’d be very fortunate if I had that same man running against me.”

Biden's confidence comes at a time when the Democrat is polling poorly and Trump has said that he will probably run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

In the 2020 election, Biden defeated Trump by over 4 percentage points in the popular vote and 74 Electoral College votes.

While Trump won the Electoral College by 77 votes in 2016, he was defeated by Democrat Hillary Clinton in the popular vote by 2 percentage points.

"There are widespread concerns in Europe that a character like your predecessor might get elected president again," a reporter at the NATO event said, this was what prompted the remark that the president made towards Trump.

The journalist then inquired if there were any steps, anything the president or NATO was attempting to do or trying to do to stop Trump from overturning the alliance's efforts.

In response to the question the U.S president said after leaving office as vice president in 2017, he had no intention of running for president, but later that year, he changed his mind after witnessing demonstrations of people as they were carrying torches and Nazi banners at a Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Biden said, “And the gentleman you mentioned was asked what he thought and he said there are very good people on both sides.”

He noted that it was at that point he decided that he was not going to be quiet anymore.

The president later stated during a meeting with fellow NATO leaders on Thursday. He said, “America’s back.” And one of my counterparts, a head of state, said, “For how long?” Biden revealed.

Biden also made it known that he doesn’t fault the reporter for inquiring about Trump running for president again.

Trump and his supporters claim that Biden's victory was based on election fraud. For more than a year, Trump has erroneously claimed that he, not Biden, won the 2020 election.

Hundreds of lawsuits filed by Trump and his allies challenging the 2020 election results were dismissed by the courts.

After supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol while Congress was counting Biden's victory on Jan. 6, 2021, the House impeached him for encouragement to revolt. 

Trump was later found not guilty by the Senate.

The former U.S president has made a series of fraudulent election claims as he considers a re-election bid.

At an address to Republican fundraisers in New Orleans two weeks ago, Trump claimed, “We've already won two presidential elections.”...“And now I feel obligated that we have to really look strongly at doing it again”

“We are looking at it very, very strongly. We have to do it. We have to do it.” He added.