Is there precedent in a sitting President not running though? Perhaps there's a thought that not doing it casts a lack of confidence in the current administration, putting the next candidate on the back foot from the outset
edit: I don't think there is - all the single term presidents recently tried for re-election
This was my feeling. A party not putting their existing candidate forward seems ripe for the other side to rip into and knock any confidence the public may have had in them.
Is there precedent in a sitting President not running though? Perhaps there's a thought that not doing it casts a lack of confidence in the current administration, putting the next candidate on the back foot from the outset
edit: I don't think there is - all the single term presidents recently tried for re-election