President Joe Biden on Tuesday declared that he is running for re-election in 2024.
On his Twitter page with a video, the American President wrote, : “Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms,”
“I believe this is ours. That’s why I’m running for re-election as president of the United States. Join us. Let’s finish the job.”
Based on his performance in the first term, it appears that Biden will be coasting home as the candidate of the Democratic Party.
One major factor that many consider against the veteran Democrat is his age. The veteran Democrat would be 86 by the end of a second term. Even if a medical exam in February found him “fit” to execute the duties of the presidency, many including in his own voter base believe he is too old.
An NBC News poll released over the weekend found that 70 percent of Americans, including 51 percent of Democrats, believe he should not run.
Sixty-nine percent of all respondents who said he shouldn’t run cited concerns over his age as a major or minor reason.
Biden likes to answer those concerns by saying, “watch me” — meaning that voters should focus on his policy wins at home and his marshaling of an unprecedented Western alliance to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s invasion. He believes that his achievements should erase the age factor.
There is likely going to be a contest between Biden and Trump as Trump, despite becoming the first former or serving president to be criminally indicted — and facing probes into his attempt to overturn his loss to Biden in the 2020 election — is the overwhelming Republican frontrunner.
Theonly major challenger to Trump is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, 44, who appears to present a similarly right-wing figure.
The next few months leading to the election will rekindle the pre-2020 election bid which produced Biden
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