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Joe Biden, 80, Formally Declares 2024 Re-Election Bid

Omotayo Daranjo by Omotayo Daranjo
April 26, 2023
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President Joe Biden an­nounced Tuesday he is run­ning for re-election in 2024, plunging at the record age of 80 into a ferocious new White House campaign “to finish the job.”

“Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democra­cy. To stand up for their fun­damental freedoms,” Biden wrote on Twitter, along with a video.

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“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.”

After a series of big legis­lative wins and momentous foreign policy struggles in his first two years in office, Biden has no real challeng­er from within the Demo­cratic Party.

But in a campaign that may result in a rematch of the 2020 election against Donald Trump, he is ex­pected to face constant and fierce scrutiny over 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.

Over the next year and a half, Biden will have all the advantages of incumbency, backed by a united party, while Republicans are only just starting a messy prima­ry season.

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 front runner.

On Monday, Trump was quick to pitch in his own criticism of the man who defeated him last time around.

“With such a calamitous and failed presidency, it is almost inconceivable that Biden would even think of running for re-election,” he said in a statement.

The most likely Repub­lican challenger to the 76-year-old Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, presents a similarly right-wing figure, though starkly younger at 44.

Biden will underline his foreign policy credentials on Tuesday when he meets with South Korean Presi­dent Yoon Suk Yeol, who is starting a state visit to the White House.

Like in 2020, Biden’s vid­eo message framed his elec­tion bid as a fight to save American democracy from Trump and increasingly alt-right Republicans. However, he also stressed his message of restoring an economy with heavy focus on the manufacturing base and jobs for the middle class.

Later on Tuesday he was expected to deliver an eco­nomic address to a union conference being held in Washington.

While not a campaign event, the scheduled theme – “how his investing in America agenda is bring­ing manufacturing back, rebuilding the middle class, and creating good-paying union jobs” – was set to be at the heart of the Democrat’s 2024 message.

Biden’s approval ratings have not topped 50 percent for more than a year and a half.

However, he has consis­tently over-delivered when it matters. Supporters say the Democratic Party’s surprisingly strong per­formance in 2022 midterm congressional elections vali­dated the Biden brand.

And while Biden may seem bland in comparison to Trump, he would bank on his moderate, old fash­ioned image being the se­cret weapon needed in an increasingly extreme era.

“My dad had an expres­sion,” Biden often says. “‘Joey, don’t compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative.’”

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