2023-04-25 13:33:58
[뉴욕=이데일리 김정남 특파원 김상윤 기자] US President Joe Biden has officially declared that he will run for the presidency in 2024. His running mate is current Vice President Kamala Harris. Accordingly, within the Democratic Party, President Biden is a strong current as the next runner. Already, attention is focused on the possibility of a ‘return match’ with former President Donald Trump.
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Biden announces re-election run
In a video released online on the 25th (local time), President Biden first formalized his re-election challenge, saying, “Let’s get the job done,” and “I know we can do it.” This day marks the 4th anniversary of President Biden casting his vote for the first presidential election in 2020 on April 25, 2019. It is also the day before the Korea-US summit.
President Biden said, “The question we face will be whether we will have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer rights over the next few years.” At the same time, he emphasized, “Now is not the time to be complacent,” and “this is the reason for re-election.”
The 3-minute and 2-second video released on this day by President Biden begins with a scene in which supporters of former President Trump occupied the Capitol on January 6, 2021. President Biden explained the need for re-election, saying, “When I ran for the presidential election four years ago, I said we were fighting a battle for the soul of America, and it is still the case.” insisted.
President Biden appealed for support, saying, “Every generation has a moment to stand up for democracy,” and “Now is our (to rise) moment.”
President Biden also said, “‘MAGA’ (Make America Great Again) extremists are lining up all over the country and trying to take away freedom.” MAGA is a phrase coined by former President Trump as a political slogan. It is possible to interpret that President Biden is already considering former President Trump as his opponent in the next presidential election.
President Biden also started organizing the election camp in earnest. Vice President Harris, who was considered one of the next runners-up in the Democratic Party, decided to run together as a running mate this time as well. The head of the campaign committee is Julie Chavez Rodriguez, senior adviser to the White House. She is the granddaughter of Cesar Chavez, who is called the godfather of American labor.
The political family in Washington believes that it is likely that the Democratic Party will designate the next runner as President Biden. Although next-generation runners such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer are emerging, there are not a few evaluations that they are inferior in national recognition compared to President Biden. Currently, in the Democratic Party, Marianne Williamson, a former writer, and Robert Kennedy Jr., a nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, have expressed their intention to run for the presidency.
According to a poll of 1,230 American adults conducted by the Associated Press and the University of Chicago Public Opinion Research Center (NORC) on the 13th and 17th, 47% of the respondents said that President Biden should run for the 2024 presidential election among Democratic supporters. was This is a significant increase from 37% in the January survey. In particular, 81% of the supporters said they would support President Biden if he ran as a candidate.
Republican ‘Trump vs Disantis’
What draws attention is the Republican runner who confronted him. In the case of the Republican Party, unlike the Democratic Party, former President Trump and Florida Governor Ron Disantis are in a close battle.
According to a poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on 600 voters who are likely to participate in the Republican primary from the 11th to the 17th, former President Trump recorded an approval rating of 48% in the multilateral confrontation within the Republican Party, while Governor DeSantis (24%) ), former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley (5%), and Senator Tim Scott (3%). It is interpreted that the recent judicial risk is rather appearing as a gathering of hardline supporters. NBC said, “It is still too early (to predict the presidential structure),” but “a rematch between Biden and Trump seems increasingly inevitable.”
Earlier, when running for president in November last year, former President Trump said, “Now we are a declining and failing country.” “I will once more put America first in all policies,” he said. “Soon we will be great once more.”
President Biden and former President Trump are expected to engage in a sharp policy confrontation over US support for Ukraine, response to climate change, military spending, and the social security system.
The possibility of a head-to-head confrontation between the two is attracting attention even at their advanced age. President Biden, who was born in 1942, is 86 years old at the time of his tenure if he succeeds in re-election. He is the oldest ever. Former President Trump, born in 1946, will be 82 when he leaves office if elected. CNN said, “President Biden (not a young candidate) would rather welcome a match with former President Trump.” Governor Disantis, a rival in the Republican Party, was born in 1978 and is a ‘young blood’. Secretary Buttigieg and Governor Whitmer in the Democratic Party are also in their 40s and 50s.
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