2023-04-26 13:48:55
The open secret was confirmed. The president of the United States, Joe Biden, announced on Tuesday, April 25, that he will run for re-election in 2024, entering his 80 years and in what will be a strong and tough campaign to reoccupy the White House.
“Each generation has a moment in which it has had to defend democracy. Defend your fundamental freedoms”Biden wrote in a Twitter message accompanied by a video.
“I think this is ours. That is why I am running for re-election as President of the United States. Join us. Let’s finish the job,” he added.
Biden is running for his Democratic Party nomination without any real challenger, following a series of big legislative victories and major international fights in his first years in office.
In 2017 Joe Biden seemed headed for retirement and relative oblivion, but in August of that same year a far-right parade through the streets of Charlottesville (Virginia, South) pushed him to fight a “battle for the soul of America.”
He was a senator at 36, Barack Obama’s vice president for eight years, and now he is president of a country with great social and racial inequalities.a record of deaths from overdoses and killings with firearms.
He assures that it will recover by resorting to the original American values, to that founding dream of prosperity and the famous “pursuit of happiness” enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.
For this reason, former President Barack Obama and the former Secretary of State and former candidate for the Presidency of the North American country have publicly expressed their support for Biden’s re-election, claiming that both he and Vice President Kamala Harris should remain in office.
The former president has shown himself on social networks “proud” of everything the Biden Administration has achieved in favor of US citizens. In addition, he indicated that “he will continue to do so once he is re-elected,” adding that he is already looking at the November 2024 elections.
For her part, Clinton has stressed that “Joe and Kamala are the best to defend democracy, fight for rights and guarantee that everyone has a chance”, messages that Biden himself has also slipped in the video published just a few hours before.
His advanced age, one of the problems to be reelected
The age of the political veteran, who would be 86 when his second term ends, sows doubt even in his own constituency, where many believe he is too old.
The Republican opposition has already questioned his candidacy for the first time, stating that he is “disconnected” from reality.
“Biden is so disconnected from reality that he thinks he deserves four more years in power, when all he does is create one crisis following another,” party chief Ronna McDaniel said following Biden’s announcement.
Donald Trump, the rival to beat
Joe Biden has never hidden that his favorite rival for 2024 might be Donald Trump, who is already in the campaign and has plenty of reasons.
He already beat him in the previous elections, he is the favorite adversary of the Democrats and they also want to see how the American millionaire will have to alternate between the electoral and judicial calendars.
Of course, Biden knows that he will have to adapt his campaign if another rival emerges younger and just as conservative, like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
The current president of the United States knows that he has the statistics on his side and that US presidents usually get re-elected if they run for a second term. A tendency in which he should not be trusted, because he, due to his age, is hardly comparable with previous cases.
*With information from Europa Press and AFP.
Bernie Sanders announced his support for Joe Biden’s re-election bid
US Senator Bernie Sanders has confirmed this Tuesday that he will not stand for the 2024 presidential elections and that he will support the candidacy of the country’s president, Joe Biden.
Sanders, who finished just behind Biden in the Democratic Party nominations, made the announcement just a few hours following the current US president announced his candidacy for a second term in the White House.
“The last thing this country needs is Donald Trump or some right-wing demagogue trying to undermine American democracy or take away a woman’s right to choose, or failing to address the crisis of gun violence, or racism, sexism or homophobia,” Sanders said.
The Democratic senator also finished second in his party’s 2016 presidential race, which was won by Hillary Clinton.
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