‘Let’s get the job done’: Biden announces his bid for re-election in 2024

US President Joe Biden, a Democrat, announced on Tuesday that he will run for re-election in 2024.entered his 80th year in a fierce new campaign for the White House, the newspaper reported France Press agency.

“Every generation has a moment when they have to stand up for democracy. Stand up for your basic freedoms,” Biden said. in the advertising video Posted on Twitter. “I think 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.”he added.

The video begins with footage of the violent invasion of supporters of former Republican President Donald Trump. (2017-2021) to the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Protests against repealing the right to abortion also appear, revealing Biden alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in various situations.

Biden is running for the Democratic nomination with no real challenger, After a string of important legislative victories and international battles in his first years in office. However, he will have to contend with questions about his age on the campaign trail, which could be a repeat of the 2020 election, when he faced Donald Trump.

The veteran politician’s age, who would have turned 86 when his second term ends, raises suspicion even in his electoral base, as many believe he is too old to hold office. The Republican opposition has already asked its first questions about his candidacy. “Biden is so detached from reality that he thinks he deserves another four years in power, when all he’s doing is creating one crisis after another,” said party chairwoman Rhona McDaniel.

A poll by Red NBC broadcasting network, released over the weekend, Decide that 70% of Americans, including 51% of Democrats, think Biden should not have run. Faced with these questions, Biden likes to answer, “Look at me.” It’s a way of saying voters should focus on his political victories at home, and on building an unprecedented Western coalition to help Ukraine confront Russia’s invasion in February 2022.

In the next year and a half, Biden will have the advantage of staying in power, with his united party, while the Republicans are just getting started with a complex primary. Tuesday was not chosen at random to announce his candidacy. It marks the fourth anniversary of the start of the campaign that gave him victory over Trump.

Biden knows that, according to the polls, Trump’s candidacy isn’t exciting, but neither is it. but, The Democrat is convinced that if he can beat him once, he can beat him again Thanks to his gentle personality and unifying programme.

For AFP, a big unknown remains: What are Biden’s chances if he takes on a younger challenger in November 2024? For example, the governor of Florida (southeast), Ron DeSantis, 44 years old. This emerging politician from the more conservative American right believes he has a chance of defeating the Democrat. “I have what it takes to be president,” he declared in March, “and I can beat Biden.”

lesser known character Republican Nikki Haley – the former US ambassador to the United Nations appointed by Trump – who is already campaigning He calls for the emergence of a “new generation” of politicians. Haley advocates, among other things, tests for the intellectual abilities of all political leaders over the age of 75.