Biden, 80, makes 2024 presidential run official: “Let’s finish this job”

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced he will run for a second term in 2024, testing whether Americans are ready to give the 80-year-old Democrat, already the oldest U.S. president, another four years.

In a polished video issued by his new campaign staff, Biden declared that he will safeguard American democracy. The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters opens it.

“When I ran for president four years ago, I said we’re in a battle for the soul of America, and we still are,” Biden added. It’s not time to relax. I’m running again.”

Finish this job. He declared, “We can.”

Biden called Republican policies “MAGA extremists” and pledged to combat efforts to limit women’s healthcare, slash Social Security, and ban books. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” catchphrase, MAGA, may be Biden’s Republican opponent in November 2024.

Biden won Congress’ approval for billions of dollars in federal funds to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and build new infrastructure in the two years since he took over from Trump, and he oversaw the lowest unemployment rates since 1969, but inflation rose to a 40-year high.

Biden’s age makes his re-election bid a historic and hazardous gamble for the Democratic Party, which is in the minority in the House and confronts a tough Senate election map in 2024.

In a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on April 19, Biden’s support rating remained at 39%, and some Americans are concerned about his age. By the end of a second term, he would be 86, over a decade older than the average American male.

After a February exam, Biden was deemed “fit for duty” by doctors. The White House claims he is psychologically fit for the job.

Vice President Kamala Harris will run with Biden in 2024.

Trump rematch?
Biden’s participation follows Trump’s November announcement that he would run again after losing to Biden in 2020.

Trump’s announcement on Biden’s candidacy questioned the president’s immigration, inflation, and Afghanistan withdrawal policies.

Inflation is destroying American families. “Banks fail,” Trump tweeted. “We have surrendered our energy independence, just like in Afghanistan,” he stated.
Incumbent Biden is unlikely to face much party competition. He has a campaign advisory board of rising-star Democrats, including Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker and Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro.

Republican presidential contenders are framing the 2024 election around lowering government spending amid high inflation, restricting abortion, crime in Democratic areas, and illegal immigration.

Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the leading Republican candidates, seek to restrict trans children’s access to sports teams and gender-affirming medical care and limit how schools teach LGBTQ+ issues and America’s history of slavery and racial inequities.

Trump faces a civil lawsuit on Tuesday for allegedly raping writer E.Jean Carroll in a department shop dressing room in the mid-1990s.

In October 2022, the former president denied raping Carroll on Truth Social.

NO 2020 RECAP
Biden mounted a mostly virtual campaign to defeat Trump in 2020, stating he wanted to unify the country, repair the economy, and better regulate COVID-19.

The 2024 race will likely be more muscular due to US pandemic limitations being lifted.

Trump falsely claimed extensive electoral fraud after losing to Biden by 7 million votes in 2020.

On Jan. 6, 2021, his followers stormed the U.S. Capitol in support of his claims, but Congress certified Biden’s win.

Biden’s campaign film appears to remind voters of these steps while praising his economic recovery from the epidemic recession, notably the labor market.

The White House claims Republican promises to dismantle federal healthcare and programs popular with older people may also be Biden themes.

Biden is urging Republicans to agree on raising the U.S. debt ceiling before the country defaults this summer.

“Joe Biden is too old to work in government” was the opinion of 59% of Democrats polled by Reuters/Ipsos in February.