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.”
Biden wrote on Twitter, along with a video, “Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms,”
“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.”
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After a series of big legislative wins and momentous foreign policy struggles in his first two years in office, there is yet no real challenger for Biden from within the Democratic Party.
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 marshalling of an unprecedented Western alliance to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s invasion.
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