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BREAKING: 80-Year-Old Joe #Biden Finally Confirms He Is Running For 2nd Term—-Joe Biden finally announced on Tuesday what he has been dancing around for months – that he will seek a second term in office.
The 80-year-old has long said he has intended to seek four more years in the White House, but kept the U.S. waiting by resisting formally announcing his bid.
He has thrown his hat into the ring despite mounting questions about his age – which will be 86 at the end of his second term.
His announcement on Tuesday marks the four-year anniversary of his entry into the 2020 presidential election. It’s been in the works for weeks, however.
Biden shot part of the video when he was at his family home in Rehoboth Beach earlier this month and he’s slowing putting together a campaign staff, including naming longtime adviser Julie Chavez Rodriguez as manager.
But it’s unclear when he’ll actually hit the campaign trail. His week is busy – he has a state dinner with the president of North Korea on Wednesday, on Friday he’ll present the Commander-in-Chief’s trophy to the Air Force Falcons during a ceremony at the White House; and on Saturday he and Jill Biden will attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
On Friday, he will meet with some of his top donors, according to reports, as he begins the tedious process of raising the millions necessary for a modern-day presidential campaign.
His campaign message is expected to focus on his accomplishments in office – particularly his bipartisan Infrastructure plan, his CHIPS plan, and his American Rescue Plan in response to the COVID pandemic.
Biden will also bring back a theme from his last White House bid: his fight for democracy and pushing back at the threat he sees ‘MAGA Republicans’ posing to the country. He often accuses Republicans of trying to cut entitlement programs that hurt the middle class – a voting bloc that tends to decide presidential elections. He’s called the far right an ‘attack on the soul of our nation.’
But, unlike in 2020, when Biden focused his attacks on Trump, this time around he will have to defend his own record in the White House. And Republicans have already tested out battle lines: hitting Biden for what they call out-of-control government spending, hammering him on the high rate of inflation and the national debt, and criticizing him for not doing enough about illegal immigration.
‘Running for the president the first time is aspirational. You can make all sorts of big, bold promises,’ former White House press secretary Jen Psaki on her MSNBC Sunday, predicting an ‘incredibly difficult’ re-election campaign for the president.
‘Running for re-election is when you actually get your report card from the American people.’
Biden enters the race as half of Democrats admit they’d prefer another option for their presidential nominee and Republicans have double down on their support for Donald Trump amid the former president’s legal issues.
At 80 years old, Biden is the oldest person ever to be elected president and questions linger about his health. His doctor has pronounced him fit to serve but Biden has shown signs he’s feeling his years: he sometimes walks with a limp, he has tripped walking up the stairs to board Air Force One, and he’s made multiple verbal gaffes.
And he’ll be on public display over the next year in a way he wasn’t during the 2020 campaign when he campaigned from zoom meetings and in rare car rallies because of the dangers of COVID.
The American people will regularly see him out and about, interacting with voters and showing he’s fit to serve.
CREDIT: DAILYMAIL.CO.UK