Joe Biden has declared he will run for president again in 2024 putting to bed any speculation that the octogenarian would become a self-imposed one-term president. The president asked voters to give him more time to “finish the job”.
The announcement comes four years to the day after he declared he would run against Donald Trump in 2019 ahead of the 2020 election.
His campaign, at the moment, will likely focus on taking credit for improving the economy and slamming Republicans on abortion, taxes and issues of tolerance.
However, Biden faces low approval ratings among the electorate and not just among Republicans.
A new NBC News Poll shows that 70 percent of Americans don’t want Biden to run again, including 51 percent of Democrats.
Still, Joe Biden appears to be the Democratic frontrunner with only fringe candidates from his own party declared against him.
“I said we are in a battle for the soul of America, and we still are,” Biden said. “The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. More rights or fewer.”
While the question of seeking re-election has been a given for most modern presidents, that’s not always been the case for Biden, as a notable swath of Democratic voters have indicated they would prefer he not run, in part because of his age – concerns Biden has called “totally legitimate” but ones he did not address head-on in the launch video.
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