WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden announced Tuesday his bid"to finish the job" with re-election in 2024, plunging at the record age of 80 into a ferocious campaign that could set up a rematch against Donald Trump.
"That's been the work of my first term: to fight for our democracy," Biden says."Let's finish this job -- I know we can." After a series of big domestic legislative wins, a strong economic recovery from the Covid pandemic, and momentous foreign policy struggles, Biden has no real challenger from within the Democratic Party.
He made no reference to the age issue in his video, although a segment near the end showed him grinning and jogging into a public event.Over the next year and a half, Biden will have all the advantages of incumbency, backed by a united Democratic Party, while Republicans are only just starting their messy primary season.