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President Joe Biden announces 2024 reelection bid
FRANCE 24 English
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4/25/2023
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U.S. President Joe Biden has finally formally announced he is running for re-election in
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2024.
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Let's take a listen to what he had to say earlier.
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When I ran for president four years ago, I said we're in a battle for the soul of America,
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and we still are.
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The question we're facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom,
00:26
more rights or fewer.
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I know what I want the answer to be, and I think you do too.
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This is not a time to be complacent.
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That's why I'm running for re-election.
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Angela Diffinley is with me on the set.
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Interesting, that wasn't a live announcement.
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It was a pre-recorded announcement.
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There has been a lot of conversation about Joe Biden's age.
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He is 80 years old.
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And despite all of that, the announcement really didn't come as much of a surprise.
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No, he's been saying for some time.
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At the beginning when he first said he would stand, a lot of people thought that it was
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simply an announcement to stop that energy seeping away from the president.
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As soon as you say you're not going to seek a certain term, you lose authority.
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And so right at the very beginning when he said that, but it has become increasingly
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clear that he really did intend to stand.
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And here we are.
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He's released this video.
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He would be 86 at the time he was to hand over to his successor if he does a full term.
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That's quite something to consider.
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And a poll has just been released, which reveals that 70% of Americans think that he should
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not stand again.
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And 50% of Democrat voters think he should not run again.
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And they cite age as the key factor.
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They are worried about his age.
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Now, of course, before that, we have the primaries.
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There's no guarantee that he will be the candidate, but it's certainly he is the favourite.
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And we have Robert Kennedy Jr., the nephew of JFK, who is an anti-vaccine candidate.
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So he is not considered a very serious candidate.
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Marianne Williamson has also put herself forward.
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But the serious money is on Joe Biden getting through the primaries and being the Democrat
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candidate.
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Right.
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So looking ahead, then, what kind of campaign can we really expect from him and from his
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VP, Kamala Harris, from now to next November?
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I think there'll be a fair amount of attention on Kamala Harris because, of course, again,
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we have the age thing.
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He talked in that video there about the soul of America, and he would very much like it
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to be on that ground.
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If he's up against Joe Biden, there won't be too much talk.
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If he's up against Donald Trump, there won't be too much talk about age, although they
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look different.
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Biden has always been gaffe prone.
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It's debatable whether it's got worse or not with age, but there is a whole industry devoted
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in America to recording Joe Biden's gaffes.
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So that will probably be a key feature of the campaign.
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He will want to concentrate on his success in the midterms, on his respectable results
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on the economy in America.
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He has boosted infrastructure.
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He will want to highlight Republican infringements on abortion and, of course, above all, that
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Capitol Hill riot.
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So he will want to focus on those sort of things.
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We will see how that pans out.
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It is phenomenal to think that in a country of 300 million people, we will have probably
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two very senior men running for president.
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Another key factor is in the last campaign, Joe Biden was able to have quite a sedentary
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campaign.
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It was in the middle of Covid.
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He was following regulations.
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He stayed a lot in Delaware.
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This time he's going to be running the country and he's going to be out on the stuff.
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That is exhausting.
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So we'll watch.
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We'll see how it happens.
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Watch this space.
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OK, Angela, thank you for that.
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France 24's Angela Diffley.
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Bye.
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