FOUR MORE YEARS‼️…..
President Biden announced his bid for a second four-year term in a video posted online Tuesday morning, urging voters to let him “finish this job” and setting in motion the possibility of a rematch with former President Donald J. Trump.
In the three-minute, four-second video, Mr. Biden says he has spent his first years in office fighting for democracy and freedom. And he warns that “MAGA extremists” around the country — using Mr. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan — threaten those freedoms.
“When I ran for president four years ago, I said we are in a battle for the soul of America. And we still are,” Mr. Biden says in the video, adding later: “That’s why I’m running for re-election.”
The formal declaration of Mr. Biden’s candidacy comes four years to the day after he said he would seek the presidency in 2019, asserting at the time that it was vital to prevent Mr. Trump from winning a second term.
Mr. Biden succeeded in 2020. But if Mr. Trump becomes the Republican nominee — he is currently the front-runner — Mr. Biden’s legacy will be determined by whether he is able to once again block Mr. Trump’s return to power.
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Mr. Biden will speak to union workers at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time in Washington about plans to help manufacturing and the middle class. The event nods at his 2020 announcement, when he spoke at a Pittsburgh union hall after releasing a campaign launch video online.
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Neither Mr. Biden’s schedule nor his message is likely to change immediately. Aides said he was expected to keep up the same themes he had focused on for months: claiming credit for an improving economy and assailing Republicans on abortion, tax cuts, guns and intolerance. But fund-raising will ramp up quickly: The president’s top donors have been invited to a summit in Washington on Friday to begin raising money.
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Mr. Biden has all but cleared the Democratic presidential fielddespite concerns about his age — at 80, he is already the oldest American president in history — and persistent misgivings held by a large number of his party’s voters. Although polls repeatedly show that Democrats yearn for a fresh face in 2024, they just don’t know who that would be.
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Mr. Biden chose Julie Chávez Rodríguez, a top adviser and the highest-ranking Latina in the White House, to be his campaign manager. Quentin Fulks, who managed the 2022 campaign for Senator Raphael G. Warnock of Georgia, will be her deputy. Other members of Mr. Biden’s inner circle — including Jen O’Malley Dillon, his previous campaign manger, and Anita Dunn, his communications guru — will stay in the White House for now.
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The president does not mention Mr. Trump by name in his announcement video…..
Note….
Right Now….
Democrats ain’t got ANYBODY else…..
image…Doug Millis/NY Times
Kamala Harris is in fhat video several times. So any silly talk about switching out VPs– like we hear every time an incumbent runs again–is just that. Silly talk.
Agreed Scott….
He might have be pissed at here back in the 2020 debates, but that is long gone and?
He doesn’t last
She gets rhe White House to finish his second term
So let’s see,
You are “ predicting “ that Biden wins, then dies ,and Harris becomes President?
I see, I see….
No ……
That is Ur spin……
I AM stating a possible scenario….
That COULD occur…..
I hope Joe live’s to be 100 at least!
That’s pretty morbid.
Or that he is somehow otherwise unable to finish his term or will resign early,. which is a pretty lousy outlook to launch a campaign on if that is the intention.
Stop with the NONSENSE
WE HAVE Vice President’s and procedures for the possibility…..
Regan wasn’t leading much of anything at the end of his time during his second term….
Don Regan was fired in 1987,
Ronald Reagan finished his term as a very active and popular President. He was far more accessible to the media than Biden is in giving interviews and holding press conferences.
Your previous comment is ambiguous because I see you are using a question mark in it, but the way you chose to communicate it caused jack and I to both think you meant the same thing. I think most people would have read it as you saying Biden was going to die in his second term and Kamala Harris will get something good out of it.
My bad on the spelling….
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Ronald was NOT in full control of his facilities and government….
Reagan Aides Once Raised the Possibility of Invoking the 25th Amendment
.The staff “told stories about how inattentive and inept the president was,” Cannon recalled to journalists Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus in Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988. “He was lazy; he wasn’t interested in the job. They said he wouldn’t read the papers they gave him—even short position papers and documents. They said he wouldn’t come over to work—all he wanted to do was to watch movies and television at the residence.”
At the time, Reagan was the oldest president the country had ever had. “President Reagan was an older man in his 70s, and he showed it,” writes Stephen F. Knott, a professor of national security affairs at the United States Naval War College, in an email. He “was never a detail person; fell asleep at cabinet meetings in the midst of briefings from droning bureaucrats; was horrible at remembering names… This was a man who required lots of rest and recreation.”
Cannon suggested that Baker consider whether the fourth section of the 25th Amendment could apply to this situation. That section gives the vice president and the cabinet the ability to remove the president if he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”….
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As a Democratic Voter, I feel like a majority of Democratic voters, will vote for Biden, but really don’t want him any more running the country…82…too old to be president…and especially him…but never trump or DeSantis…If I am being truly honest…I wish the Republicans put forth Larry Hogan as a candidate..I would consider him as an alternative option to Biden…
In regards to James’s reference about Harris taking over, I don’t think he was assuming/insinuating Biden will die and Harris will take over…he nearly stated the obvious fact, I am not sure how that fit into what he was replying to, but I didn’t take it was that he was theorizing and anticipating a scenario for Harris to take over…
In the end?
people tend to vote with their heart and ANOTHER Trump 4 years ain’t what a majority of people polled say they want…..
I know the pollks right now would have a Biden slight win over Trump….
But I continually point out here…
the Donald Trump you see RIGHT NOW?
Has littel resemblance to who he will be by the end of the year and certainly IN a year…..
He IS in Deeep Legal shit….
Biden IS a LOCK unless something crazy happens….
Thanks BDog…..
It WAS a fact…..