President Joe Biden launches 2024 re-election campaign

US President Joe Biden has announced helium volition tally for re-election successful 2024, mounting the signifier for a imaginable rematch with Donald Trump.

The Democrat had been expected to question a 2nd four-year word and launched his run successful a video connected Tuesday.

He said it was a pivotal infinitesimal with freedoms and rights nether threat. "This is not a clip to beryllium complacent," helium said. "That's wherefore I'm running".

Vice-President Kamala Harris, 58, volition erstwhile again beryllium his moving mate.

Mr Biden, 80, is already the oldest president successful US past and is apt to look questions astir his property passim the campaign. He would beryllium 86 aft finishing a 2nd afloat word successful 2029.

"It's morganatic for radical to rise issues astir my age," helium said earlier this year. "And the lone happening I tin accidental is, ticker me."

Within hours of announcing his candidacy, President Biden addressed Union workers successful Washington, DC wherever helium was greeted with cheers of "Let's go, Joe" and "four much years!".

Throughout the code the president underscored what appears to beryllium his slogan for the 2024 campaign: "It's clip to decorativeness the job."

He touted his efforts to reconstruct the American system aft the pandemic arsenic good arsenic the bipartisan infrastructure bill, earlier teasing what helium would bash with a 2nd word successful office.

"We've got a batch much to do," Mr Biden said.

Mr Biden faced disconnected against Mr Trump successful 2020, defeating the Republican aft promising to "restore the psyche of the United States".

"When I ran for president 4 years ago, I said we are successful a conflict for the psyche of America - and we inactive are," Mr Biden said successful the three-minute announcement video, which shows the president gathering a divers scope of Americans.

It besides features images of the 2021 onslaught connected the US Capitol, erstwhile supporters of Mr Trump stormed the gathering successful an effort to overturn his nonaccomplishment to Mr Biden.

Mr Trump has already launched his bid for the presidency, raising the imaginable that some men volition look each different again connected 5 November 2024. They are considered favourites to triumph their nominations though Mr Trump faces contention from the likes of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

"You could instrumentality the 5 worst presidents successful American history, and enactment them together, and they would not person done the harm Joe Biden has done," Mr Trump said successful a connection connected Monday night.

Mr Biden has agelong signalled that helium planned to basal for re-election with the main question being erstwhile helium would announce. After spending the play with aides astatine Camp David, the statesmanlike retreat successful Maryland, helium opted to motorboat his run connected the 4th day of his 2020 announcement.

Julie Chavez Rodriguez, a elder White House adviser, volition service arsenic his run manager.

As yet Mr Biden has nary large challengers for the Democratic information meaning a creaseless way to the candidacy is astir certain.

But caller polls suggest his determination to tally is simply a divisive 1 some wrong the enactment and nationally. An NBC News canvass implicit the weekend recovered that 70% of Americans, and conscionable implicit fractional of Democrats, judge helium should not tally again.

A bulk of radical who said Mr Biden should not tally cited his property arsenic a concern. Forty-eight percent said it was a "major concern".

His support ratings stay antagonistic by a important borderline but Mr Biden's hopes of re-election were boosted precocious past twelvemonth erstwhile his enactment performed amended than expected successful the midterm elections.

He besides has a bid of legislative achievements to tout connected the run trail, including a $1.2tn infrastructure measure and the marshalling of Western enactment for Ukraine since Russia's invasion.

There are presently 2 different announced candidates for the Democratic information - bestselling self-help writer Marianne Williamson and anti-vaccine activistic Robert Kennedy Jr.

The deficiency of immoderate formidable rivals successful his enactment allowed Mr Biden to acceptable the timing of his announcement without important outer pressure.

His advisers person said helium sees an vantage successful drafting a opposition betwixt his relation governing the federation portion his imaginable Republican opponents prosecute successful partisan campaigning oregon - successful Mr Trump's lawsuit - woody with transgression investigations.

The Republican Party responded to his announcement by describing Mr Biden arsenic "out-of-touch" for reasoning helium deserves to beryllium re-elected aft "creating situation aft crisis" implicit the past 4 years.

The party's nationalist committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said her enactment was agreed down beating him successful 2024, adding that US citizens were "counting down the days until they tin nonstop Biden packing".

As is the caller contented successful American statesmanlike politics, Joe Biden announced his White House bid successful a pre-recorded, slickly produced video that tightly controls the opening connection of the caller campaign.

The precise archetypal images are of the US Capitol, shrouded successful teardrop gas, nether onslaught by Donald Trump supporters connected 6 January 2021. The adjacent is of an termination rights protester astatine a rally extracurricular the Supreme Court.

This is not a lukewarm tribute to 4 years of Mr Biden's presidency - though determination volition beryllium immoderate of that aboriginal - but a stark informing of struggle and danger.

From there, Mr Biden rapidly tries to assertion the precocious crushed connected defending the idiosyncratic freedoms of Americans - thing Republicans often assertion the president and his chap Democrats threaten.

He denounces "Maga Republicans" with speedy shots of Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. While re-election campaigns are typically a referendum connected the incumbent, from the get-go the Biden squad is coating the coming predetermination arsenic 1 of contrasts.

There are besides warnings of Republican threats to the government-run Social Security status programme, book-banning efforts and "telling radical who they tin love".

The catchphrase that galore thought would beryllium the centrepoint of Mr Biden's campaign, "let's decorativeness the job", does not marque an quality until the precise end. The connection here, instead, seems to beryllium "let's decorativeness Donald Trump and the Republicans".