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Ryan Ermine
United States correspondent
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Ryan Ermine
United States correspondent
After months of beating around the bush, Joe Biden has officially announced what everyone expected: he is running for a second term as president.
As in 2020, Biden is positioning himself as the best candidate to stand up to Donald Trump’s movement, whom he describes as extremists seeking to take liberties from ordinary Americans.
If Donald Trump becomes the Republican presidential nominee, the race for the White House next year could easily become a revenge match. But voters are less enthusiastic about this déjà vu scenario. Into a new one bearing of NBC News, 70 percent say Biden should not run for re-election (the poll was conducted before the official announcement) and 60 percent think Trump should not run for president again. This doesn’t mean the voter wouldn’t vote for them, but metal fatigue is on the rise.
Biden: Let’s finish the job. I know we can do it’
With 80-year-old Biden, half of the respondents think his age is an important reason to oppose his candidacy. He is already the oldest president in American history and would break his own record at his second inauguration at the age of 82.
Americans see a president who is sometimes speechless and looks tired and frail. It’s no coincidence, then, that Biden’s annual medical exam came under close scrutiny a few months ago. “Fit for dutyWhite House physician Kevin O’Connor concluded: “The president is able to discharge all his responsibilities without exceptions or adjustments.”
‘steady hand’
How do you take away the worry about his age? That question is central to his team’s campaign strategy. Biden’s advisers want to focus on his experience, a “steady hand on the helm” and point to what his administration has achieved.
Under Biden, Congress passed a number of sweeping bills, including a support package to combat the pandemic, an infrastructure bill backed by Republicans, and a comprehensive package of measures designed to make America greener and more sustainable.
But the voter has a bad memory and campaigning in the US is a marathon, not a sprint. Candidate Biden will have to go into the country even more, to shake hands and raise money. The previous campaign was in the middle of the pandemic and therefore there was less contact with the voter anyway.
But now he really has to go out. He will be assisted in this by First Lady Jill Biden, who already often takes his place at events, and of course by Vice President Kamala Harris who are again running mate is becoming.
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The director of this traveling campaign circus is a relatively new face in Biden’s circle of confidants. Julie Chavez Rodriguez, 45, was until recently a White House adviser. She is the granddaughter of Mexican-American civil rights icon Cesar Chavez.
She has the onerous task of remobilizing the group of voters that Biden brought into the White House in 2020. And that is more difficult than it seems. Biden leaned heavily on black, younger and more progressive voters, and those groups are less enthusiastic about his new candidacy.
In addition, more and more Latino voters are running away from the Democrats. It is therefore no coincidence that bringing in the Latino voice was one of Chavez Rodriguez’s previous tasks.
The Republicans, meanwhile, are not sitting still. Trump is the best-known presidential candidate, but former UN ambassador Nikki Haley has also applied for the highest post. Former Florida Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis are also expected to enter the race.
In the House of Representatives, where there is a Republican majority, Trump supporters have announced a series of investigations, including into the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and Hunter Biden, the president’s son. Their hope is that the fierce interrogations will politically damage or at least greatly distract the president in the run-up to November 5, 2024.
But street fighter Biden is used to something after seven Senate races and three presidential campaigns. He hopes that his pitch will once again prove to be a successful formula: “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the Alternative.” Don’t compare me to the Almighty, but to the alternative. The job to finish the job has begun.
2023-04-25 18:12:42
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