Current US President Joe Biden will participate in the 2024 presidential election. He confirms this in a Tuesday video message. In the video, he calls the upcoming elections a “struggle for democracy and personal freedom”.
The 80-year-old Biden is already the oldest president in the history of the United States. Recent polls show that about a quarter of Democrats are confident in his candidacy, with the rest preferring a younger president. If Biden is re-elected and serves his term, he will remain president until he turns 86.
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Biden’s candidacy increases the chance of a reprise of the 2020 election campaign, when he ran against then-incumbent President Donald Trump. The Republican announced six months ago that he would again be running for a seat in the White House. Biden is 82 years old on the day of the eventual swearing-in, Trump 78 years old.
“When I ran for president four years ago, I said we were fighting for the soul of America. We still are,” Biden said in the video. It also referred to a conflict with Trump by showing images of the storming of the Capitol.
Whether it will be another battle between Biden and Trump will show in the primaries among Democrats and Republicans. They are from February to June next year. The presidential election is on November 5, 2024.