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Former US VP Joe Biden Announces 2020 Run for White House

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04/25/19
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Former US Vice President Joe Biden attends a rally with striking workers in Dorchester Massachusetts, April 2019.

Former US Vice President Joe Biden attends a rally with striking workers in Dorchester Massachusetts, April 2019. Photo: AFP

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Former U.S. vice president Joe Biden jumped into the race for the White House on Thursday, becoming a frontrunner in a crowded field challenging Donald Trump in 2020 and hoping to be the oldest leader in American history.

The party’s 76-year-old senior statesman is the most experienced and best recognized Democrat in the running, a popular former VP who has been at or near the top of early polls following months – even years – of campaign planning.

In a tweet accompanied by a three-and-a-half minute video, Biden said giving Trump four more years in power would be extremely dangerous and “fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are.”

Biden said a deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia woke him to the danger Trump posed, recalling that the president famously described “very fine people” on both sides of the clashes.

“And in that moment I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime,” Biden said.

The veteran Democrat added that he couldn’t sit back while Trump stood to gut America’s core values and “everything that made America America.”

“That’s why today I’m announcing my candidacy for President of the United States,” he said.


‘Sleepy Joe’ 

Trump’s response was swift: he insulted Biden on Twitter, his favorite forum for smacking down rivals, casting doubt on his rival’s mental capacity.

“Welcome to the race Sleepy Joe. I only hope you have the intelligence, long in doubt, to wage a successful primary campaign,” Trump tweeted.

Biden, whose working-class appeal remains intact despite nearly half a century in Washington politics, is seen by many as a comforting, known quantity for American voters who will be vetting some 20 Democrats now officially in the presidential field.

But recent controversy over his tactile style, particularly with women, could dampen a rollout that he envisioned as the final main entry to the Democratic primary battle.

Even before his official announcement, Biden, who served eight years as Barack Obama‘s vice president, led most surveys of Democratic voters.

The RealClearPolitics poll aggregate puts him as the favorite with 29.3 percent support, followed by independent Senator Bernie Sanders at 23 percent.

The record number of candidates means Biden finds himself in a field of unprecedented diversity as he makes his third run for president, following two unsuccessful attempts in 1988 and 2008.

After the death of his son Beau from cancer, Biden opted out of a presidential campaign in 2016.


Criticisms from the Left 

As he let the suspense over his political plans drag out for months, his lead has been whittled down, with newer and notably young faces gaining ground including moderate South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who at 37 is less than half Biden’s age

Complicating matters, the last weeks of waiting have been clouded by revelations from multiple women accusing Biden of touching them inappropriately or making them feel uncomfortable with his shows of affection.

Biden, an old-school politico who acknowledges he is quick to offer hugs and shoulder rubs as he forges “connections” with voters, has refused to outright apologized for his behavior.

“I’m not sorry for anything I have ever done,” Biden told reporters in early April.

He has, however, pledged to be “more mindful” about society’s changing boundaries.

Biden has also been criticized from the left by some in the more progressive wing of the party for his voting record.

In a tweet Thursday, Justice Democrats – the organization that helped launch the campaign of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – highlighted Biden’s support for the Iraq war, the 1994 crime bill now widely understood to have fueled mass incarceration, and the defense of marriage act.


Leading the Pack 

Obama, through a spokesperson and a source close to his thinking, praised Biden but pointedly avoided endorsing him, saying the Democratic field is very diverse and he prefers to “let the candidates make their cases directly to the voters.”

After Biden and Sanders in the Democrat race, Senator Kamala Harris is third with 8.3 percent, followed by Buttigieg with 7.5 percent, progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren with 6.5 percent and former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke at 6.3 percent.

Biden leads the pack largely on the strength of his lifelong political experience – he was elected to the U.S. Senate at just 29 – and his name recognition.

In his video, Biden said he hoped the Trump years would be just an ugly twitch in human history.

“But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are and I cannot stand by and watch that happen.

“The core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that made America America, is at stake,” he said.


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