(Xinhua/Aaron Schwartz)
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Joe Biden officially announced on Tuesday that he is running for president in 2024, seeking a second four-year term in the White House.
“When I ran for president four years ago, I said we were in a battle for the soul of America. We still are,” Biden said. Democratic Party, in a campaign video released early in the morning.
The announcement came on the fourth anniversary of the launch of Mr Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
Senior White House official and longtime Democratic Party activist Julie Chavez Rodriguez is expected to lead Mr Biden’s 2024 campaign.
Former US President Donald Trump, who lost the 2020 election but refused to concede defeat, announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination last November.
Mr. Trump attacked Mr. Biden in a statement on Monday evening, calling his presidency “calamitous and a failure”.
The next US presidential election will be held on November 5, 2024.
According to a new national poll from NBC News, voters are not very supportive of a new Biden-Trump duel for next year’s election.
Indeed, according to this poll, 70% of Americans believe that Mr. Biden should not run for a second term.
As for Mr. Trump, 60% of Americans think that the former Republican president should not be a candidate for 2024, reveals the poll.
“At this point, 2024 is shaping up to be a continuation of the 2020 election,” said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of polling firm Hart Research, who conducted this opinion poll with Republican pollster Bill McInturff and his team. from Public Opinion Strategies, quoted by NBC News.
“Sequels are often box office hits, but it doesn’t seem to be the case at the polls,” Horwitt added.
Clearly voters “don’t want a Biden-Trump rematch,” McInturff noted. END
2023-04-25 23:34:25
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