“Joe Biden has been sending signals for months that he intends to run for a second term” for the presidency of the United States, underline The Washington Post. If the current tenant of the White House has so far refrained from making an official announcement, it is because “neither he nor his advisers feel an urgency” to embark on a new campaign, given “the good results garnered by the Democrats in the mid-term legislative elections of November 2022”, who ruled out the risk of seeing a serious rival running against him in the Democratic camp.
The president’s team is currently putting the finishing touches to a campaign launch video that is set to air on Tuesday, April 25, a date that was not chosen at random since it was April 25, 2019 that Joe Biden had launched in the race for the Democratic primary for the November 2020 presidential election.
An election campaign like no other
The daily newspaper of the American federal capital stresses that this announcement will be the starting point of a presidential campaign like no other, recalling the great age of the current tenant of the White House, “aged 80 today and who would therefore be 86 at the end of his second term if he manages to be re-elected”.
Facing him, several Republican candidates have already announced that they are candidates for the nomination of their party for the presidential election of 2024, including former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, the entrepreneur of Indian origin Vivek Ramaswamy, or the former governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson.
US media also expect the very conservative Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, take the plunge in the next few days or weeks. But it is of course the prospect of a new duel between former Republican President Donald Trump and the current tenant of the White House, Joe Biden, which has caused the most ink to flow in the American press.
2023-04-21 10:43:22
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