Maintaining the "spirit of America" is his primary mission, he said.
Several obstacles stand in the way of Biden to win a second presidential term
Biden is not paying attention to the issue of his age. Reuters
Trump does not see the series of scandals surrounding him as an obstacle to his candidacy for a second term. A.B
An American citizen placed a campaign sign in front of his house calling for voting for Trump many months before polling. AFP
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On April 25, 2023, US President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, officially announced that he would run in the next US presidential elections scheduled for November 2024. Biden tweeted: "Every generation has a moment when it has to defend democracy, defend its fundamental freedoms, and I think this is our moment. That's why I'm nominated for re-election as president of the United States, join us to get the job done," along with a three-minute video directed by his campaign team, which begins with images from the events of the Capitol on January 2021, <>, and describes his administration as defending personal freedom, democracy and pluralism. Biden asserted that when he ran for president four years ago, he was fighting for the "soul of America," and since that battle continues, he is running for re-election. Biden called the Republican Party's platforms a threat to American freedoms, criticizing what he called "Maja" extremists.
Implications of candidacy
There are many indications of Biden's candidacy for the upcoming presidential elections, and his renewed pledge to achieve the same political goals that he aimed to achieve in his first presidential term, the most prominent of which can be identified through the following points:
1 Potential for repetition of the 2020 scenario
The United States of America may witness in the upcoming presidential elections the same scenario witnessed in the past, when the competition took place between two white candidates in their seventies, as Donald Trump is still the Republican candidate who is the most likely to run in this election, especially as he leads by about 46 points over his Republican rival Ron DeSantis in the latest poll conducted by Emerson College, and he also won the support of more members of Congress.
2 Early step of candidates
Trump announced his candidacy early, to wear the mantle of a presidential candidate to protect him from the issues facing him on the one hand, and to give his campaign more momentum on the other. On the other hand, some analysts indicated that whoever occupies the office of president does not announce his candidacy early (19 months ago) as Biden did, because US presidents run in the vast majority of cases for a second term, as they see that the two presidential terms are only a full entitlement to them, and that it is a shame to leave the office after only one term, as happened with Trump.
3 A favorable race for President Biden
The British newspaper "The Guardian" pushed the increasing chances of the Democratic Party in the upcoming presidential elections, given the chaos and internal division in the Republican Party, which adopts unpopular policies that alienate voters and antagonize society, which means that the possible presidential race between Biden and Trump will turn into a "return match on Biden soil", so that the current president has an advantage over his former counterpart, with Trump's increasing weakness after his name was associated with the anniversary of the storming of Congress, and a number of sex scandals and tax evasion on the one hand, and the absence of a candidate A Democrat beats Biden (including writer Marianne Williamson and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) on the other hand, and Biden's outgoing president's status advantage enables him to use his presidential powers to appeal to voters and present his vision on the third hand.
4 Biden's promotion of his presidential achievements
Biden is demanding a chance to "finish his mission" He even chose to launch his campaign on the fourth anniversary of announcing his previous campaign in 2020, and he preempted the announcement of his official candidacy for the 2024 US presidential election with his State of the Union address last February, in which he listed his achievements that he is likely to focus on in the next presidential race, including: creating 12 million new jobs, reducing unemployment to its lowest level in more than half a century, fighting COVID-19, and co-opting segments social influenced by Trump's approach, and so on.
5 Biden's reliance on his political experience
Biden is counting on having the necessary skills and experience after spending more than half a century in senior positions that qualify him to win again in the 2024 election. He fights for the "spirit of America" against conservatives, and he raised the slogan "Restoring the Spirit of America" when he ran for president four years ago, and he still defends the same slogan, even if he added the file of freedoms to it, pledging to defend rights and freedoms in light of the threats facing them.
Biden's Challenges
Biden's desire to run in pursuit of a second presidential term has raised several questions about the challenges facing him, especially since he will begin his possible second term - if re-elected - at the age of 82, making him the oldest president in the history of the United States, and the most prominent of these challenges can be found in the following points:
1 Opposition to the American public
A recent NBC News poll showed that 70 percent of Americans, and just over half of Democrats, believe Biden should not run again, and another Gallup poll showed that American citizens' satisfaction with President Biden's performance fell to a low of 37 percent. The Associated Press poll conducted in mid-April 2023 showed that age is a major factor among Democratic voters, yet Biden rejected those concerns, saying: "I decided to run. I feel good, I'm excited."
2 Biden's age
Many American voters prefer a candidate younger than Biden. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Biden could die in office if re-elected, so voting for him means counting on Vice President Kamala Harris.
3 Escalating economic challenges
Despite the multiplicity of economic sanctions imposed on the Russian economy and the family and person of President Vladimir Putin, these sanctions have not achieved the desired goals. The magnitude of U.S. aid to Ukraine is $70 billion, with the war protracted in a way that fuels U.S. taxpayers. On the other hand, more than 80 central banks have adopted China's official currency (yuan) in their foreign currency reserves, and China is working to digitize its currency with the aim of breaking the monopoly of the US dollar in the global currency market, in conjunction with the decline in the confidence of a large number of countries in the dollar as the main currency for global trade and finance, which may mean the possibility of gradually turning the global economy away from it.
4 The multiplicity of suspicions surrounding Biden's son
Observers believe that the case of the current president's son, Hunter Biden, will have negative repercussions on his father's candidacy, and may turn into one of the hot issues in the presidential election, especially since NBC News reported that federal prosecutors are considering the issue of charging Hunter with three tax crimes, in addition to accusing him of buying weapons, in addition to some information circulating about his involvement in the issue of secret documents that were in the president's office, and his access to them during his participation in foreign deals that he was convicted of. in them, especially those that linked him to parties in China and Ukraine.
5 Foreign policy flops
The catastrophic withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the fall of billions of dollars worth of US military equipment into the hands of the Taliban, which came to power in the country.
The danger of antagonizing Russia and China at the same time cannot be underestimated.
The Ukraine war has increased the risk of escalating the conflict between Washington and Moscow to unprecedented levels, the current US administration has failed to formulate a counter-strategy to deter Russia, depleting the US arsenal, increasing the risk of nuclear proliferation as China more than triples its stockpile of nuclear warheads to 1500,2035 by <>, and suspending Russia's participation in the New START Treaty on Nuclear Arms Reductions with the United States. and its tendency to strengthen its nuclear capabilities with a new intercontinental ballistic system, hypersonic missiles and new nuclear submarines.
Biden's desire to run for a second term has raised several questions about the challenges facing him, especially as he will begin his possible second term - if re-elected - at the age of 82, making him the oldest president in the history of the United States.
The current U.S. administration has failed to formulate a counter-strategy to deter Russia, depleting the U.S. weapons arsenal and increasing the risk of nuclear proliferation, with China more than tripling its stockpile of nuclear warheads to 1500,2035 by <>.