Biden's age makes his re-election bid a historic and risky gamble for the Democratic Party.
New Delhi:
US
President Joe Biden announced today he will seek a second term in 2024,
plunging at the record age of 80 into a campaign that could set up a
rematch against Donald Trump.
He launched his pitch in a video
released by his new campaign team, in which he declares it is his job to
defend American democracy. Biden said he was still fighting to save
American democracy from Republican "extremists."
"When I ran for
president four years ago, I said we're in a battle for the soul of
America, and we still are," Biden said. "Let's finish this job. I know
we can," he added.
Challenges in front of Biden as he seeks a second White House term in 2024:
Biden's Age
Biden's
age makes his re-election bid a historic and risky gamble for the
Democratic Party, which faces a tough election map to hold the Senate in
2024 and is the minority in the House of Representatives now.
Biden
is the oldest person to have occupied the White House and would be 86
at the end of a second four-year term. Sixty-one per cent of registered
Democrats in a poll said he was too old to work in government.
Doctors
declared Biden, who does not drink alcohol and exercises five times a
week, "fit for duty" after an examination in February. The White House
says his record shows that he is mentally sharp enough for the rigors of
the job.
High Inflation
Even though Biden
oversaw the lowest levels of unemployment since 1969, a 40-year high in
inflation has marred his economic record.
Data showed inflation
slowed for a ninth straight month in March to 5.0 percent, income was
rising and demand for workers remains strong, with unemployment at just
3.5 percent.
The White House says massive federal investments on
infrastructure, climate change and high-tech sectors like semiconductor
manufacturing has already ignited an economic rebirth.
But the recession and renewed inflation remain real threats.
US Alliances
"America is back," the Biden administration told the world on day one.
The
pledge was to restore alliances strained by Trump's unilateralism.
Biden made a quick start, with a focus on face-to-face diplomacy and
emphasizing US commitment to NATO and key Asian allies South Korea,
Japan and Australia.
He fulfilled a pledge to end the 20-year US
war in Afghanistan, but the humiliating exit and Taliban triumph hurt
the administration's standing at home and abroad.
There was also a
diplomatic hiccup when Australia abruptly scrapped a deal for French
submarines in favour of a US nuclear-powered version, prompting Paris
briefly to recall its ambassador to Washington.
Biden, however, has received plaudits for his handling of the crisis in Ukraine and for uniting NATO.
Relations
with rival superpower China are as rocky as they were under Trump but
Biden is trying to walk a diplomatic high wire that he describes as
"competition, not conflict."
Guns
An
executive order sought to curb untraceable "ghost guns" and Congress
enacted a bipartisan law restricting gun access to people deemed
dangerous. However, Biden's plea to ban so-called assault weapons often
used in mass shootings has gone nowhere.
Immigration
Biden has also struggled on the issue of illegal immigration.
He
stopped the Trump project to build a wall on the Mexico border but with
Congress unable to agree on legislative changes, he is mostly powerless
to reform what he says is a "broken" system.
A new scheme to
force asylum seekers to apply in US embassies in their own countries
appears to be tamping down illegal border crossings but is controversial
among liberal voters.
Low Approval Ratings
Biden's approval ratings have not topped 50 per cent for more than a year and a half.
However,
he has consistently over-delivered when it matters. Supporters say the
Democratic Party's surprisingly strong performance in the 2022 midterm
congressional elections validated the Biden brand.
And while Biden
may seem bland in comparison to Trump, he is banking on his moderate,
old-fashioned image being the secret weapon needed in an increasingly
extreme era.
Biden beat Trump in 2020 by winning the Electoral
College 306 to 232. He won the swing states of Pennsylvania and Georgia,
and he bested Trump by more than 7 million votes nationally, capturing
51.3 per cent of the popular vote to the Republican's 46.8 per cent.
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