Biden vs Trump in the battle for America?
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Former US Vice President Joe Biden, a moderate who has made his appeal to working-class voters who deserted the Democrats in 2016 a key part of his political identity, launched a bid for the White House yesterday as the party鈥檚 instant frontrunner.
Biden announced the third presidential bid of his career by video on YouTube and other social media, drawing a stark contrast between himself and US President Donald Trump in a contest he said was a fight for the future of American democracy.
鈥淲e are in the battle for the soul of this nation,鈥 he said. 鈥淚 believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time. 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 let that happen.鈥
Trump responded in a post on Twitter, slamming Biden鈥檚 鈥渋ntelligence鈥 and vowing to meet him 鈥渁t the Starting Gate鈥 if the Democrat wins his party鈥檚 鈥渘asty鈥 nomination fight.
Biden, 76, had been wrestling for months over whether to run. His candidacy will face numerous questions, including whether he is too old and too centrist for a Democratic Party yearning for fresh faces and increasingly propelled by its more vocal liberal wing.
Biden starts as leader of the pack in opinion polls of a Democratic field of 20 contenders seeking a chance to challenge Trump, the likely Republican nominee, in November 2020.
Critics said his standing in polls is largely a function of name recognition for the former US senator from Delaware, whose more than four decades in public service includes eight years as President Barack Obama鈥檚 No. 2 in the White House.
Obama鈥檚 spokeswoman Katie Hill said in a statement that Obama has long said selecting Biden to be his running mate in 2008 was one of the best decisions he ever made. The statement fell short of a formal endorsement but said Obama relied on Biden鈥檚 insight, knowledge and judgment through both election campaigns and his entire presidency.
Biden will travel across the country in the coming weeks.
On May 18, he will hold a rally in Philadelphia to 鈥渓ay out his vision for unifying America with respected leadership on the world stage鈥 and dignified leadership at home,鈥 it said.
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