The 2024 US election

The 2024 US election  

Joe Biden is running for president in 2024  

Joe Biden is running for re-election in the 2024 presidential election. He announces this in a video on Twitter.  

"Let's finish the job," he says. The long-awaited announcement comes four years after his campaign launched in 2019, according to ABC. According to information, his campaign began already after the Republicans took power in the House of Representatives  

Donald Trump/Joe Biden. 

Analysis: Two seniors with similar messages as 2020- in extremely polarized USA  

US President Joe Biden's announcement that he is running for re-election in 2024 comes under what would normally be described as very unfavorable circumstances, writes CNN's Stephen Collinson in an analysis.  

Biden's trust figures are low, the country is exhausted by successive crises with a pandemic and sky-high inflation. In addition, polls show that a majority of voters do not want him to run again, while the country seems to want to avoid a new battle between him and Donald Trump.  

And just like in 2020, Biden's re-election campaign seems to be about Trump's threat to democracy, Collinson writes.  

According to Ekot's USA commentator Ginna Lindberg, Biden will paint a strongly polarized USA where he believes that the Republican Party has been kidnapped by right-wing forces. In addition, it looks like he may meet Trump, adds Lindberg. 

- This means that we have two senior candidates running with similar messages as in 2020 in a political landscape that is extremely polarized and charged where there is basically no political center anymore.  

Biden. Andrew Harnik/AP  

The Republicans after Biden's message: "Out of touch"  

The Republican Party accuses US President Joe Biden of being "out of touch" after today's announcement that he is running for re-election in next year's presidential election. AFP writes.  

"Biden is so clueless that after creating crisis after crisis, he thinks he deserves another four years," the party's national committee wrote in a statement. 

The committee lists a number of areas that they believe will worsen if Biden is re-elected - including that inflation will skyrocket, crime will increase and more fentanyl will cross the US's open borders.  

According to Axios, the committee responded to Biden's announcement with an AI-generated film showing footage from a dystopian future in which he and Vice President Kamala Harris have been re-elected.