The current President of the United States is running for re-election for a second term. A symbolic date four years to the day after his last campaign start in 2019.

End of the suspense. Joe Biden announced on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 that he would seek a second term in 2024, sweeping away concerns about his age. “I’m running for re-election,” the 80-year-old U.S. president said in a video post on Twitter.

“Let’s finish the job,” said Biden, stressing the ongoing fight for freedom and democracy, he said.

Tuesday’s date is far from trivial. It marks the fourth anniversary, to the day, of Joe Biden’s last campaign, when the Democrat fought for the “soul of America”, and deprived Donald Trump of a second term. If the polls are confirmed, a “remake” of the duel between the two men is emerging. After its announcement, the Republican Party accused US President Joe Biden of being “disconnected”. “Biden is so out of touch with reality that he thinks he deserves four more years in power when all he does is create crises,” said party leader Ronna McDaniel.

Blamed for age by opposition
The President is scheduled to speak on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 on what is likely to be one of his main themes as a candidate: how to bring back “manufacturing jobs” to the United States and “rebuild the middle class”.

Since the beginning of the year, Joe Biden has been hammering away at his desire to restore his «dignity» to the «forgotten» popular America, disturbed by globalization, which Donald Trump was able to seduce in part.

The White House tenant may think he has the statistics with him: American presidents usually represent themselves, and they are most often re-elected. But Biden, by his age, defies historical precedents. If re-elected, he would finish his second term at the age of 86.

In November 2021 and again in February 2023, the leader underwent health check-ups which concluded that he was in “good health”. But he, who is already prone to blunders and whose pace is undeniably marked by years, is exposed to a resurgence of attacks by republicans on his mental acuity.

Biden’s endurance, however, was unusual, juggling international crises and major reforms. His move to Kiev, an unprecedented initiative for the head of state surrounded by the strictest security apparatus in the world, dramatically recalled his role as architect of the Western response after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Trump slams Biden’s balance sheet
He also noted that, according to polls, the candidacy of his predecessor Donald Trump, 76 years old and charged by a New York court, is no more enthusiastic than his own.

The Democrat believes that if he has beaten once his Republican predecessor, the most divisive figure, he can do it again by highlighting his personality and his unifying program.

Anticipating an announcement by his rival, Donald Trump on Monday criticized the current president’s record. “You could take the five worst presidents in American history, and together they wouldn’t have done as much damage to our country as Joe Biden did in just a few years,” the Republican billionaire said in a statement.

Still a big unknown: what would Joe Biden’s chances be if he faced a younger opponent in November 2024?

The name of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a 44-year-old rising star of the hard right, is widely circulated. But it has not yet declared itself.

Less known, Republican Nikki Haley, already in the campaign, calls for the emergence of a «new generation». In particular, it calls for intellectual capacity tests for all political leaders over the age of 75.