It once looked like an outside bet, but US President Joe Biden’s bid for a second term is being treated as a given among grassroots Democrats plotting the course to the next election at their winter get-together.
PHILADELPHIA, United States — President Joe Biden was welcomed at a conference of his Democratic Party on Friday with chants of “four more years,” as the Philadelphia crowd voiced strong support for his yet-unannounced reelection bid.
US Senator Chris Coons, a longtime ally of Biden, told AFP he expects a formal announcement “in a few months.” The 46th president was born closer to the end of Abraham Lincoln’s tenure than to the start of his own. “I hear that from time to time, but I don’t hear it as much as you might think,” says Martin, downplaying what could be an easy talking point for Biden’s Republican opponent in the race for the White House.
“I wouldn’t discriminate against somebody because they’re a certain age if they’re advancing an agenda that works,” Pennsylvania state representative Malcolm Kenyatta, nearly 50 years the president’s junior, told AFP.In Philadelphia, the historic cradle of US democracy, opposition to Biden’s putative candidacy came largely from outside the tent.
The simmering controversy over Biden’s retention of classified documents and his insufficiently progressive politics make the incumbent a “non-viable” choice for the Democratic nomination, Rosenthal told AFP.
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