Tuesday 25 April 2023

Octogenarian Biden says four more years please

Finally Biden has officially confirmed he is running for president for another four years from 2024. In one respect he had no choice but to stand again. Had he come today to say he wasn't going to run, his final two years in the White House would have been a total waste of time and energy. He would have a become a lame duck president. Now that he has made it official, it's a relief both for the Democratic party who know for sure what it has to do - pull out all the stops for the sitting president and make sure he doesn't do anything unwise or stupid - and also for the Republican party because now it can concentrate on knocking Biden as often as possible to undermine his chances of beating their candidate. None other than Donald Trump of course. It was always going to be a Biden/Trump rerun. I have felt this for months and months, even while people in the US and elsewhere were saying Biden was too old to be a two-term president. I never had any doubt that Biden would go for it, despite the low rankings he has in opinion polls. His job now is to win to keep Trump out of the White House. That in itself is a challenge so desperately valid and important that surely all sensible American voters whichever way they normally vote will realise they have to vote Democrat in November 2024 to stop the country from going insane and anti-democratic. Trump's campaign cry will be MAGA - Make America Great Again. Biden's should be KTOOTOO - Keep Trump Out of the Oval Office.

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