There has been a lot of chatter over whether or not former Vice President Joe Biden would put his name in the running for the 2020 Democratic race.
On Thursday, April 25, 2019, he made it official.
At 6 AM, Eastern Time, he tweeted out his announcement alongside a video titled “America Is An Idea.”
This will be his third attempt for the candidacy, after previous campaigns in 1988 and 2008.
He begins the video by quoting the Declaration of Independence before turning his attention to why he feels it’s in danger now.
Specifically, he points to the events in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 and how President Trump’s response proved that we were now in a “battle for the soul of this nation.”
Biden doesn’t mince words.
“He said there were quote some very fine people on both sides. With those words, the President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.”
He believes that another four years of Trump may destroy what America has built.
“The core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that has made America, America, is at stake. That’s why today I’m announcing my candidacy for President of the United States.”
Biden will appear on The View Friday morning for his first interview following the announcement.
Opinions are mixed as to whether Biden has the best chance of defeating Trump or if recent scandals have marred him, but in a poll conducted April 24, then-potential candidate Biden was ahead of all of his Democratic rivals and President Trump.
