Mr Biden, already the oldest president in American history, would be 86 by the end of a second term.
. The 76-year-old is the overwhelming favourite for the Republican nomination.
“Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms. I believe this is ours,” he wrote on Twitter, accompanying a three-minute announcement video. “Joe Biden is not popular, but the Republicans are sort of seen as extreme, at least Donald Trump's faction of the Republican Party,” Mr Coleman, a political cartographer, told CNA’s Asia First on Wednesday.
Prof Flake noted that Mr Biden has had a “very effective” first two years in charge, defying initial expectations, but things are slower now after the GOP regained control of the US House of Representatives in the midterm elections. Trump, despite being the first sitting or former US president to be criminally indicted, launched his bid last November to regain the presidency.
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