'Let's Finish The Job': Joe Biden, 80, Announces 2024 Presidential Run

In a three-minute video that begins with a one-word pitch, Joe Biden officially launched his re-election pitch: Freedom.

US President Joe Biden.

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Joe Biden, the president of the United States, has confirmed that he will run for re-election in 2024. In a video that was made public on Tuesday morning, exactly four years after he entered the 2020 race, he made it official.

In a three-minute video that begins with a one-word pitch, Joe Biden officially launched his re-election pitch: Freedom.

Biden argues that the defense of democracy, voting rights, abortion rights, and the social safety net will be among the most important issues on the ballot in 2024, narrated by the 46th president of the United States himself.

He asserted that voters will have to decide whether to leave the next generation with "more rights or fewer" or "more freedom or less."

"Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they’ve had to defend democracy, stand up for our personal freedoms, and stand up for our right to vote and our civil rights. This is ours," he wrote on Twitter.

Hearkening back to his 2020 campaign message that Americans were "in a battle for the soul" of their nation, he presents his 2024 slogan: "Let’s finish the job.”

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.

That’s why I’m running for reelection as President of the United States. Join us. Let’s finish the job. https://t.co/V9Mzpw8Sqy pic.twitter.com/Y4NXR6B8ly

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 25, 2023

"When I ran for president four years ago, I said we're in a battle for the soul of America, and we still are," Biden said. "This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for re-election."

"Let's finish this job. I know we can," he said.

In what many regarded as a close race in the most recent election, Democrat Joe Biden defeated Republican leader and former US President Donald Trump. The Democratic party secured 51.3% of the vote in 2020, while the Republican party could manage to get 46.8 per cent. This time as well, Trump, who filled in as president from 2016 to 2020, is running for one more term in the White House.