He hesitated for a long time, but now he has decided: With a video message, Joe Biden has declared his candidacy for the U.S. presidency. The 76-Year-old, who was among Barack Obama’s eight years as Vice-President, is one of around 20 politicians who apply to the Nomination of the Democratic party. It is after 1988 and 2008 already the third Time that Biden wants to be elected to the White house, and in the first two candidacies, he stayed out of the game.
this Time Biden starts as a favorite: most of The polls show him currently in front of his democratic competitors, which explain some of the fact that he is after nearly four decades in politics, much more well known than most of the other Democrats . Biden’s first appearance in the election campaign is scheduled for next week in Pennsylvania, one of those States of the Middle West, which lost the Democrats in the last presidential election, Donald Trump. Then he could spend some time in the pre-election States of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, where many of its competitors have been weeks on the road.
The party’s internal primaries, the Democrats begin in February 2020 and last until June. At the latest, at the national Convention in July 2020 and will then be fixed, who do the Democrats in the main election in November to send against Trump into the race. (Tages-Anzeiger.ch/Newsnet)
Created: 25.04.2019, 12:03 PM