former US vice-president Joe Biden has announced that he is the presidential candidate of the democratic party and start campaigning.
The 76-year-old Biden, who twice previously sought to be nominated as his party’s presidential nomination was vice president under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.
Before he had a several decades long career in Congress.
His own upbringing in a working class family, has made him popular in the arbejderkredse.
Biden is in front of the 19 other presidential candidates in the democratic party, showed a Reuters/Ipsos poll earlier this week.
the Presidential election will take place in november next year. It is considered very likely that the republican Donald Trump will try to be re-elected as president.
Among the democratic challengers for the presidency are now 20 people. Among them are six women, five colored politicians and a democrat, belonging to a sexual minority.
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