Joe Biden (Finally) Announces Presidential Campaign
Former Vice President Joe Biden officially joined the standing-room-only crowd of Democratic presidential hopefuls on Thursday, announcing his third run for the White House in a video highlighting his working-class background and decades of experience in national politics as the formula for making Donald Trump a one-term president.
The 76-year-old former senator from Delaware plans to formally kick off his presidential campaign with an appearance at a Pittsburgh union hall on Monday. Biden has made his close ties with union workers a centerpiece of his until-now nascent presidential campaign in recent weeks, joining a picket line of striking grocery store workers in Massachusetts and telling a firefighters union in Washington that the United States “was built by the great American middle class—and unions built that middle class.”
Biden has led early polling of potential Democratic candidates for months, in part due to the name recognition that comes with serving two terms as President Barack Obama’s vice president, and his intention to run has become an open secret in recent weeks.
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