After months of teasing, President Joe Biden is expected finally to announce his bid for a second term Tuesday, defying lukewarm polls and, at 80, boldly pushing what was once considered age boundaries for one of the planet’s most stressful jobs.
“Stay tuned,” Biden told reporters at the White House.
Neither the White House, the Democratic Party nor the president himself have confirmed he will announce but multiple US media reports, citing unnamed sources, say the move will come early Tuesday in a video address.
“I’ll let you know real soon,” Biden told reporters when asked about an announcement.
The date would fall exactly four years after Biden announced his candidacy for the 2020 election in which he defeated Donald Trump. That too was made in the low-key format of a video, as was Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign announcement.
By contrast, Trump formally launched his bid for a second term in 2019 at one of his signature…