“I have already told them that I am planning to present myself. I will let them know very soon,” he said on Monday when asked by the press at the White House.
The president, who at 80 is the oldest president in the history of the United States, has been saying for months that he intends to run for re-election.
When he was visiting Ireland on April 14, he already said the announcement would come “relatively soon” when asked by journalists.
And a few days earlier, on April 10, Biden targeted an NBC reporter who planned to run in the election but was not yet ready to officially announce it.
Why Tuesday?
Tuesday is not a random date, it is just four years after Joe Biden’s entry into the campaign that gave him victory over Republican Donald Trump, with whom he could fight again at the polls in 2024.
There are no campaign events planned on Biden’s agenda for this Tuesday. The president will, however, deliver a speech before a union on a topic that may become an electoral axis: restoring “dignity” to the “forgotten” popular United States, the same one that Trump seduced years ago.
In the evening, the President and First Lady Jill Biden will visit the Korean War Memorial in Washington along with their South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee at the start of a state visit that it will give you the opportunity to talk about foreign policy.