Joe Biden has made it official. After an awkward lead up, Biden has finally entered the 2020 race.
Watch the video:
President Trump welcomed Biden to the race, and wished him well against his nasty Democrat cohorts.
Welcome to the race Sleepy Joe. I only hope you have the intelligence, long in doubt, to wage a successful primary campaign. It will be nasty – you will be dealing with people who truly have some very sick & demented ideas. But if you make it, I will see you at the Starting Gate!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2019
Other Trump supporters weighed in on “Creepy” Uncle Joe tossing his political hat back in the ring.
Joe Biden has no business running for president again.
Just ask President Obama, who’s chosen *not* to endorse his right-hand man.
Biden has been losing presidential bids for decades – 2020 won’t be any different.
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) April 25, 2019
If Joe Biden wants to keep score:
In 8 years, Biden & Obama had a net loss of 193,000 manufacturing jobs.
In just over 2 years, @realDonaldTrump has created 453,000 manufacturing jobs.
Don’t let Biden take us backwards!
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) April 25, 2019
Joe Biden citing President Trump comments on Charlottesville why he's entering presidential race: "I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had seen in my lifetime."
Other "threats" in Biden's lifetime
WWII
Korean War
Vietnam War
Iraq War
Flu Pandemic 1968
Aids Pandemic— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) April 25, 2019
Joe Biden announces he is running for president. I'm sure this won't haunt his candidacy for the next 18 months.https://t.co/LWqMvnlmDR#Joe2020
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) April 25, 2019
The Democrat Party
Pete: I'm gay. That's it.
Bernie: Terrorists should get to vote.
Kamala: Men are guilty until proved innocent.
Joe Biden: I'm hands on.
Kirsten: I didn't know Harvey entered the race.
Beto: My biggest accomplishment is losing.#JoeBiden
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) April 25, 2019
Congrats to Joe Biden on his 32nd consecutive year of running for President! Here’s to 10 more, Joe!
— Sean Spicier (@sean_spicier) April 25, 2019
The good news for Joe Biden is that he has experience in dropping out of presidential races. #2020Dems pic.twitter.com/mY5skTMT6S
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) April 25, 2019
Joe Biden praising antifa in his campaign announcement video is an unexpected twist
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 25, 2019
Many Democrats are against Sleepy Uncle Joe.
Joe Biden is out-of-touch with the center of energy in the Democratic Party today. pic.twitter.com/CC1RcNIhqU
— Justice Democrats (@justicedems) April 25, 2019
With that said, I believe Joe Biden is the most conservative & problematic candidate now officially in the race.
In the 70s he fought against integration.
In the 80s & 90s he fought harder for mass incarceration than any single Democrat.
In the 2000s he voted for the Iraq War.
— Shaun King (@shaunking) April 25, 2019
https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/1121375798353698817
Intriguing angle taken by Biden in his launch video.
Zero reminder of his experience (longevity), but instead contemporizes his candidacy by framing it around Charlottesville as the defining issue of Trump's presidency and Biden's reason for running.https://t.co/2hycnL94Gx
— David Jolly (@DavidJollyFL) April 25, 2019
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced Thursday that he would seek the Democratic nomination to challenge President Trump in 2020, marshaling his experience and global stature in a bid to lead a party increasingly defined by a younger generation that might be skeptical of his age and ideological moderation.
Mr. Biden, 76, is set to offer himself as a levelheaded leader for a country wracked by political conflict, a rationale he believes could attract a broad cross-section of voters who want to move on from Mr. Trump.
In a three-and-a-half minute video laying out his reasons for running, Mr. Biden chose not to talk about policy issues or his biography but instead began by recalling the white supremacist march through Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 and a counterprotest, and Mr. Trump’s comment that there were “very fine people on both sides.” In that moment, Mr. Biden said, “I knew the threat to our nation was unlike any I’d ever seen in my lifetime.”
“We are in the battle for the soul of this nation,” Mr. Biden said. “I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time. But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are, and I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”
Mr. Trump, in a Twitter post about Mr. Biden on Thursday morning, did not respond to those remarks, but instead lampooned the former vice president as “Sleepy Joe” and derided the Democratic field.
“I only hope you have the intelligence, long in doubt, to wage a successful primary campaign,” he wrote. “It will be nasty — you will be dealing with people who truly have some very sick & demented ideas.”