President Joe Biden formally launched his reelection bid Tuesday, naming U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, to his campaign leadership and quickly gaining support from most other Democrats in the Texas congressional delegation.
Trump has been working to shore up his support in Texas as he prepares for a likely primary battle against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Biden, meanwhile, faces a pair of long-shot primary opponents in Marianne Williamson, the self-help author who also ran in 2020, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the prominent vaccine skeptic and nephew of former President John F. Kennedy.
While Biden has not attracted any serious primary opposition, a poll released Sunday found that 51% of Democrats nationally do not want him to run again. Age has fueled some of the resistance — he will be nearly 82 years old at the time of the November 2024 election.of San Antonio, addressed the polling numbers in a CNN interview Sunday.
Among the Texas politicians greeting Biden’s announcement Tuesday was the state’s top Republican, Gov.“Texans — and Americans — can’t afford 4 more years of Biden’s open border policies,” Abbott said in a tweet. Biden also nodded at Texas Democrats in his Tuesday morning announcement video, which featured a brief shot of Texas House Democrats when they decamped to Washington, D.C., in 2021 to lobby for voting-rights legislation. State Rep.of San Antonio, the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, applauded Biden for including the lawmakers, saying Texas is “ground-zero for the fight to protect and preserve our democracy.
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