Declaring that the “battle for the soul of America” he launched four years ago is ongoing, President Joe Biden said Tuesday he will seek reelection because “it is not time to be complacent.”
“Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they’ve had to defend democracy, stand up for our personal freedoms, and stand up for our right to vote and our civil rights,” Biden said in a three-minute video announcement. “This is ours. Let’s finish the job.”
The video used images of the Jan. 6., 2021, attack on the Capitol and of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., as Biden repeated themes he has stressed in official appearances in recent months, referring to Republicans as “MAGA extremists” who are lining up to cut Social Security to provide tax cuts for “the very wealthy.”
