Biden launches marketing campaign for US presidential election

Joe Biden begins his campaign for the USA presidential election on Saturday

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The 80-12 months-antique seemed earlier than around 2,000 union individuals in Pennsylvania. The state is a contested “swing nation”.

US President Joe Biden started out the marketing campaign for re-election in the historically contested state of Pennsylvania on Saturday. “When I ran for president, I told you I could have your lower back, and I did,” the 80-yr-old told an target market of round 2,000 union individuals in the capital, Philadelphia. “But you also had my back.”

Republicans “are after your jobs,” the Democrat warned his audience approximately the competition. The President’s appearances at alternate union occasions show how crucial he considers worker representatives to be for the second one time period he's striving for. Biden is being hailed by means of union bosses because the maximum seasoned-union president in records. He reversed the weakening of hard work protections brought by his Republican predecessor Donald Trump.

Pennsylvania subjects to Biden

Pennsylvania is one of the so-known as “swing states” wherein there is no clean majority for Republicans or Democrats. The metal and coal industries play a first-rate position right here, the population is 80 percent white and family incomes are beneath the country wide common. Biden won a slim victory in Pennsylvania within the last presidential election.

In the us, the President, a 3rd of the Senate and the whole House of Representatives could be re-elected at the beginning of November 2024. In the months earlier than, internal party primary elections are held, in which the applicants for the actual vote are decided on.

While Biden has up to now been unequalled on the Democrat facet, a selection remains pending among the Republicans. According to the modern-day Reuters/Ipsos polls, Trump is definitely beforehand of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. All different applicants are actually defeated.