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		</div><p>Former US vice president Joe Biden has formally joined the crowded Democratic presidential contest, declaring the soul of the nation at stake if President Donald Trump wins re-election.</p>
<p>In a video posted on Twitter, Mr Biden focused on the 2017 deadly clash between white supremacists and counter protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.</p>
<p>Mr Biden noted Mr Trump’s comments that there were some “very fine people” on both sides of the violent encounter, which left one woman dead.</p>
<p><em>“We are in the battle for the soul of this nation,”</em> Mr Biden said.</p>
<p><em>“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.</em></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The core values of this nation… our standing in the world… our very democracy&#8230;everything that has made America &#8212; America &#8211;is at stake. That’s why today I’m announcing my candidacy for President of the United States. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Joe2020?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Joe2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/jzaQbyTEz3">https://t.co/jzaQbyTEz3</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1121353260231688192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><em>“And I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”</em></p>
<p>The 76-year-old Mr Biden becomes an instant front-runner alongside Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, who is leading many polls and has proved to be a successful fundraiser.</p>
<p>Among Democrats, Mr Biden has unmatched international and legislative experience, and he is among the best-known faces in US politics.</p>
<p>He quickly racked up endorsements on Thursday morning, becoming the first Democrat running for president with the backing of more than one US senator.</p>
<p>Still, Mr Biden must compete in a field that now spans at least 20 Democrats and has been celebrated for its racial and gender diversity.</p>
<p>As an older white man with occasionally centrist views, Mr Biden has to prove he’s not out of step with his party.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joe Biden has no business running for president again.</p>
<p>Just ask President Obama, who’s chosen *not* to endorse his right-hand man.</p>
<p>Biden has been losing presidential bids for decades – 2020 won’t be any different.</p>
<p>&mdash; Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1121218637057208321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>He is betting that his working-class appeal and ties to Barack Obama’s presidency will help him overcome those questions.</p>
<p>Mr Biden has said he would campaign as an “Obama-Biden Democrat”, who is as pragmatic as he is progressive.</p>
<p>Just minutes after the announcement, the Republicans lashed out against Mr Biden’s record in the Obama administration, a line of attack in sharp contrast with recent criticism against other 2020 Democrats that has largely focused on them being too liberal, or even socialists.</p>
<p><em>“Biden’s fingerprints are all over foreign policy blunders and the weakest economic recovery since World War II,”</em> Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said.</p>
<p><em>“We don’t need eight more years of Biden. Just ask President Obama, who isn’t even endorsing his right-hand man.”</em></p>
<p>While it is true that Mr Obama has not explicitly endorsed Mr Biden’s bid, the former president took the unusual step of weighing in on Thursday’s announcement through a spokeswoman.</p>
<p><em>“President Obama has long said that selecting Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008 was one of the best decisions he ever made,”</em> Obama spokeswoman Katie Hill said.</p>
<p><em>“He relied on the vice president’s knowledge, insight, and judgment throughout both campaigns and the entire presidency.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Privately, Trump allies have warned that Biden might be the biggest re-election threat given the former vice president’s potential appeal among the white working class in the Midwest, the region that gave Mr Trump a path to the presidency.</p>
<p>Mr Biden is paying special attention to Pennsylvania, a state that swung to Mr Trump in 2016 after voting for Democratic presidential candidates for decades.</p>
<p>The former vice president will be in the state three times within the opening weeks of his campaign.</p>
<p>He will be in Philadelphia on Thursday evening headlining a fundraiser at the home of David L. Cohen, executive senior vice president of Comcast.</p>
<p>Mr Biden is aiming to raise 500,000 dollars at the event.</p>
<p>He will hold an event in Pittsburgh on Monday and will return to Philadelphia in the next two weeks for a major rally.</p>
<p>He is scheduled to make his first media appearance as a 2020 presidential contender Friday morning on ABC’s The View, a move that may help him make an appeal to women whose support will be crucial to winning the primary.</p>
<p>As he neared his campaign launch, Mr Biden’s challenges have come into greater focus.</p>
<p>He struggled last month to respond to claims that he touched 2014 Nevada lieutenant governor nominee Lucy Flores’ shoulders and kissed the back of her head before a fall campaign event.</p>
<p>A handful of other women have made similar claims, though none has alleged sexual misconduct.</p>
<p>Mr Biden, a former US senator from Delaware, pledged in an online video to be “much more mindful” of respecting personal space but joked two days later that he “had permission” to hug a male union leader before addressing the group’s national conference.</p>
<p>Mr Biden also has been repeatedly forced to explain his 1991 decision, as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, to allow Anita Hill to face difficult questions from an all-male panel about allegations of sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, who later was confirmed to the high court.</p>
<p>He has since apologised for his role in the hearing.</p>
<p>But in the #MeToo era, particularly after the contentious confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the episode remains a significant political liability.</p>
<p>Likewise, Mr Biden once played a key role in anti-crime legislation that had a disproportionately negative impact on African Americans.</p>
<p>And while several 2020 Democratic contenders have embraced the possibility of reparations to African Americans for slavery in recent weeks, Mr Biden last month struggled to explain comments he made as a freshman senator in 1975 about the school bus debate.</p>
<p>His first White House bid in 1988 ended after a plagiarism scandal.</p>
<p>He dropped out of the 2008 race after earning less than 1% of the vote in the Iowa caucuses.</p>
<p>Later that year, Mr Obama named Mr Biden as his running mate.</p>
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