Former Vice President Biden likely to announce presidential run next week
Hindustan TimesFormer Vice-President Joe Biden is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, according to a news report. This will be Joe Biden’s third shot at the US presidency, failing to clear the primaries in both the earlier attempts. Biden will make the announcement in a video message, The Atlantic news publication reported on Friday citing people who had been told by top aides to the former vice-president. The former vice-president, who has been in politics for more than 40 years, is expected to present himself as a calm, experienced and stable alternative to the mercurial President Trump, whose White House has struggled to shake off a persisting perception of a place in a continuing state of chaos, an impression reinforced by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report released on Thursday.