Joe Biden will announce next week he is running for president, likely grabbing pole position in a crowded Democratic field eager to take on President Donald Trump in 2020, US media reported Friday. Biden, the veteran politico who has sought the White House twice before and served as Barack Obama’s vice president, will make it official with a video to be released Wednesday, according to several outlets. NBC News and other American media reported that the longtime Delaware senator’s decision was all but a formality — after he sat out 2016 as he mourned the death of his son Beau from cancer. Several strategists see Biden as the down-to-earth Democrat with star power who connects with working-class voters like those who abandoned Hillary Clinton for Trump in 2016. Biden has been leading in other polls too in recent days.

Source: Punch April 19, 2019 15:45 UTC