President Joe Biden's entry into the race follows former President Donald Trump's announcement in November that he would seek a second term after losing the 2020 election to Mr. Biden.
In a statement about President Biden's candidacy, Mr. Trump criticized his rival's positions on immigration, inflation and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"American families are being wracked by the worst inflation in half a century. Banks are failing," former President Trump said on his social media platform. "We surrendered our energy independence, just as we surrendered Afghanistan," he said.
As the incumbent, President Biden is unlikely to face stiff competition from within his own party. No senior Democratic official has signaled that he will challenge him, and he has assembled a group of up-and-coming Democrats to serve as advisers to his campaign, including governors JB Pritzker of Illinois and Josh Shapiro of Washington. Pennsylvania.
Potential Republican candidates and those who have already announced their candidacy have focused their rhetoric for the 2024 election on reducing government spending, while inflation remains high, on abortion restrictions, and on the crime rate in Democratic-led cities and to illegal immigration.
The two top Republicans, former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, want to limit transgender children's access to sports teams and medical services for gender reassignment, as well as limiting the ways schools include LGBTQ+ community issues in teaching, history of slavery in America and racial inequality.
Former President Trump's trial begins today in the civil suit filed against him by writer E. Jean Carroll, who accuses him of rape in the changing rooms of a clothing store in the mid-1990s.
The former president, who is under no obligation to appear during the trial, has denied the allegations, calling Ms Carroll 'mentally ill' for making up the rape allegation to attract attention to the sale of one of her books.