Biden announces reelection bid, saying battle for nation’s soul isn’t complete

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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President Joe Biden formally announced his bid for reelection despite low approval ratings and questions about his age. Biden’s decision to run for President again could set up a rematch with his 2020 rival, former President Trump. Evan Osnos is a CNN Contributor and has written a biography of Biden. He tells Anderson Cooper if he thinks the President touting his legislative wins will hurt him as he seeks another four years in the White House.

Plus, former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, who has accused Tucker Carlson and the network of creating a hostile work environment, spoke out for the first time since he was fired. Media critic David Zurawik joins AC360 to discuss whether Grossberg’s allegations had anything to do with Fox’s decision to let the former host go.

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0:00.0	Good evening and so it begins.
0:03.2	Four years the day after he entered the 2020 race with a video condemning the former president's
0:07.2	comments after white supremacist rally in Virginia, President Joe Biden today announced
0:11.8	he is running for a second term.
0:13.6	He appeared in a video released this morning saying, we still are in a fight for the
0:18.0	soul of the nation.
0:19.3	He spoke about the need to, in his words, defend democracy and repeatedly spoke of the need
0:23.7	to stand up for what he termed personal freedom.
0:26.8	This time, not just against the extremism of a former president who hopes to retake the
0:30.5	White House, but a Republican party the president believes is enabled by him.
0:36.4	That's been the work of my first term to fight for our democracy.
0:40.3	This shouldn't be a red revolution.
0:43.8	To protect our rights, to make sure that everyone in this country is treated equally, and
0:47.7	that everyone is given a fair shot at making it.
0:52.6	But you know, around the country, Maggar extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock
0:56.4	freedoms.
0:57.4	Cutting social security that you paid for your entire life while cutting taxes from
1:01.6	the very wealthy.
1:02.6	Dictating what health care decisions women can make.
1:05.3	Banting books and telling people who they can love, all I'm making it more difficult
1:10.6	for you to be able to vote.
1:13.0	Well later in the day, President Biden appeared before a group of trade union members,
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