The way forward for candidate Biden

1 big thing

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

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President Biden announced his 2024 campaign for reelection with a video on Tuesday. Axios' Alex Thompson breaks down what we can expect from Biden’s campaign. Plus, the melting of California’s historic snowpack intensifies. Also, the religion gap between Congress and the American people. And, the life and legacy of Harry Belafonte. Guests: Axios' Alex Thompson, Andrew Freedman and Russell Contreras Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Alexandra Botti, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Fonda Mwangi and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go Deeper: Biden's never-Trump campaign for '24 California's "Big Melt" set to accelerate amid heat wave Our lawmakers are more religious than we are Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Wednesday, April 26th. I'm Naila Moodoo.
0:09.0	Today, the melting of California's historic snowpack intensifies. Plus, the religion gap
0:16.0	between Congress and the American people. But first, the way forward for Candidate Biden
0:21.5	is today's one big thing.
0:27.5	President Biden announced his 2024 campaign for re-election yesterday with a video.
0:32.5	And it started with an image of the riots on January 6th and protesters outside the Supreme Court in support of abortion.
0:39.5	Do you know around the country, Maggie Extremis, are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms?
0:43.5	Cutting social security that you paid for your entire life while cutting taxes from the very wealthy.
0:49.5	Here to break down what we can expect from President Biden's 2024 presidential campaign
0:54.5	is Exxious's national political correspondent Alex Thompson. Hi, Alex. Welcome to Exxious today.
1:00.5	Thank you. My first time.
1:02.5	So President Biden released this video at 6 a.m. yesterday morning. And then what about his day?
1:08.5	Is that announcement in the way he did that or preview for what his campaign is going to look like?
1:13.5	Yes. And that he is basically going to campaign by just being president.
1:17.5	Essentially, you know, last time his campaign because of COVID was sort of mocked as the quote unquote basement campaign.
1:24.5	We're going to see a lot of that same stuff over the next 18 months, except instead of a basement, you're going to have the Rose Garden.
1:30.5	You're going to have the presidential bully pulpit. And he's going to rely on that to try to get his message out.
1:36.5	And also hope that it is a little bit of a contrast with a little bit more of the colorful Republicans that he'll probably be going against.
1:44.5	How much of Biden's campaign will focus on running against Trump?
1:48.5	He is trying to paint the entire Republican party with the Trump brush.
1:53.5	Now in the ad, you heard him say the term Naga extremist. And what you're seeing is that even though Trump isn't the nominee yet, Joe Biden is going to try to say that even Trump isn't the nominee.
2:04.5	This is just a Trump and a different suit.
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