Headline Roundup • April 25th, 2019
Joe Biden Officially Joins The 2020 Presidential Race
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Wall Street Journal (News)
Former Vice President Joe Biden said he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, launching a third bid for the White House as a blue-collar stalwart in a party hungry to defeat President Trump.
Mr. Biden made his long-awaited announcement Thursday in an online video posted nearly 32 years after he began his first presidential campaign in June 1987.
Mr. Biden announced his candidacy with a three-and-a-half minute online video posted on his social-media accounts. “We are in the battle for the soul of this nation,” Mr. Biden says...

ABC News (Online)
In a video released Thursday morning, former vice president Joe Biden formally announced he's running for president in 2020 -- ending months-long speculation about his intentions.
Biden becomes the 20th Democrat to enter the 2020 race, and enters as a high-profile candidate, with decades of experience.
He will hold his first event as a candidate at a union hall in Pittsburgh on Monday.
Following his formal announcement, Biden's first television interview will take place on ABC's "The View" on Friday.
Biden opened his announcement video quoting from the Declaration of...

Reason
Joe Biden officially announced his presidential bid this morning, promising that he could save the country from Donald Trump and the forces of white supremacy.
"We are in a battle for the soul of this nation," the former vice president says in a video released today, which focuses heavily on 2017's deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. Who we are. I cannot stand by and watch...
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