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Spotlight: Joe Biden running for re-election in 2024

Joe Biden announced on Tuesday, April 25, his intention to run for a second term at the head of the United States. © AP/Andrew Harnik

Text by: Margaux Ratayzyk

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In a video posted Tuesday, April 25 on Twitter, US President Joe Biden announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. This decision seems to rejoice the Republican opponents of the Democratic candidate who see it as an "easy target to unite their party," headlines Politico.

But the political daily qualifies: "Republican Party officials are not very optimistic about their chances of winning the White House. [...] But the possibility of being able to talk about Joe Biden rather than all the internal problems of the party makes them crazy with joy," Politico analyzes. The American media evokes in particular "the legal troubles of Donald Trump [...]" and "the disagreements on abortion" or "the war in Ukraine".

For the New York Times, Joe Biden's announcement "defies Trump and history". If the two politicians oppose each other again, it will be "the first time that the same candidates face each other in consecutive presidential elections since 1956, when Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson for the second time," says the New York daily. It would also be "the first time a president has been challenged by his predecessor since Theodore Roosevelt attempted a comeback in 1912 against his designated successor, William Howard Taft, in a three-vote campaign won by Woodrow Wilson."

A different campaign

But for Joe Biden, "this campaign will be very different from any he has led so far," notes the New York Times. His first candidacy in 1988 was well before "the omnipresence of social networks" and "his 2020 campaign was marred by the Covid-19 pandemic," recalls the daily. Above all, points out the New York Times, the incumbent president, once elected in 2020, had promised to be a "bridge" between two generations of Democratic leaders. In other words, he would serve only one term. However, today, the succession is not assured. No candidate, according to Joe Biden, is needed to succeed him. So the president decided to forget his promise.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido 'forced' to leave Colombia

Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Guaido was expelled from Colombia last night. According to the Colombian government, he had arrived "irregularly" in the territory to attend an international conference on Venezuela, including dialogue between the government and the opposition. Juan Guaido was not invited to this summit.

The case is divisive, El Espectador points out. According to Juan Guaido's supporters, it was the Colombian government that forced the Venezuelan opponent to leave the territory. But the country's authorities deny it, El Espectador points out: "This is not an expulsion, but a departure resulting from a mutual agreement with the leader of the opposition," says a government source to the Colombian daily.

"The expulsion has nothing to do with the figure of Juan Guaido"

In fact, the government denies having "chartered a plane" to transfer the opponent to Miami, in the United States, adds El Carabobeño, a Venezuelan newspaper.

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Juan Guaido's arrival in Colombia has sparked unease in the Colombian government El Espectador continues. The daily stresses that his expulsion "has nothing to do with the figure of Juan Guaido as such, according to the government, but rather with the fact that only representatives of international delegations were invited to the meeting," and that "neither the government nor the Venezuelan opposition will be present."

United States: the Fox News channel separates from Tucker Carlson, its star conservative host

The Fox News channel announced Monday that it is parting ways with its star host, the very conservative Tucker Carlson. The American media did not cite an official reason, but this dismissal is part of a turbulent context for Fox News. On April 18, the channel was forced to pay nearly $800 million to avoid a defamation lawsuit over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election.

But according to the Washington Post, the ouster of Tucker Carlson would not be entirely due to these legal turmoil: "The link is not entirely obvious" because the star presenter was "far from being at the center of the case," says the daily. "He was responsible for only one of the 20 incriminated broadcasts."

Accused of "manhandling" a producer of the channel

For the Los Angeles Times, "it is possible that his dismissal has more to do with a discrimination complaint filed by a producer fired by the network." Among other things, she claims to have been "bullied" by Tucker Carlson and to have been the subject of "anti-Semitic comments". Fox News therefore fears that it will still have to get its hands on the wallet with this new case. "The next Tucker Carlson will not have to tell the truth to keep the throne," concludes the Californian newspaper, but only to "avoid becoming a financial ball".

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