well, the stage is now set for a potential presidential rematch. president biden has officially launched his re-election bid. he says the battle for the nation s soul as he s described it is not over, and he s ready to take on so-called maga extremists. and a new threat in war torn sudan. one of the warring factions seizing a laboratory in khartoum. samples of polio, measles, and cho cholera potentially exposed. and officials are warning a germ bomb could be released on the already devastated capital city. and parts of the midwest could see the worst flooding in 20 years here in the coming days. earlier than expected snow melt is pushing the mississippi river closer to cresting in parts of iowa, minnesota, and wisconsin. what this means for some of the major crops that americans depend on from those areas. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. four years to the day after he launched his 2020 president
it s done. dana: a big tease for quite a while. president biden made the announcement in a video released early this morning and some of the slogans from his last campaign and attacked so-called maga republicans and implores voters to help him finish the job. president biden: when i ran for president four years ago i said we re in the battle for the soul of america. we still are. the question we re facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer. this is not a time to be complacent and why i m running for re-election. around the country maga extremist are lining up to cut social security that you paid for your entire life while culting taxes for the wealthy. dictating what healthcare decisions women can make. banning books and telling people who they can love all while making it more difficult for you to be able to vote. this is our moment. bill: it s part of the 3:02 release today. the president going ahead with his campa
secretary karine jean-pierre coming up in the next hour. the president launching his campaign in a three-minute video promising to finish the job in a second term in the white house. sandra: the president will need to win over voters concerned about his age, 80 years old, as well as the millions of americans tired of stubbornly high prices and filling up gas tanks a daunting task for two straight years now. john: fox team coverage begins now, charles payne is standing by, but first peter doocy, live in wilmington, delaware, and peter, what is the biden team s early strategy in the campaign rollout? john, we have been in touch with president biden s campaign team and they are telling us the early strategy is just to let the president be the president. so official duties over campaign stops, and we are seeing that, these remarks going on in washington, d.c., he has not even mentioned the re-election. it s a lot of stock lines that we have heard before like this one. i l
serious foreign policy challenges from china to russia to ukraine and a sputtering economy here at home. his poll numbers are not good. even a majority of democrats tell pollsters he should not run for a second term. but the campaign is launched. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. the president hasn t yet commented on his own re-election bid. reporters weren t allowed close enough today to ask. and officials wouldn t weigh in on what factored into his decision-making citing the hatch act. but the white house calculus seems to be that biden can win voter support in 2024 the same way did he in 2020. with a campaign that happens mostly online. >it s time to finish the job. finish the job. the president s first audience since announcing re-election bid giving a warm election. [chanting four more years] but this campaign isn t shaping up to be about what biden has but
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