President Biden is diving back in formerly announcing he'll seek a second term in the 2024 election in a campaign video released early this morning the president asked voters to give him more time to finish the job President Biden now Begins the Battle of convincing the public his work in the White House merits another four years and that his age won't affect his ability to hold the office a recent poll taken prior to the announcement from the Associated Press norc Center for public affairs research finds only about half of Democrats think he should run again in 2024 but a large majority would support him as the nominee the decision puts President Biden on the path to a potential rematch with former president Donald Trump whom he beat in 2020 but this election will play out in a nation that's even more politically polarized senior political correspondent David Cruz reports that's why I'm running for reelection I know America in case you were wondering the president made it official today although there was little doubt that Biden would run again there was and is some doubt about whether he should even among fellows Democrats almost half of whom say they'd be okay with someone else in the party running you're right there are Democrats who would like to see a change they're not going to get it um you know the Democratic party is firmly in control of the White House the incumbent president as it always is as it was four years ago for Trump and so um whether Democrats like the choice that they're going to have or Republicans like the choice that they're going to have um that is going to be where we stand so all things being equal Democrats and Republicans will have to be ready to hold their noses and pull the lever for Biden or likely Donald Trump Democratic strategist Julie roginski though says Biden has a real record to run on I don't want to start ticking off these huge programs other than to say they're having massively tangible results it's not just to say a billion here a trillion there and look at all the spending I mean if you have diabetes and you're somebody who's of Medicare age you no longer have to worry about the cost of insulin I mean that's a real tangible effect if you're driving down a highway in New Jersey or even a local Road in New Jersey that road that's busted of your tire over and over and over again is now paved thanks to money that's come out of this Administration these are really tangible results that matter but Biden is 80. already our oldest president ever and has seemed to show his age on occasion stumbling verbally and sometimes physically Republican strategist Chris Russell says it's something voters have noticed and don't expect to get any better over the next year and a half leading up to election day I don't think it's age at least it isn't for me but it's it's when you look at somebody and you you have to believe are they there all the time and I don't think he's there all the time and I think a lot of others look at the same way he has that kind of glassy look he looks a little lost the the constant images of him kind of going the wrong way off of the stage so I think age is a number uh and certainly the older one gets the more concerned there is about that yeah can can you do that job could I do my job at 80. well yeah I have colleagues who are in their 80s and and they're fine professors if you were to ask them would they be better would they uh have more do they have more energy when they were 50 or 40 yeah I think they tell you honestly of course but we're not talking about you know teaching college we're talking about the president of the United States so uh yeah I think both Trump and Biden are probably too old uh for what is best granted there's a solid year and a half before the polls open and age will be only one issue and likely by then not even the biggest says roginski it's our democracy that's on the ballot when you see books being banned when you see voting rights being curtailed when bodily autonomy for women is being curtailed that's not just about a political philosophy anymore that's about something much more Sinister and something that I think we haven't seen in this country and certainly my lifetime and I'm not sure in anybody's lifetime but his own party's enthusiasm for him is not there that's not a good sign Independence look at that Republicans who may not be wanting to vote for the Republican nominee look at that and say man if his own people don't want him why don't wait Biden has been counted out before from the party primaries in 2020 to election night of that year the next election day is November 5th 2024. have you got 18 months of patience for what promises to be a historically contentious election you're about to find out I'm David Cruz NJ Spotlight news [Music]