Former President Barack Obama was quick to shared President Joe Biden‘s official announcement that he’s running for POTUS in 2024, with Obama adding his own comments about Biden’s accomplishments so far and how he thinks things will go.
“Proud of all that @JoeBiden and his administration have accomplished these last few years,” Obama wrote. “He’s delivered for the American people — and he’ll continue to do so once he’s re-elected.”
Obama added, in a sentence especially notable for its first person plural, “Let’s get to work!”
Proud of all that @JoeBiden and his administration have accomplished these last few years. He’s delivered for the American people — and he’ll continue to do so once he’s re-elected.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 25, 2023
Let’s get to work! https://t.co/eEt7bAueIT https://t.co/uBMyS1QQ0V
Obama, who governed with Biden as his Vice President for eight years, figures to be a powerful campaign resource for Biden, who will run a very different, more in-person retail campaign this time — the kind of campaign that wasn’t possible during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden also plans to put the power of his incumbency to work, and Obama amplifies that power as the politician most closely associated with Biden and one who has never lost a presidential election.
Obama was considered instrumental in the successful Democratic push to get out the vote during the 2022 midterms, memorably jumping into a Biden video and encouraging Dems to go to the polls. Those elections saw Trump-backed candidates, stand-ins for Biden’s likely 2024 opponent, defeated in multiple states.
Obama lends the older politician exuberance and a unwavering popularity with younger voters who lean left.
