Earlier this morning, President Joe Biden announced via an online video that he will indeed be a candidate for reelection in 2024.
In the video, CNN reports, the president again invoked a message he used in the 2020 race.
Biden framed next year’s contest as a fight against Republican extremism, implicitly arguing he needed more time to fully realize his vow to restore the nation’s character.
“When I ran for president four years ago, I said we are in a battle for the soul of America. And we still are,” he said in the video, which opened with images of the January 6, 2021, insurrection and abortion rights activists protesting at the US Supreme Court.
“The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. More rights or fewer,” Biden says in voiceover narration. “I know what I want the answer to be and I think you do too. This is not a time to be complacent. That’s why I’m running for reelection.”
In response, the Republican National Committee (RNC) posted an ad generated by AI (artificial intelligence), according to Axios.
The Republican National Committee responded to President Biden’s re-election announcement Tuesday with an AI-generated video depicting a dystopian version of the future if he is re-elected.
- The video features AI-created images appearing to show Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrating at an Election Day party, followed by a series of imagined reports about international and domestic crises that the ad suggests would follow a Biden victory in 2024.
However, the Republican effort to troll Biden’s announcement got an emphatic thumbs down on social media, where many commenters noted that it was more applicable to failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump.
