At 72, Donald Trump said he felt "young and dynamic" to beat Joe Biden

"I feel like a young man, I'm so young, I can not believe it … I'm a young and dynamic man," said Donald Trump. after the question of a reporter in the gardens of the White House. Republican Then he smiled and questioned the state of his Democratic presidential candidate, Biden, who at 76 took him to four years. "I'm looking at Joe, I do not know anything about him, I do not know anything …", he insisted ironically.

Finally, he lowered his voice and said that he would never say that someone is too old to be president.

Former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden announced Thursday his candidacy for the White House, posing as a defender of the fundamental values ​​of the United States against Donald Trump, accused of having changed the "character" of the country. "The fundamental values ​​of this country (…) our position in the world (…) everything that it has done in the United States is at stake, which is why today I'm announcing my candidacy for the presidency of the United States, "wrote Biden on Twitter.

"If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, it will fundamentally and forever change the character of this country," he warned in an online video that was Senator and Vice President for eight years at White House Barack. Obama

The president was quick to react: he insulted Biden on Twitter, his favorite media, questioning the mental capacity of his rival. "Welcome to the Joe the Sleeper race, I just hope you have the intelligence, which has always been in doubt, to carry out a primary campaign," he wrote.

Biden's candidacy puts an end to months of expectations and includes him in a voluminous list of 20 Democratic Party candidates: a record number for a group that also has unprecedented diversity.

Thanks, in particular, to his high reputation and his image as a unifying and moderate leader, the 76-year-old veteran Democratic politician dominated for months the principle of the election campaign to get the Democratic nomination.

After two unsuccessful attempts in 1988 and 2008, and after refraining from participating in the 2016 presidential elections, greatly affected by the death of one of his sons, Joe Biden left the suspension During months. At that time, his advantage in the race was reduced, in front of a panorama in which new faces of politics – many of them very young – distinguished themselves, like the moderate candidate Pete Buttigieg, mayor of the city. Indiana, for 37 years.

Faced with controversy, he promised "to be more attentive" to the new social norms that emerged after the earthquake that marked the #MeToo harbadment movement, but he did not apologize.

According to the RealClearPolitics survey, Biden is the favorite to win the nomination of his party with 29.3%, followed by Bernie Sanders, the presidential candidate in 2016, who enjoys a 23% support .

During his political career, Biden pointed out his modest origins in the working clbad of Pennsylvania, in which he will travel Monday for a first election rally. Its undeniable popularity within the working clbad, despite its long history of almost half a century in politics, could be a vital advantage for the old industrial strongholds that privileged Donald Trump in 2016.

He is also very popular among the Democratic base, especially among the older, more moderate voters, as well as blacks, whose mobilization could be the key to polls.

However, his candidacy does not arouse the same enthusiasm among the members of the organization Justice Democrats, which is part of the far left of the party. "The old guard of the Democratic Party has failed to stop Trump, you can not count on it to lead the fight" against the Republican, reacted the group.

(With information from AP, EFE and AFP)