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Former U.S vice-president Joe Biden is launching his 3^rd attempt at securing the Democratic Party nomination to run for president in 2020 U.S general election. Reuters reported that he will announce his bid on Thursday. He is then expected to make his first public appearance as a candidate during the next week at an event in Pittsburgh featuring union members, a key constituency.

Biden enters a crowded Democrat field all hoping to take on Trump in 2020. His move comes after months of speculation as to whether he’d run or not. He will take on 20 other hopefuls, but for now, he leads the pack, opinion polls show. His candidacy will face numerous questions, including whether he is too old and too centrist for a Democratic Party increasingly propelled by its more vocal liberal wing.

More questions have arisen about his propensity for touching and kissing strangers at political events, with several women coming forward in recent weeks to say he had made them feel uncomfortable. Biden struggled in his response to the concerns, at times joking about his behavior. He ultimately apologized and said he recognized standards for personal conduct had evolved in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

Most believe the 76-year-old is also offering U.S voters experience and the promise of exposing the scandals and chicanery of Trump’s administration. Commentators have said among the US’s working population in the US, Biden’s experience and dignity could be the antidote to Trump’s angry outbursts. Last month, Biden said, “We can’t be divided by race, religion, by tribe. In America, everybody gets a shot”.

In spite of to win over Democrats in his previous attempts to secure the nomination in 1988 and 1998.  Biden is in a strong position in national polls and early voting states. He will run as a centrist Obama-Biden Democrat anchored by strong union support. He will reportedly attack Trump as a populist and a friend of Wall Street bosses who hit the jackpot with U.S tax laws. Biden called Trump a tragedy in 2 acts in a speech to union members in April.