Joe Biden Officially Announces Candidacy For President In Thursday Morning Video

This will be his third attempt for the candidacy, after previous campaigns in 1988 and 2008.

Specifically, he points to the events in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 and how President Trump's response proved that we were now in a "battle for the soul of this nation."

"He said there were quote some very fine people on both sides. With those words, the President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime."

"The core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that has made America, America, is at stake. That's why today I'm announcing my candidacy for President of the United States."

Opinions are mixed as to whether Biden has the best chance of defeating Trump or if recent scandals have marred him, but in a poll conducted April 24, then-potential candidate Biden was ahead of all of his Democratic rivals and President Trump.