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    Joe Biden enters the presidential race, testing whether his time has come — or come and gone

    by Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Apr 25, 2019 6 minutes

    WASHINGTON - When Joe Biden ran for president for the first time, 30 years ago, the World Wide Web had not yet been invented. When he ran again 10 years ago, Twitter was in its infancy.

    Now, with his announcement Thursday that he is launching a third bid for the presidency at the age of 76, Biden is asking Democrats to decide if his time has come at last, or if it has come and gone for a man who has been in politics for nearly half a century.

    In a video announcing his candidacy posted on social media, Biden delivered a warning about the risks of reelecting President Trump, focusing on the incumbent more directly than most of his Democratic rivals have done.

    "We are in the battle for the soul of this nation," Biden said in the three-minute video, in which he linked Trump to the violent neo-Nazi demonstration in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017.

    "If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he

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