After weeks of “will he” or “won’t he,” President Joe Biden officially announced that he is a candidate for reelection in 2024 as he asks voters to give him more time to “finish the job.”

Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a possible second term, does not appear to face any opposition from Democrats in his quest for the repeat nomination. But he will face questions not only about his age, but also his accomplishments from voters young and old, Democrat and Republican, in a bitterly-divided nation.

His formal announcement was released in the early hours of Tuesday morning in a three-minute video that landed on the four-year anniversary of his declaration for the White House in 2019.

“I said we are in a battle for the soul of America, and we still are,” Biden said. “The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. More rights or fewer.”

Public opinion polls have not been overwhelmingly supportive of Biden, including those that show a good percentage of Democratic voters who would prefer he not run again.

But with the specter of former president Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination and setting up a potential rematch of the tumultuous 2020 campaign, many Democrats may see Biden as the party’s best hope of rebuffing Trump again.

“Freedom. Personal freedom is fundamental to who we are as Americans. There’s nothing more important. Nothing more sacred,” Biden said in the launch video, depicting Republican extremists as trying to roll back access to abortion, cut Social Security, limit voting rights and ban books they disagree with. “Around the country, MAGA extremists are lining up to take those bedrock freedoms away.”

“This is not a time to be complacent,” Biden added. “That’s why I’m running for reelection.”

In the video, Biden speaks over brief clips and photographs of key moments in his presidency, snapshots of diverse Americans and flashes of outspoken Republican foes, including Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. He exhorts supporters that “this is our moment” to “defend democracy. Stand up for our personal freedoms. Stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights.”