Will Joe Biden run for president in 2024?

President Joe Biden will probably announce in the next couple of months that he will run for a second presidential term in 2024. Were there clues in his State of the Union speech about his re-election campaign?

The State of the Union address is an opportunity for the president to lay out his legislative programme for the coming year. In Mr Biden's speech on Tuesday, he also sounded as though he was making the case for his 2024 run, and made it clear he has no plan to cool down his political ambitions, despite lukewarm polling.

As he rattled off his list of achievements and laid out his plans for the future, we got a preview of what his campaign platform could be.

Mr Biden had more to boast about in 2022 than many would have predicted, after his difficult first year in the White House.

Some of the achievements he is claiming are economic: more jobs created in two years than any other president has created in four years; unemployment at the lowest rate in half a century.

Although the bounce back from the pandemic lay-offs began under his predecessor, Donald Trump.

He spoke of legislative successes, too. In his speech, he touted passing a huge infrastructure bill, that will help rebuild crumbling roads and bridges across America, by forging cross-party support.

Then there were his climate measures that will encourage the production of clean energy, and tax breaks that will encourage the production of semiconductor chips in America, to reduce reliance on China.

Add to that the much better-than expected-results for Democrats in last year's midterm elections and you can see why Mr Biden feels he is a good position to win a second term.

Most importantly, he doesn't have any serious challengers for the nomination. No other senior Democrats would dare put their names forward as potential candidates if the president says he is running again.

And yet there are also serious weaknesses too.

A recent ABC-Washington Post poll that asked voters about a possible Biden vs Trump rematch gave Trump a 48% to 45% advantage. That's within the margin of error but still concerning for Democrats.

"Two years is forever and it's just one poll, but if he's faring this poorly after a string of wins, that should be worrisome," tweeted Julian Castro, a former Obama cabinet member.

Other surveys suggest the prospect of a Biden candidacy does not excite voters.